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Rives

Lot-et-Garonne · CC des Bastides en Haut Agenais Périgord · INSEE 47223

A food shop, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink.

No daily shops 12.5/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 26 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Rives (INSEE 47223) is in Lot-et-Garonne (47), part of CC des Bastides en Haut Agenais Périgord. Population 194 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). [2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/47223-rives

Vitality score

Vitality score 12.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 26 % of the 15,809 communes of a similar size.

Compare this with communes of a similar size. The score measures how well a place is served relative to its own size band, and larger communes score higher as a rule — so it reads meaningfully against another village, and misleadingly against a town.

Measured but not scored in this model: Market. See the methodology for why.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0.21255.27
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.37103.7
Housing mix0.3351.67

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 0 of 3
Health 0 of 4
Public services 0 of 1
Culture 0 of 2
Sport 0 of 2
Everyday services 0 of 3
Lodging 1 of 2
One square per service type, shaded by how many: none, one, a few, five or more. A blank square means none was counted — the sources do not distinguish “none here” from “not counted”.

A food shop, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink. [3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (CAKES & VEGGIES). [3]

3 × Campsite (HOMAIR VACANCES SAS · CAMPING DE BERGOUGNE). [3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Campsite.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)1CAKES & VEGGIESINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE SIRENE 4 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite3HOMAIR VACANCES SAS · CAMPING DE BERGOUGNEINSEE SIRENE 3 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 228 peak 2007: 236 2023: 194 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 236 (2012) → 194 (2023): -17.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 223 (1990) → 194 (2023): -13 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 159, of which 33.3 % second homes and 0.6 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

10 km20 kmPrimary school — 0.6 km S (Villeréal)Bakery — 0.8 km S (Villeréal)Food shop — 0.9 km S (Villeréal)GP — 0.9 km SE (Villeréal)Pharmacy — 11.9 km W (Castillonnès)
Primary school — 0.6 km SBakery — 0.8 km SFood shop — 0.9 km SGP — 0.9 km SEPharmacy — 11.9 km W Straight-line, from the mairie, in the direction given. Services in the same town share a spoke. Distance is not travel time: a pass or an estuary can double it.

Bakery (Villeréal): 0.8 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Villeréal): 0.9 km to the south (straight line). [8]

GP (Villeréal): 0.9 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Castillonnès): 11.9 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Villeréal): 0.6 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Each track runs from the 5th to the 95th percentile of the 34,141 communes with that measurement; the tick is the median. A value beyond either end sits at the end and is marked ▸.

An average of 32 days a year at or above 30 °C and 18 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the LACAPELLE-BIRON weather station, 14.2 km away at 235 m; the village itself is at 96 m. [10]

The village sits 139 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 4.94 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at LACAPELLE-BIRON, 14.2 km away at 235 m, over 20 summers. [10]

That station sits 139 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [10]

An average of 825 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at DOUDRAC, 5.6 km away at 95 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47223/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47223/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47223/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47223/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 47324
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 47057
  10. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

Villages like this one

Matched on size, density, second homes and which everyday shops and services are present — not on the score, so a village of the same kind that is doing better or worse shows up rather than being hidden.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Félix-de-Pallières30263 km E19416.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 39 % · humidity 57 %
Vosbles-Valfin39418 km NE18515.8No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 0 % · humidity 36 %
Sarrogna39430 km NE22820Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 14 % · humidity 36 %
Chitray36227 km N17214.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 64 % · humidity 57 %
Baleyssagues4747 km W18815.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Fransèches23184 km NE24013.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 32 % · humidity 43 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Baleyssagues4747 km W18815.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Fransèches23184 km NE24013.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 32 % · humidity 43 %
Chitray36227 km N17214.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 64 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Félix-de-Pallières30263 km E19416.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 39 % · humidity 57 %
Vosbles-Valfin39418 km NE18515.8No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 0 % · humidity 36 %
Sarrogna39430 km NE22820Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 14 % · humidity 36 %

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…and in much the same climate

The same match on size and services, narrowed to communes whose summers, winters and summer humidity are all close to Rives's. All three are required, so this section is absent for the 11.8 % of communes with no humidity station near enough to measure: two temperature axes alone cannot tell a muggy coast from a dry one.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Martial-Viveyrol2485 km N1843.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Esclottes4748 km W1708.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Nanteuil-Auriac-de-Bourzac2490 km NW2345.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Maupas32113 km SW19822.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Lasserrade32126 km SW1777.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Larzac2424 km NE14511.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %