Montpensier

Puy-de-Dôme · CC Plaine Limagne · INSEE 63240

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

Few services 38.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 82 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montpensier (INSEE 63240) is in Puy-de-Dôme (63), part of CC Plaine Limagne. Population 465 (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/63240-montpensier

Vitality score

Vitality score 38.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 82 % of the 17,947 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	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.92	10	9.22
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.62

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 (MAHUD). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (CAFE NOTRE DAME). ^[4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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 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	1	MAHUD	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	CAFE NOTRE DAME	INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	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: 235 2023: 465 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 424 (2012) → 465 (2023): 9.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 327 (1990) → 465 (2023): 42.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 211, of which 3.8 % second homes and 5.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 1.2 km SWFood shop — 1.7 km SWBakery — 1.9 km SWPharmacy — 2.1 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 (Aigueperse): 1.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Aigueperse): 1.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Aigueperse): 1.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Aigueperse): 2.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Montpensier): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.1

Days at or below 0 °C 73.6

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 74 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the MARINGUES weather station, 15.7 km away at 300 m; the village itself is at 372 m. ^[10]

The village sits 72 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at MARINGUES, 15.7 km away at 300 m, over 12 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 72 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 649 mm of rain a year, spread over 105 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at AUBIAT, 7 km away at 348 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63240/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63240/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63240/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63240/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63001
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63240
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
Devay	58	90 km N	460	33.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Courcelles-de-Touraine	37	274 km NW	483	42.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Belmesnil	76	446 km N	440	34.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 36 % · humidity 93 %
Remomeix	88	379 km NE	428	32.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Bellebrune	62	533 km N	427	39.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 36 % · humidity 100 %
Villefrancœur	41	239 km NW	416	32.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Devay	58	90 km N	460	33.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Villefrancœur	41	239 km NW	416	32.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Courcelles-de-Touraine	37	274 km NW	483	42.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Remomeix	88	379 km NE	428	32.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Belmesnil	76	446 km N	440	34.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 36 % · humidity 93 %
Bellebrune	62	533 km N	427	39.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 36 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Montpensier'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
Remomeix	88	379 km NE	428	32.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Marchampt	69	104 km E	450	38	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Drachenbronn-Birlenbach	67	479 km NE	581	33	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Blanzac	43	114 km SE	464	31.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Les Bizots	71	120 km NE	471	26.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Baudoncourt	70	307 km NE	482	37.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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