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Saint-Martin-de-Villeréal

Lot-et-Garonne · CC des Bastides en Haut Agenais Périgord · INSEE 47256

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

No daily shops 15.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 62 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Martin-de-Villeréal (INSEE 47256) is in Lot-et-Garonne (47), part of CC des Bastides en Haut Agenais Périgord. Population 103 (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/47256-saint-martin-de-villereal

Vitality score

Vitality score 15.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 62 % of the 10,844 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
Social0.32206.32
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.42104.2
Housing mix0.5552.76

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 1 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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]
Restaurant1INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 133 2023: 103 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 124 (2012) → 103 (2023): -16.9 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 112 (1990) → 103 (2023): -8 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 76, of which 22.4 % second homes and 10.5 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 4.8 km W (Rives)GP — 5.9 km W (Villeréal)Primary school — 6.1 km W (Villeréal)Food shop — 6.2 km W (Villeréal)Pharmacy — 7.1 km NE (Monpazier)
Bakery — 4.8 km WGP — 5.9 km WPrimary school — 6.1 km WFood shop — 6.2 km WPharmacy — 7.1 km NE 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 (Rives): 4.8 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Villeréal): 6.2 km to the west (straight line). [9]

GP (Villeréal): 5.9 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Monpazier): 7.1 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Villeréal): 6.1 km to the west (straight line). [9]

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 49 days at or below 0 °C, over 14 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the LACAPELLE-BIRON-PAILLOLES weather station, 8.5 km away at 195 m; the village itself is at 156 m. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at LACAPELLE-BIRON, 9.1 km away at 235 m, over 20 summers. [11]

That station sits 79 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [11]

An average of 938 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at LACAPELLE-BIRON-PAILLOLES, 8.5 km away at 195 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

What property sold for

No price figures: fewer than five comparable sales were registered here between 2021 and 2025. A median of two sales is not a median. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47256/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47256/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47256/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47256/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 47223
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 47324
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 24280
  11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
  12. 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
Sincey-lès-Rouvray21402 km NE10317.8No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 85 % · humidity 57 %
La Baleine50503 km N10515No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 53 % · humidity 64 %
Châteauneuf-de-Bordette26347 km E10120.4Few servicesWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 89 % · humidity 57 %
Sarry71317 km NE10314.3No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 96 % · humidity 57 %
La Buxerette36220 km N10312.4No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %
La Boulaye71347 km NE10212.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 69 % · humidity 64 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
La Buxerette36220 km N10312.4No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %
Sarry71317 km NE10314.3No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 96 % · humidity 57 %
La Boulaye71347 km NE10212.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 69 % · humidity 64 %
Châteauneuf-de-Bordette26347 km E10120.4Few servicesWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 89 % · humidity 57 %
Sincey-lès-Rouvray21402 km NE10317.8No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 85 % · humidity 57 %
La Baleine50503 km N10515No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 53 % · humidity 64 %

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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-Martin-de-Villeréal'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
Loubers81108 km SE9520Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Villebramar4730 km SW10915.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Cécile-du-Cayrou81106 km SE12614.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Cambayrac4644 km SE13619.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Estigarde40101 km SW10010.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Bachas31156 km S9021.3Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %