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Saint-Léon

Lot-et-Garonne · CC du Confluent et des Coteaux de Prayssas · INSEE 47251

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 16.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 27 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Léon (INSEE 47251) is in Lot-et-Garonne (47), part of CC du Confluent et des Coteaux de Prayssas. Population 329 (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/47251-saint-leon

Vitality score

Vitality score 16.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 27 % of the 17,991 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 food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.96109.62
Housing mix0.8754.35

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), 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)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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]
Campsite0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 228 2023: 329 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 308 (2012) → 329 (2023): 6.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 225 (1990) → 329 (2023): 46.2 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 170, of which 6.5 % second homes and 12.4 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmBakery — 2.0 km E (Damazan)Food shop — 2.4 km E (Damazan)GP — 2.5 km E (Damazan)Pharmacy — 2.5 km E (Damazan)Primary school — 2.7 km E (Damazan)
Bakery — 2.0 km EFood shop — 2.4 km EGP — 2.5 km EPharmacy — 2.5 km EPrimary school — 2.7 km E 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 (Damazan): 2 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Damazan): 2.4 km to the east (straight line). [8]

GP (Damazan): 2.5 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Damazan): 2.5 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Damazan): 2.7 km to the east (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 49 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. [9]

Measured at the AIGUILLON weather station, 7.3 km away at 32 m; the village itself is at 73 m. [9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 8 days a summer. [9]

Humidity measured at FARGUES-SUR-OURBISE, 7.8 km away at 124 m, over 11 summers. [9]

That station sits 51 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [9]

An average of 787 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. [9]

Rainfall measured at VILLEFRANCHE QU, 3.8 km away at 100 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [9]

What property sold for

21 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 152,000 € — 875 € per m² of built surface. [10]

The median across Lot-et-Garonne is 1,182 € per m², so this commune sits below it. [10]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47251/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47251/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47251/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47251/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 47078
  9. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
  10. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Castagnac31148 km SE32517No daily shopsno figures
Layrac-sur-Tarn31117 km SE32011.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 84 %
Habloville61501 km N33614.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 80 % · humidity 50 %
Perquie4062 km SW34213.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Billancelles28472 km N31016.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 88 % · humidity 50 %
Boscamnant17104 km N33011No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 44 % · winter 96 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Perquie4062 km SW34213.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Boscamnant17104 km N33011No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 44 % · winter 96 %
Layrac-sur-Tarn31117 km SE32011.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 84 %
Castagnac31148 km SE32517No daily shopsno figures
Billancelles28472 km N31016.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 88 % · humidity 50 %
Habloville61501 km N33614.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 80 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Saint-Léon'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
Peyrière4732 km N29319.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Labrihe3277 km SE21216.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Léger475.9 km E17712.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Puysserampion4735 km N26517.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Sirac3286 km SE16416.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Armillac4732 km N20923.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %