La Renaudie

Identity

La Renaudie (INSEE 63298) is in Puy-de-Dôme (63), part of CC Thiers Dore et Montagne. Population 132 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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/63298-la-renaudie

Vitality score

Vitality score 21.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 81 % of the 13,055 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.

Services

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

1 × Restaurant (MORANGE MADELEINE). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 118 (2012) → 132 (2023): 11.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 199 (1990) → 132 (2023): -33.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 172, of which 37.8 % second homes and 19.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Le Brugeron): 2.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Vollore-Montagne): 6.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Augerolles): 8.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Augerolles): 8.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Le Brugeron): 2.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

An average of 1 day a year at or above 30 °C and 83 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the COL DU BEAL weather station, 7.3 km away at 1,393 m; the village itself is at 953 m. ^[11]

The village sits 440 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at COL DU BEAL, 7.3 km away at 1,393 m, over 11 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 440 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 1,286 mm of rain a year, spread over 141 days — about 9.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LA RENAUDIE, 2.2 km away at 805 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

What property sold for

27 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 120,000 € — 955 € per m² of built surface. ^[12]

The median across Puy-de-Dôme is 1,487 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[12]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63298/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63298/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63298/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63298/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 63057
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 63468
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 63016
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
12. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025