Mons

Puy-de-Dôme · CC Plaine Limagne · INSEE 63232

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

Few services 31.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 58 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Mons (INSEE 63232) is in Puy-de-Dôme (63), part of CC Plaine Limagne. Population 578 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 31.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 58 % of the 17,272 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.82	5	4.08

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant (L'ALAMBIC DEGOUT PASTRE). ^[4,3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE). ^[4]

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, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	1	L'ALAMBIC DEGOUT PASTRE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 367 2023: 578 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 469 (2012) → 578 (2023): 23.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 344 (1990) → 578 (2023): 68 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 272, of which 9.2 % second homes and 4.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 5.1 km WGP — 5.2 km WFood shop — 5.5 km WPharmacy — 6.4 km SE 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 (Randan): 5.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Randan): 5.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Randan): 5.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Puy-Guillaume): 6.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Mons): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 25.1

Days at or below 0 °C 68.5

Muggy days a summer 1.7

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 25 days a year at or above 30 °C and 69 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MARINGUES weather station, 10.7 km away at 300 m; the village itself is at 329 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at MARINGUES, 10.7 km away at 300 m, over 12 summers. ^[11]

An average of 800 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at RANDAN, 4.9 km away at 394 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 — 63232/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63232/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63232/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63232/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63295
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63291
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63232
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
La Calotterie	62	513 km N	582	26.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 53 % · humidity 93 %
Beaurecueil	13	324 km SE	585	27.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 26 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Marcel-l'Éclairé	69	80 km E	575	28.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Serviès	81	282 km SW	584	29.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 31 % · humidity 64 %
Halsou	64	481 km SW	589	29.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 26 % · humidity 0 %
Mézy-Moulins	02	340 km N	558	31.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Marcel-l'Éclairé	69	80 km E	575	28.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Serviès	81	282 km SW	584	29.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 31 % · humidity 64 %
Beaurecueil	13	324 km SE	585	27.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 26 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Mézy-Moulins	02	340 km N	558	31.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Halsou	64	481 km SW	589	29.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 26 % · humidity 0 %
La Calotterie	62	513 km N	582	26.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 53 % · 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 Mons'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
Montoldre	03	37 km N	590	24.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Rovon	38	182 km SE	605	33.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Beaufort	38	152 km SE	573	30.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Versailleux	01	131 km E	497	31.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Desnes	39	179 km NE	494	32.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Le Plantay	01	129 km E	559	32.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

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