Saint-Germain-l'Herm

Puy-de-Dôme · CC Ambert Livradois Forez · INSEE 63353

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

Partly served 43.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 88 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Germain-l'Herm (INSEE 63353) is in Puy-de-Dôme (63), part of CC Ambert Livradois Forez. Population 482 (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/63353-saint-germain-l-herm

Vitality score

Vitality score 43.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 88 % of the 17,875 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	0.5	25	12.47
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.4	10	4.04
Housing mix	0.22	5	1.13

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AUX SAVEURS DE B). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (PETIT CASINO). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE PRE FLEURI). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Collège (COLLEGE GASPARD DES MONTAGNES). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (MATHILDE VICARD-OLAGNE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE DE SAINT-GERMAIN-L'HERM). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE POLYVALENTE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (LES CISEAUX DE LAURINE). ^[3,4]

2 × Campsite (CAMPING LE SAUZET · CAMPING LE SAINT ELOY). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 2 × Hairdresser.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	AUX SAVEURS DE B	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	PETIT CASINO	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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 PRE FLEURI	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	1	COLLEGE GASPARD DES MONTAGNES	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	MATHILDE VICARD-OLAGNE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE DE SAINT-GERMAIN-L'HERM	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	SALLE POLYVALENTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1	LES CISEAUX DE LAURINE	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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	2	CAMPING LE SAUZET · CAMPING LE SAINT ELOY	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 907 2023: 482 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 483 (2012) → 482 (2023): -0.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 533 (1990) → 482 (2023): -9.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 480, of which 38.8 % second homes and 12.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 0.6 km NWPharmacy — 15.2 km E 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-Germain-l'Herm): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Germain-l'Herm): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Germain-l'Herm): 0.6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Arlanc): 15.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Germain-l'Herm): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 3.9▸

Days at or below 0 °C 105.9▸

Muggy days a summer 0

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 4 days a year at or above 30 °C and 106 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ST-GERMAIN-L HE weather station, 0.8 km away at 1,070 m; the village itself is at 1,024 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at ST-GERMAIN-L HE, 0.8 km away at 1,070 m, over 27 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,056 mm of rain a year, spread over 135 days — about 7.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ST-GERMAIN-L HE, 0.8 km away at 1,070 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 — 63353/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63353/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63353/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63353/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63353
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63010
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
Monteils	12	180 km SW	461	39.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 39 % · humidity 71 %
La Motte-Chalancon	26	181 km SE	395	44.3	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 21 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
La Livinière	34	249 km S	530	46.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 43 %
Coupiac	12	184 km SW	353	40	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 28 % · winter 19 %
Revest-du-Bion	04	220 km SE	480	54.4	Partly served	no figures
Barrême	04	279 km SE	413	52.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Monteils	12	180 km SW	461	39.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 39 % · humidity 71 %
La Motte-Chalancon	26	181 km SE	395	44.3	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 21 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Coupiac	12	184 km SW	353	40	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 28 % · winter 19 %
Revest-du-Bion	04	220 km SE	480	54.4	Partly served	no figures
La Livinière	34	249 km S	530	46.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 43 %
Barrême	04	279 km SE	413	52.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 77 % · 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 Saint-Germain-l'Herm'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
Fay-sur-Lignon	43	75 km SE	335	43.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Cayres	43	63 km S	674	45	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Nasbinals	48	97 km SW	571	74	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jeures	43	66 km SE	1,015	31.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Gerbépal	88	395 km NE	544	32	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Trévillers	25	326 km NE	533	48.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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