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Esteil

Puy-de-Dôme · CA Agglo Pays d'Issoire · INSEE 63156

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 7.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 20 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Esteil (INSEE 63156) is in Puy-de-Dôme (63), part of CA Agglo Pays d'Issoire. Population 54 (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/63156-esteil

Vitality score

Vitality score 7.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 20 % of the 5,372 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.39103.85
Housing mix0.5252.59

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 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”.

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 78 2023: 54 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 66 (2012) → 54 (2023): -18.2 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 61 (1990) → 54 (2023): -11.5 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 54, of which 24.1 % second homes and 20.4 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 3.2 km SW (Jumeaux)Primary school — 3.2 km SW (Jumeaux)Pharmacy — 3.4 km SW (Jumeaux)Food shop — 3.5 km NW (Lamontgie)GP — 5.1 km SW (Brassac-les-Mines)
Bakery — 3.2 km SWPrimary school — 3.2 km SWPharmacy — 3.4 km SWFood shop — 3.5 km NWGP — 5.1 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 (Jumeaux): 3.2 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Lamontgie): 3.5 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Brassac-les-Mines): 5.1 km to the south-west (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Jumeaux): 3.4 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Jumeaux): 3.2 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 101 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the SAUXILLANGES weather station, 10.9 km away at 460 m; the village itself is at 689 m. [11]

The village sits 229 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, 12.2 km away at 372 m, over 28 summers. [11]

That station sits 317 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 745 mm of rain a year, spread over 105 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at SAUXILLANGES, 10.9 km away at 460 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63156/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63156/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63156/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63156/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 63182
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 63185
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 63050
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Ilheu65351 km SW5514.8No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 50 %
Saint-Jean-du-Bouzet82255 km SW548No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 38 % · winter 22 %
Sémézies-Cachan32301 km SW536No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 22 % · humidity 50 %
Fournes-Cabardès11246 km S537.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
Nibles04246 km SE549.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Broussey-en-Blois55391 km NE579.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 24 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Nibles04246 km SE549.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Fournes-Cabardès11246 km S537.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Jean-du-Bouzet82255 km SW548No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 38 % · winter 22 %
Sémézies-Cachan32301 km SW536No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 22 % · humidity 50 %
Ilheu65351 km SW5514.8No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 50 %
Broussey-en-Blois55391 km NE579.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 24 % · 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 Esteil'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Aulnoy-sur-Aube52294 km NE519.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Vesvres-sous-Chalancey52285 km NE497.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Vivey52285 km NE5111No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Chaudebonne26182 km SE5810.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Bay-sur-Aube52294 km NE456.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Poinson-lès-Grancey52280 km NE576.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %