Ceyssat

Identity

Ceyssat (INSEE 63071) is in Puy-de-Dôme (63), part of CC Dômes Sancy Artense. Population 697 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/63071-ceyssat

Vitality score

Vitality score 36.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 67 % of the 16,420 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

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

3 × Restaurant (HA NOI PHO). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE CEYSSAT 1 RUE DE LA VIALLE 63210 CEYSSAT). ^[3]

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

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

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 665 (2012) → 697 (2023): 4.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 424 (1990) → 697 (2023): 64.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 409, of which 12.5 % second homes and 9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Olby): 3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Olby): 2.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Olby): 3.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Pontgibaud): 8.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Ceyssat): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

An average of 3 days a year at or above 30 °C and 67 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the PUY-DE-DOME-CG weather station, 5.3 km away at 1,415 m; the village itself is at 783 m. ^[11]

The village sits 632 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at PUY-DE-DOME-CG, 5.3 km away at 1,415 m, over 15 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 632 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 934 mm of rain a year, spread over 136 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at OLBY, 3 km away at 815 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

What property sold for

20 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 243,000 € — 1,868 € per m² of built surface. ^[12]

The median across Puy-de-Dôme is 1,487 € per m², so this commune sits above 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

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63071/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63071/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63071/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63071/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 63257
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 63285
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 63071
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
12. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025