Bourgs sur Colagne

Lozère · CC du Gévaudan · INSEE 48099

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

Partly served 49.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 69 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bourgs sur Colagne (INSEE 48099) is in Lozère (48), part of CC du Gévaudan. Population 2,091 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2016-01-01 from 1 former commune: Chirac (48049). ^[3]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/48099-bourgs-sur-colagne

Vitality score

Vitality score 49.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 69 % of the 9,314 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	0.34	25	8.55
Social	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.78	10	7.77
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.68	10	6.76
Housing mix	0.71	5	3.56

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 2 of 3

Lodging 1 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (L'EPI DE LA COLAGNE · AU BOULANGER CHANTANT). ^[4,5]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[4,5]

2 × Restaurant (L' IMPROVISTE · L'ENDROIT BSC). ^[4,5]

1 × Café / bar (BAR TABAC URBAIN V). ^[5]

3 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE CLAUDE ERIGNAC · ECOLE PRIMAIRE MARCEAU CRESPIN · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINTE ANGELE). ^[4]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (NATHALIE MASSON, MÉDECIN). ^[4]

2 × Post office / agence postale (LE MONASTIER PIN MORIES AP · CHIRAC AP). ^[4]

2 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE RENÉ GROUSSET (LE MONASTIER · BIBLIOTHÈQUE RENÉ JAUDON (CHIRAC). ^[4]

2 × Hairdresser (COIFFURE NICOL'ANGE · BARBE A PAPA MIXTE). ^[4,5]

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

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LE SOLEIL LEVANT). ^[4,5]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie), 1 × Campsite.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	L'EPI DE LA COLAGNE · AU BOULANGER CHANTANT	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	2	L' IMPROVISTE · L'ENDROIT BSC	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [4,5]
Café / bar	1	BAR TABAC URBAIN V	INSEE SIRENE 1 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	3	ECOLE PRIMAIRE CLAUDE ERIGNAC · ECOLE PRIMAIRE MARCEAU CRESPIN · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINTE ANGELE	INSEE BPE 3 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	NATHALIE MASSON, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	2	LE MONASTIER PIN MORIES AP · CHIRAC AP	INSEE BPE 2 [4]
Library	2	BIBLIOTHÈQUE RENÉ GROUSSET (LE MONASTIER · BIBLIOTHÈQUE RENÉ JAUDON (CHIRAC	INSEE BPE 2 [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	2	COIFFURE NICOL'ANGE · BARBE A PAPA MIXTE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	1	CAMPING LE SOLEIL LEVANT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,481 peak 2017: 2,137 2023: 2,091 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,107 (2012) → 2,091 (2023): -0.8 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,778 (1990) → 2,091 (2023): 17.6 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,128, of which 14.4 % second homes and 7.5 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP Food shop — 4.4 km NEPharmacy — 5.1 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 (Bourgs sur Colagne): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Marvejols): 4.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Bourgs sur Colagne): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Marvejols): 5.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Bourgs sur Colagne): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21.3

Days at or below 0 °C 35.4

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 35 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CHIRAC weather station, 3.8 km away at 1,000 m; the village itself is at 617 m. ^[11]

The village sits 383 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 LE BUISSON, 13.3 km away at 1,088 m, over 19 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 471 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 1,001 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 8.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CHIRAC, 3.8 km away at 1,000 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 — 48099/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48099/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48099/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48099/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 48099
INSEE BPE 2025 — 48092
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
Berric	56	565 km NW	2,129	48.5	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Larressore	64	396 km W	2,163	55.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 0 %
Remouillé	44	457 km NW	1,932	53.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 96 %
Givrand	85	466 km NW	2,205	46	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Vesseaux	07	95 km E	2,069	59	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 77 % · humidity 86 %
Nouan-le-Fuzelier	41	349 km N	2,272	48.6	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 68 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Vesseaux	07	95 km E	2,069	59	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 77 % · humidity 86 %
Nouan-le-Fuzelier	41	349 km N	2,272	48.6	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 68 %
Larressore	64	396 km W	2,163	55.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 0 %
Remouillé	44	457 km NW	1,932	53.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 96 %
Givrand	85	466 km NW	2,205	46	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Berric	56	565 km NW	2,129	48.5	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Bourgs sur Colagne'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
Aubigné-Racan	72	421 km NW	2,158	43	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Marmagne	18	297 km N	1,963	51	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
La Canourgue	48	9.8 km S	2,074	63	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Nalliers	85	398 km NW	2,389	58.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Peaugres	07	144 km NE	2,385	62.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Avanton	86	331 km NW	2,226	40.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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