Les Pradeaux

Puy-de-Dôme · CA Agglo Pays d'Issoire · INSEE 63287

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

Few services 29/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 68 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Les Pradeaux (INSEE 63287) is in Puy-de-Dôme (63), part of CA Agglo Pays d'Issoire. Population 351 (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/63287-les-pradeaux

Vitality score

Vitality score 29/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 68 % of the 18,034 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	0.79	10	7.86
Housing mix	0.83	5	4.16

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 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 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (7 - 10). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LA GRANGE FORT). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Primary school (élémentaire), 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	7 - 10	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	2		INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING LA GRANGE FORT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 313 peak 1975: 354 2023: 351 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 312 (2012) → 351 (2023): 12.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 273 (1990) → 351 (2023): 28.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 190, of which 8.4 % second homes and 6.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.1 km EFood shop — 3.8 km SWGP — 4.3 km NWPharmacy — 4.5 km NW 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 (Saint-Rémy-de-Chargnat): 2.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Le Broc): 3.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Issoire): 4.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Issoire): 4.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Les Pradeaux): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 32.1

Days at or below 0 °C 66.7

Muggy days a summer 0.4

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 32 days a year at or above 30 °C and 67 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ISSOIRE weather station, 3.6 km away at 372 m; the village itself is at 387 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ISSOIRE, 3.6 km away at 372 m, over 28 summers. ^[12]

An average of 619 mm of rain a year, spread over 92 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ISSOIRE, 3.6 km away at 372 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63287/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63287/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63287/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63287/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63392
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63054
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63178
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63287
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
Nédonchel	62	562 km N	357	31.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Verel-de-Montbel	73	189 km E	341	31.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Asnières-sur-Vègre	72	377 km NW	331	27.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 54 % · winter 64 %
Croisette	62	544 km N	318	29.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 31 % · winter 53 %
Doumy	64	371 km SW	325	32.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 51 % · humidity 36 %
Maisoncelle-Tuilerie	60	460 km N	285	29	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Verel-de-Montbel	73	189 km E	341	31.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Doumy	64	371 km SW	325	32.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 51 % · humidity 36 %
Asnières-sur-Vègre	72	377 km NW	331	27.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 54 % · winter 64 %
Maisoncelle-Tuilerie	60	460 km N	285	29	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Croisette	62	544 km N	318	29.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 31 % · winter 53 %
Nédonchel	62	562 km N	357	31.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 62 % · 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 Les Pradeaux'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
Penol	38	149 km E	381	32.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Nevy-lès-Dole	39	238 km NE	288	22.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Bouzais	18	147 km NW	273	19.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Georges-de-Poisieux	18	145 km NW	430	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Curdin	71	132 km NE	345	12.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Jussy	89	247 km N	351	18.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %

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