Brion

Lozère · CC des Hautes Terres de l'Aubrac · INSEE 48031

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

No daily shops 10.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 33 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Brion (INSEE 48031) is in Lozère (48), part of CC des Hautes Terres de l'Aubrac. Population 88 (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 10.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 33 % of the 9,350 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.27	10	2.72
Housing mix	0	5	0

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 × Café / bar. ^[4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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

Type	Count	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 [3,4]
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	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Café / bar	1	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [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 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: 175 2023: 88 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 96 (2012) → 88 (2023): -8.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 114 (1990) → 88 (2023): -22.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 104, of which 50 % second homes and 13.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 7.9 km NEBakery — 8.0 km NEPrimary school — 8.0 km NEGP — 8.1 km NEPharmacy — 8.1 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 (Fournels): 8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Fournels): 7.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Fournels): 8.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Fournels): 8.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Fournels): 8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 3.5▸

Days at or below 0 °C 106.3▸

Muggy days a summer 0

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 4 days a year at or above 30 °C and 106 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the FAU DE PEYRE weather station, 11.2 km away at 1,163 m; the village itself is at 1,126 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at LE BUISSON, 18.9 km away at 1,088 m, over 19 summers. ^[9]

An average of 875 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at BRION, 1.8 km away at 1,217 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48031/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48031/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48031/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48031/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 48064
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
Pradines	19	124 km NW	92	10.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 85 %
Saint-Hippolyte	15	60 km NW	99	10	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Clément	07	97 km E	90	11.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Bellecombe-Tarendol	26	186 km E	77	12.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 32 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Maurice-près-Crocq	23	137 km NW	104	11.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Pébrac	43	46 km NE	113	9.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Pébrac	43	46 km NE	113	9.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Hippolyte	15	60 km NW	99	10	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Clément	07	97 km E	90	11.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Pradines	19	124 km NW	92	10.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 85 %
Saint-Maurice-près-Crocq	23	137 km NW	104	11.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Bellecombe-Tarendol	26	186 km E	77	12.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 32 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Brion'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
Saint-Hippolyte	15	60 km NW	99	10	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Clément	07	97 km E	90	11.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Étienne-du-Vigan	43	61 km E	95	4.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Bonneval	43	81 km NE	92	13.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Chanterelle	15	72 km N	99	1.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Freycenet-la-Cuche	43	82 km E	105	10.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

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