Menat

Puy-de-Dôme · CC du Pays de Saint-Eloy · INSEE 63223

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

Partly served 46.2/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 90 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Menat (INSEE 63223) is in Puy-de-Dôme (63), part of CC du Pays de Saint-Eloy. Population 547 (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/63223-menat

Vitality score

Vitality score 46.2/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 90 % of the 17,533 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	0.75	20	14.97
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.35	10	3.55
Housing mix	0.56	5	2.8

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA PANETERIE). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (MAISON CUSSET BOUQUET - MCB). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (BAR TABAC PRESSE THIERREE MELANIE). ^[4]

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

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE PALLON). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (MENAT AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE DE MENAT). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (ANGELIQUE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

2 × Campsite (CAMPING MUNICIPAL DES TARTEAUX · CAMPING ET GITES LES TARTEAUX). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant, 1 × Campsite.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LA PANETERIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	MAISON CUSSET BOUQUET - MCB	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	BAR TABAC PRESSE THIERREE MELANIE	INSEE SIRENE 2 [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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE PALLON	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	MENAT AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE DE MENAT	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	ANGELIQUE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	2	CAMPING MUNICIPAL DES TARTEAUX · CAMPING ET GITES LES TARTEAUX	INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 912 2023: 547 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 557 (2012) → 547 (2023): -1.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 640 (1990) → 547 (2023): -14.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 437, of which 22 % second homes and 13.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, Pharmacy Food shop — 4.2 km EGP — 6.5 km S 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 (Menat): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Pouzol): 4.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Ayat-sur-Sioule): 6.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Menat): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Menat): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21.7

Days at or below 0 °C 96.8▸

Muggy days a summer 1.5

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 97 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MENAT weather station, 0.4 km away at 410 m; the village itself is at 413 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ST-GERVAIS-D AU, 11.1 km away at 705 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 292 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 800 mm of rain a year, spread over 129 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MENAT, 0.4 km away at 410 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63223/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63223/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63223/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63223/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63223
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63286
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63025
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-Pierre-du-Champ	43	123 km SE	565	42.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 57 %
Parisot	82	220 km S	557	43.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 36 % · humidity 100 %
Ségur	12	202 km S	534	38.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 36 %
Montbrun-Bocage	31	355 km S	592	52	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 39 % · humidity 64 %
Vesdun	18	61 km NW	540	39.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 54 % · humidity 86 %
Ferrières-sur-Sichon	03	58 km E	496	37.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Ferrières-sur-Sichon	03	58 km E	496	37.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Vesdun	18	61 km NW	540	39.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 54 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Pierre-du-Champ	43	123 km SE	565	42.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 57 %
Ségur	12	202 km S	534	38.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 36 %
Parisot	82	220 km S	557	43.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 36 % · humidity 100 %
Montbrun-Bocage	31	355 km S	592	52	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 39 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Menat'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
Millay	58	118 km NE	440	42	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Rimont	09	369 km S	542	44	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Poncy	15	107 km S	339	27	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Just-près-Brioude	43	102 km S	398	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Vincent-de-Reins	69	115 km E	635	56.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Parsac	23	59 km W	825	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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