Les Salces

Lozère · CC Aubrac Lot Causses Tarn · INSEE 48187

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

Few services 24.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 94 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Les Salces (INSEE 48187) is in Lozère (48), part of CC Aubrac Lot Causses Tarn. Population 83 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/48187-les-salces

Vitality score

Vitality score 24.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 94 % of the 8,780 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	0.81	20	16.14
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.43	10	4.33
Housing mix	0	5	0

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 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]

4 × Restaurant (AUBERGE DU RADAL · L' AUTHENTIC · RELAIS DES LACS). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (AUBERGE DU RADAL). ^[4]

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. ^[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 [3,4]
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	4	AUBERGE DU RADAL · L' AUTHENTIC · RELAIS DES LACS	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	AUBERGE DU RADAL	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: 184 2023: 83 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 99 (2012) → 83 (2023): -16.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 89 (1990) → 83 (2023): -6.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 109, of which 63.3 % second homes and 2.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.2 km SWBakery — 6.2 km SFood shop — 6.2 km SGP — 6.2 km SPharmacy — 6.2 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 (Saint-Germain-du-Teil): 6.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Germain-du-Teil): 6.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Germain-du-Teil): 6.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Germain-du-Teil): 6.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Les Hermaux): 3.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 7.1

Days at or below 0 °C 72.7

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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 73 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CHIRAC weather station, 4.4 km away at 1,000 m; the village itself is at 1,081 m. ^[10]

The village sits 81 m above 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. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at LE BUISSON, 12.6 km away at 1,088 m, over 19 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,294 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 11 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LES SALCES-FROMENTAL, 0.6 km away at 1,075 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 — 48187/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48187/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48187/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48187/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 48156
INSEE BPE 2025 — 48073
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
Pietraserena	2B	561 km SE	62	19.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 30 % · humidity 100 %
Portet-d'Aspet	31	256 km SW	63	18.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 72 %
Beaulieu	15	115 km NW	84	9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 77 %
Saint-Alban-des-Villards	73	258 km E	92	25.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 50 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Arcons-de-Barges	43	69 km NE	119	20.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Paul-de-Salers	15	84 km NW	105	16.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Arcons-de-Barges	43	69 km NE	119	20.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Paul-de-Salers	15	84 km NW	105	16.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Beaulieu	15	115 km NW	84	9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 77 %
Portet-d'Aspet	31	256 km SW	63	18.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 72 %
Saint-Alban-des-Villards	73	258 km E	92	25.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 50 % · humidity 100 %
Pietraserena	2B	561 km SE	62	19.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 30 % · 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 Les Salces'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 Garde	38	235 km E	100	19.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Freychenet	09	215 km SW	82	8.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
La Rochette	07	95 km NE	63	13.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jeure-d'Andaure	07	117 km NE	104	14.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Lamontélarié	81	111 km SW	58	16.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Savennes	63	129 km NW	96	11.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

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