Naussac-Fontanes

Lozère · CC du Haut Allier Margeride · INSEE 48105

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

Few services 31.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 74 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Naussac-Fontanes (INSEE 48105) is in Lozère (48), part of CC du Haut Allier Margeride. Population 372 (2023). ^[1]

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

Commune nouvelle formed on 2016-01-01 from 1 former commune: Fontanes (48062). ^[3]

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/48105-naussac-fontanes

Vitality score

Vitality score 31.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 74 % of the 18,071 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.41	5	2.03

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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 1 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[4,5]

2 × Restaurant (L'OASIS · LE BISTROT DU LAC). ^[4,5]

1 × Café / bar (LE IX BAR). ^[5]

1 × Swimming pool (AIRE SPORTIVE DU LAC DE NAUSSAC). ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[4,5]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	2	L'OASIS · LE BISTROT DU LAC	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,5]
Café / bar	1	LE IX BAR	INSEE SIRENE 1 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	1	AIRE SPORTIVE DU LAC DE NAUSSAC	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [4,5]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
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: 270 2023: 372 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 338 (2012) → 372 (2023): 10.1 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 215 (1990) → 372 (2023): 73 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 269, of which 29.7 % second homes and 4.1 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune GP Bakery — 1.2 km EFood shop — 1.3 km EPrimary school — 1.3 km EPharmacy — 1.4 km E 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 (Langogne): 1.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Langogne): 1.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Langogne): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Langogne): 1.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Langogne): 1.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12.8

Days at or below 0 °C 107.7▸

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 108 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the NAUSSAC weather station, 2.5 km away at 967 m; the village itself is at 977 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at NAUSSAC, 2.5 km away at 967 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

An average of 804 mm of rain a year, spread over 101 days — about 8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at NAUSSAC, 2.5 km away at 967 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48105/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48105/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48105/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48105/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 48080
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
Autoire	46	160 km W	376	27.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
Le Beaucet	84	131 km SE	397	31.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-des-Olmes	63	89 km N	313	28.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Loup-des-Vignes	45	384 km N	386	24.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 23 %
Chauzon	07	49 km SE	422	30.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 8 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Alban-d'Hurtières	73	209 km NE	404	30.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 42 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Chauzon	07	49 km SE	422	30.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 8 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Martin-des-Olmes	63	89 km N	313	28.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Le Beaucet	84	131 km SE	397	31.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Autoire	46	160 km W	376	27.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Alban-d'Hurtières	73	209 km NE	404	30.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 42 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Loup-des-Vignes	45	384 km N	386	24.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 23 %

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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 Naussac-Fontanes'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
La Croix-aux-Mines	88	460 km NE	448	13.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Bluffy	74	225 km NE	395	23.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Le Noyer	05	172 km E	310	27.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Poligny	05	175 km E	338	27.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Mestes	19	147 km NW	341	36	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Bonnet-le-Troncy	69	158 km N	307	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

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