Ayat-sur-Sioule

Identity

Ayat-sur-Sioule (INSEE 63025) is in Puy-de-Dôme (63), part of CC du Pays de Saint-Eloy. Population 138 (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/63025-ayat-sur-sioule

Vitality score

Vitality score 13.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 43 % of the 13,414 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.

Services

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. ^[3,4]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (YOUTIKA CHUM, MÉDECIN · BENEDICTE POUMAILLOUX, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 146 (2012) → 138 (2023): -5.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 134 (1990) → 138 (2023): 3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 126, of which 27.8 % second homes and 13.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Blot-l'Église): 5.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Gervais-d'Auvergne): 5.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Ayat-sur-Sioule): 1.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Gervais-d'Auvergne): 5.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Blot-l'Église): 5.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

An average of 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 94 days at or below 0 °C, over 12 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CHATEAUNEUF-LES weather station, 2.5 km away at 390 m; the village itself is at 556 m. ^[11]

The village sits 166 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 6.06 °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 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ST-GERVAIS-D AU, 6.8 km away at 705 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 149 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 859 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CHATEAUNEUF-LES, 2.5 km away at 390 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

What property sold for

18 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 93,175 € — 1,060 € per m² of built surface. ^[12]

The median across Puy-de-Dôme is 1,487 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[12]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63025/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63025/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63025/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63025/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 63043
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 63354
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 63025
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
12. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025