Bel-Air-Val-d'Ance

Lozère · CC du Haut Allier Margeride · INSEE 48038

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Partly served 52.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 95 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bel-Air-Val-d'Ance (INSEE 48038) is in Lozère (48), part of CC du Haut Allier Margeride. Population 532 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2019-01-01 from 1 former commune: Saint-Symphorien (48184). ^[3]

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 52.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 95 % of the 17,624 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	0.5	25	12.47
Social	0.79	20	15.82
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.36	10	3.61
Housing mix	0.05	5	0.24

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[4,5]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE FOURNIL D'AUTREFOIS). ^[4,5]

2 × Butcher (boucherie) (MAISON VIGNAL · BOUCHERIE DU HAUT ALLIER). ^[4,5]

1 × Restaurant (L'ESSENTIEL). ^[4,5]

3 × Café / bar (MODERN ' HOTEL · LE CYRANO). ^[5]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE GUY MARTIN). ^[4]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DU CHATEAU). ^[4,5]

1 × Post office / agence postale (CHAMBON LE CHATEAU LPA AP). ^[4]

1 × Library (BEL AIR VAL D'ANCE). ^[4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste). ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LE FOURNIL D'AUTREFOIS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	2	MAISON VIGNAL · BOUCHERIE DU HAUT ALLIER	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	1	L'ESSENTIEL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Café / bar	3	MODERN ' HOTEL · LE CYRANO	INSEE SIRENE 3 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE GUY MARTIN	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DU CHATEAU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	CHAMBON LE CHATEAU LPA AP	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	1	BEL AIR VAL D'ANCE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,041 2023: 532 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 535 (2012) → 532 (2023): -0.6 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 618 (1990) → 532 (2023): -13.9 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 548, of which 47.6 % second homes and 4.9 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 7.9 km S 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 (Bel-Air-Val-d'Ance): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Bel-Air-Val-d'Ance): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Grandrieu): 7.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Bel-Air-Val-d'Ance): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Bel-Air-Val-d'Ance): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 4.9

Days at or below 0 °C 105▸

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 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 105 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the GRANDRIEU weather station, 8.3 km away at 1,163 m; the village itself is at 1,015 m. ^[11]

The village sits 148 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.7 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at NAUSSAC, 17.7 km away at 967 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

An average of 855 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at GRANDRIEU, 8.3 km away at 1,163 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48038/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48038/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48038/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48038/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 48038
INSEE BPE 2025 — 48070
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
Pradelles	43	20 km SE	531	61	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Yport	76	599 km NW	652	55.8	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 0 %
Saint-Firmin	05	187 km E	468	57.8	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Le Hohwald	67	484 km NE	521	47.7	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Petreto-Bicchisano	2A	549 km SE	572	71.5	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 13 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Coucouron	07	25 km E	777	62.1	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Pradelles	43	20 km SE	531	61	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Coucouron	07	25 km E	777	62.1	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Firmin	05	187 km E	468	57.8	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Le Hohwald	67	484 km NE	521	47.7	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Petreto-Bicchisano	2A	549 km SE	572	71.5	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 13 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Yport	76	599 km NW	652	55.8	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 0 %

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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 Bel-Air-Val-d'Ance'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
Coucouron	07	25 km E	777	62.1	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Nasbinals	48	53 km SW	571	74	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Amant-Roche-Savine	63	80 km N	534	38.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-en-Vercors	26	139 km E	797	70.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Marcenat	15	83 km NW	508	41.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Bugeat	19	159 km NW	719	52.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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