Chalus

Puy-de-Dôme · CA Agglo Pays d'Issoire · INSEE 63074

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

No daily shops 18.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 61 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chalus (INSEE 63074) is in Puy-de-Dôme (63), part of CA Agglo Pays d'Issoire. Population 177 (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/63074-chalus

Vitality score

Vitality score 18.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 61 % of the 15,245 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.63	10	6.35
Housing mix	0.67	5	3.33

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 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]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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	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	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	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: 112 peak 2012: 182 2023: 177 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 182 (2012) → 177 (2023): -2.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 156 (1990) → 177 (2023): 13.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 126, of which 16.7 % second homes and 10.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 1.9 km WFood shop — 2.4 km EGP — 2.4 km EPharmacy — 2.4 km EBakery — 5.2 km NE 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 (Le Broc): 5.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Germain-Lembron): 2.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Germain-Lembron): 2.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Germain-Lembron): 2.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Boudes): 1.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 24.2

Days at or below 0 °C 80.8

Muggy days a summer 0.2

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 24 days a year at or above 30 °C and 81 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ISSOIRE weather station, 8.8 km away at 372 m; the village itself is at 549 m. ^[11]

The village sits 177 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 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ISSOIRE, 8.8 km away at 372 m, over 28 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 177 m below 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 619 mm of rain a year, spread over 92 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ISSOIRE, 8.8 km away at 372 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63074/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63074/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63074/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63074/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63054
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63352
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63046
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
Bourg-le-Comte	71	112 km NE	168	14.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Petite-Chaux	25	266 km NE	177	22.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 9 % · humidity 100 %
Puyrolland	17	305 km W	182	16.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 54 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Calez-en-Saosnois	72	386 km NW	179	20.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 64 % · winter 36 %
Domeyrat	43	33 km SE	176	19.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Saury	15	107 km SW	183	15.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Domeyrat	43	33 km SE	176	19.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Saury	15	107 km SW	183	15.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Bourg-le-Comte	71	112 km NE	168	14.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Petite-Chaux	25	266 km NE	177	22.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 9 % · humidity 100 %
Puyrolland	17	305 km W	182	16.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 54 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Calez-en-Saosnois	72	386 km NW	179	20.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 64 % · winter 36 %

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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 Chalus'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
Bourg-le-Comte	71	112 km NE	168	14.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-du-Lac	71	109 km NE	234	17.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Thianges	58	162 km N	165	6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Mont	71	138 km N	173	9.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
La Celle-sous-Gouzon	23	114 km NW	162	9.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Pandrignes	19	109 km W	172	12.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %

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