Saint-Flour-l'Étang

Identity

Saint-Flour-l'Étang (INSEE 63343) is in Puy-de-Dôme (63), part of CC Thiers Dore et Montagne. Population 268 (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/63343-saint-flour-l-etang

Vitality score

Vitality score 29.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 79 % of the 17,504 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

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AG CAKE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SAINT-FLOUR). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 263 (2012) → 268 (2023): 1.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 192 (1990) → 268 (2023): 39.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 177, of which 20.9 % second homes and 9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Saint-Flour-l'Étang): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Courpière): 5.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Dier-d'Auvergne): 4.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Dier-d'Auvergne): 4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Flour-l'Étang): 0.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

An average of 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 54 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the FAYET-LE-CHATEA weather station, 5.9 km away at 585 m; the village itself is at 513 m. ^[11]

The village sits 72 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 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at COURPIERE, 7.4 km away at 455 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 58 m below 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 878 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at FAYET-LE-CHATEA, 5.9 km away at 585 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63343/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63343/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63343/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63343/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 63343
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 63125
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 63334
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024