Pulvérières

Puy-de-Dôme · CA Riom Limagne et Volcans · INSEE 63290

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

Few services 29.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 64 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Pulvérières (INSEE 63290) is in Puy-de-Dôme (63), part of CA Riom Limagne et Volcans. Population 419 (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 29.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 64 % of the 17,969 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	0.86	10	8.65
Housing mix	0.81	5	4.04

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 (LE PULL VERT). ^[3,4]

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

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 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	LE PULL VERT	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 ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	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: 361 2023: 419 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 389 (2012) → 419 (2023): 7.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 307 (1990) → 419 (2023): 36.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 229, of which 9.6 % second homes and 11.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.5 km WBakery — 3.6 km WGP — 4.3 km SPharmacy — 7.5 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 (Chapdes-Beaufort): 3.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Chapdes-Beaufort): 3.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Ours): 4.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Pontgibaud): 7.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Pulvérières): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.3

Days at or below 0 °C 84.3

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 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 84 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the FONTAINE-DU-BER_SAPC weather station, 11.6 km away at 971 m; the village itself is at 844 m. ^[12]

The village sits 127 m below 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. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at PUY-DE-DOME-CG, 13.6 km away at 1,415 m, over 15 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 571 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 967 mm of rain a year, spread over 142 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at PONTGIBAUD, 7.3 km away at 730 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 — 63290/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63290/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63290/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63290/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63085
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63381
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63285
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63290
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-Sulpice-des-Rivoires	38	215 km E	425	28.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Vions	73	225 km E	425	31.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 41 % · winter 46 %
Salles-de-Barbezieux	16	241 km W	407	25.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 54 % · humidity 57 %
Bourbach-le-Haut	68	379 km NE	408	31.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Boissey	01	170 km E	396	31.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 31 % · winter 72 %
Saint-Michel-Loubéjou	46	138 km SW	418	30	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 18 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Michel-Loubéjou	46	138 km SW	418	30	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 18 % · humidity 71 %
Boissey	01	170 km E	396	31.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 31 % · winter 72 %
Saint-Sulpice-des-Rivoires	38	215 km E	425	28.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Vions	73	225 km E	425	31.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 41 % · winter 46 %
Salles-de-Barbezieux	16	241 km W	407	25.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 54 % · humidity 57 %
Bourbach-le-Haut	68	379 km NE	408	31.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 69 % · 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 Pulvérières'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
Illy	08	455 km N	413	26.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Montcornet	08	457 km N	300	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Vernines	63	24 km S	430	32.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Climbach	67	509 km NE	479	32.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Souclin	01	194 km E	262	29.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Watigny	02	457 km N	350	16.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %

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