Briffons

Puy-de-Dôme · CC Chavanon Combrailles et Volcans · INSEE 63053

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

No daily shops 13.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 24 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Briffons (INSEE 63053) is in Puy-de-Dôme (63), part of CC Chavanon Combrailles et Volcans. Population 267 (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/63053-briffons

Vitality score

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

Confidence: high.

Better served than 24 % of the 17,524 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.22	10	2.24
Housing mix	0.55	5	2.76

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 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”.

A food shop, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3]

1 × Library (DÉPÔT LECTURE BRIFFONS). ^[3]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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)	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	1	DÉPÔT LECTURE BRIFFONS	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	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: 582 2023: 267 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 295 (2012) → 267 (2023): -9.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 369 (1990) → 267 (2023): -27.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 223, of which 22.4 % second homes and 16.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.9 km SFood shop — 7.8 km SEBakery — 9.1 km NWPharmacy — 9.2 km SWGP — 9.7 km SW 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 (Herment): 9.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Laqueuille): 7.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Bourg-Lastic): 9.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Bourg-Lastic): 9.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Julien-Puy-Lavèze): 3.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 4.6

Days at or below 0 °C 84.2

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 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 84 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ST-SULPICE weather station, 7.6 km away at 851 m; the village itself is at 931 m. ^[12]

The village sits 80 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ST-SULPICE, 7.6 km away at 851 m, over 23 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 80 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,006 mm of rain a year, spread over 136 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ST-SULPICE, 7.6 km away at 851 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63053/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63053/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63053/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63053/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63175
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63189
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63048
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63370
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
Saint-Marcel-d'Urfé	42	97 km E	268	17.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Nizerolles	03	88 km NE	282	17.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 64 % · humidity 86 %
Orgnac-sur-Vézère	19	103 km SW	325	17	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Martial-le-Mont	23	59 km NW	265	11.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Laramière	46	162 km SW	356	22	Few services	no figures
Saint-Flour-l'Étang	63	66 km E	268	29.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Martial-le-Mont	23	59 km NW	265	11.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Flour-l'Étang	63	66 km E	268	29.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Nizerolles	03	88 km NE	282	17.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 64 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Marcel-d'Urfé	42	97 km E	268	17.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Orgnac-sur-Vézère	19	103 km SW	325	17	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Laramière	46	162 km SW	356	22	Few services	no figures

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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 Briffons'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
Prondines	63	7.0 km N	272	15.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Jeantes	02	468 km N	229	9.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Condom-d'Aubrac	12	123 km S	285	15.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
La Fage-Saint-Julien	48	108 km SE	303	13.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Fréjoux	19	28 km SW	260	9.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Mézères	43	122 km SE	178	24.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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