Bouzel

Puy-de-Dôme · CC Billom Communauté · INSEE 63049

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

Few services 35.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 63 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bouzel (INSEE 63049) is in Puy-de-Dôme (63), part of CC Billom Communauté. Population 703 (2023). ^[1]

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

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 35.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 63 % of the 16,372 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.88	10	8.78
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.69

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 0 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (SARL LEBRAT ET FILS). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JORGE FERREIRA-BERNARDES, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BOUZEL). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	SARL LEBRAT ET FILS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	JORGE FERREIRA-BERNARDES, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BOUZEL	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 337 peak 2017: 727 2023: 703 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 706 (2012) → 703 (2023): -0.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 510 (1990) → 703 (2023): 37.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 327, of which 3.1 % second homes and 8.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP Food shop — 2.4 km WPharmacy — 2.4 km W 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 (Bouzel): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Vertaizon): 2.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Bouzel): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Vertaizon): 2.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Bouzel): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 32.2

Days at or below 0 °C 41

Muggy days a summer 1

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 32 days a year at or above 30 °C and 41 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the FAYET-LE-CHATEA weather station, 12.4 km away at 585 m; the village itself is at 323 m. ^[10]

The village sits 262 m below 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at CLERMONT-FD, 13 km away at 331 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 724 mm of rain a year, spread over 105 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at JOZE - BOURG, 10.2 km away at 315 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 — 63049/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63049/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63049/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63049/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63049
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63453
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
Essertines-en-Châtelneuf	42	56 km E	667	34.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 51 % · humidity 86 %
Dangolsheim	67	442 km NE	681	31.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Trèves	69	109 km E	712	32.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 68 % · humidity 79 %
La Charmée	71	155 km NE	681	28.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Vallan	89	219 km N	674	24.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Montbrun-Lauragais	31	294 km SW	730	33	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Essertines-en-Châtelneuf	42	56 km E	667	34.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 51 % · humidity 86 %
Trèves	69	109 km E	712	32.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 68 % · humidity 79 %
La Charmée	71	155 km NE	681	28.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Vallan	89	219 km N	674	24.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Montbrun-Lauragais	31	294 km SW	730	33	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 71 %
Dangolsheim	67	442 km NE	681	31.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Bouzel'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
Moissieu-sur-Dolon	38	137 km E	747	40.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Marches	26	166 km SE	866	30.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Trespoux-Rassiels	46	215 km SW	845	31.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Beaussais-Vitré	79	274 km W	923	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Lunan	46	162 km SW	625	39.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Jugeals-Nazareth	19	158 km SW	943	28.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

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