Saint-Sernin

Lot-et-Garonne · CC du Pays de Duras · INSEE 47278

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

Few services 37.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 81 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Sernin (INSEE 47278) is in Lot-et-Garonne (47), part of CC du Pays de Duras. Population 454 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 37.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 81 % of the 17,939 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.

Component	Value (0–1)	Weight	Contribution
Daily food	0	25	0
Social	0.75	20	14.97
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.84	10	8.35
Housing mix	0.49	5	2.44

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

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

2 × Restaurant (LE VINTAGE GOURMAND · D.B.F). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 1 × Restaurant.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	2	LE VINTAGE GOURMAND · D.B.F	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 414 2023: 454 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 426 (2012) → 454 (2023): 6.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 340 (1990) → 454 (2023): 33.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 324, of which 25.6 % second homes and 6.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 3.1 km NFood shop — 4.9 km NEBakery — 5.0 km EPharmacy — 13.4 km N 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 (Saint-Jean-de-Duras): 5 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Loubès-Bernac): 4.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Villeneuve-de-Duras): 3.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Pineuilh): 13.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Saint-Sernin): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 32.7

Days at or below 0 °C 30.9

Muggy days a summer 7.4

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 33 days a year at or above 30 °C and 31 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the DURAS weather station, 3.8 km away at 112 m; the village itself is at 92 m. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at MAUVEZIN-SUR-GUPIE, 17.7 km away at 95 m, over 11 summers. ^[13]

An average of 794 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at DURAS, 3.8 km away at 112 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47278/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47278/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47278/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47278/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 47247
INSEE BPE 2025 — 47151
INSEE BPE 2025 — 47321
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33324
INSEE BPE 2025 — 47278
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.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Mars-sur-Colmont	53	414 km N	440	31.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 88 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Germain-du-Seudre	17	114 km NW	407	33.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Clussais-la-Pommeraie	79	165 km N	562	29.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 81 % · humidity 71 %
Servant	63	263 km NE	558	34.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Lestrade-et-Thouels	12	205 km E	440	21.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 46 % · winter 80 %
Locarn	22	489 km NW	434	21.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 89 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Germain-du-Seudre	17	114 km NW	407	33.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Clussais-la-Pommeraie	79	165 km N	562	29.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 81 % · humidity 71 %
Lestrade-et-Thouels	12	205 km E	440	21.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 46 % · winter 80 %
Servant	63	263 km NE	558	34.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Mars-sur-Colmont	53	414 km N	440	31.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 88 % · humidity 57 %
Locarn	22	489 km NW	434	21.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 89 % · humidity 57 %

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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-Sernin'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.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Ambialet	81	190 km SE	471	39.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Sagelat	24	62 km E	318	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Beylongue	40	122 km SW	400	28.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Aubin	47	55 km SE	393	37.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Le Verdier	81	151 km SE	225	32	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Borrèze	24	95 km E	354	33.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %

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