Olby

Puy-de-Dôme · CC Dômes Sancy Artense · INSEE 63257

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

Served 61.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 97 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Olby (INSEE 63257) is in Puy-de-Dôme (63), part of CC Dômes Sancy Artense. Population 857 (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/63257-olby

Vitality score

Vitality score 61.1/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 97 % of the 15,252 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	0.63	25	15.8
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.63	10	6.32
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.81	5	4.03

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE DE LA FONTAINE). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (LA PAYSANNE DES DOMES). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (VIVAL). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LA FONTAINE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (AUDREY LABONNE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE OLBY). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Pharmacy.

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BOULANGERIE DE LA FONTAINE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	LA PAYSANNE DES DOMES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	VIVAL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	LA FONTAINE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [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)	1	AUDREY LABONNE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE OLBY	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	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: 444 2023: 857 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 735 (2012) → 857 (2023): 16.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 485 (1990) → 857 (2023): 76.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 443, of which 9.7 % second homes and 10.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 8.0 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 (Olby): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Olby): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Olby): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Rochefort-Montagne): 8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Olby): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 10.6

Days at or below 0 °C 82.3

Muggy days a summer 0.3

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 11 days a year at or above 30 °C and 82 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the GELLES weather station, 5.4 km away at 784 m; the village itself is at 760 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at PUY-DE-DOME-CG, 8 km away at 1,415 m, over 15 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 655 m above 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 934 mm of rain a year, spread over 136 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at OLBY, 1.8 km away at 815 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 — 63257/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63257/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63257/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63257/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63257
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63305
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
Maillezais	85	287 km W	890	65	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 30 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Martin-d'Estréaux	42	88 km NE	845	56.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 66 % · humidity 14 %
Lugny	71	170 km NE	845	65.7	Served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 51 % · humidity 86 %
Raddon-et-Chapendu	70	360 km NE	849	60.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Trie-sur-Baïse	65	334 km SW	1,006	51.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 46 % · humidity 50 %
Montolieu	11	276 km S	829	60.4	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 28 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Martin-d'Estréaux	42	88 km NE	845	56.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 66 % · humidity 14 %
Lugny	71	170 km NE	845	65.7	Served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 51 % · humidity 86 %
Montolieu	11	276 km S	829	60.4	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 28 % · humidity 43 %
Maillezais	85	287 km W	890	65	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 30 % · humidity 86 %
Trie-sur-Baïse	65	334 km SW	1,006	51.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 46 % · humidity 50 %
Raddon-et-Chapendu	70	360 km NE	849	60.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · 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 Olby'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
Raddon-et-Chapendu	70	360 km NE	849	60.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Siaugues-Sainte-Marie	43	94 km SE	839	66.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Rolampont	52	307 km NE	1,373	43.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Martin-la-Sauveté	42	82 km E	889	47.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Hauteroche	39	239 km NE	971	66.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Val Suran	39	212 km E	777	52.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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