Varennes-sur-Morge

Puy-de-Dôme · CA Riom Limagne et Volcans · INSEE 63443

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

Few services 24.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 49 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Varennes-sur-Morge (INSEE 63443) is in Puy-de-Dôme (63), part of CA Riom Limagne et Volcans. Population 429 (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 24.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 49 % of the 17,956 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.75

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 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 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant (AUX P'TITS CREUX). ^[3,4]

1 × Hairdresser (ELEA TENDANCE). ^[3,4]

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, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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	1	AUX P'TITS CREUX	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)	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	1	ELEA TENDANCE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 206 2023: 429 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 417 (2012) → 429 (2023): 2.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 282 (1990) → 429 (2023): 52.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 198, of which 2.5 % second homes and 7.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 2.0 km NWPharmacy — 2.0 km NWPrimary school — 2.1 km NWFood shop — 2.9 km EGP — 5.7 km SE 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 (Le Cheix-sur-Morge): 2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Martres-sur-Morge): 2.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Ennezat): 5.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Le Cheix-sur-Morge): 2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Le Cheix-sur-Morge): 2.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 25.5

Days at or below 0 °C 61.5

Muggy days a summer 1.7

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 26 days a year at or above 30 °C and 62 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the RIOM weather station, 9.1 km away at 360 m; the village itself is at 329 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at MARINGUES, 12.3 km away at 300 m, over 12 summers. ^[11]

An average of 649 mm of rain a year, spread over 105 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at AUBIAT, 3.6 km away at 348 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63443/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63443/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63443/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63443/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63108
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63215
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63148
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
Bouillancy	60	353 km N	429	21.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Royas	38	157 km E	427	27.2	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Georges-de-Rex	79	298 km W	431	22.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Mesnil-Saint-Laurent	02	433 km N	435	19	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Sandarville	28	302 km NW	423	24.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Bérus	72	360 km NW	435	21.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 62 % · winter 78 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Royas	38	157 km E	427	27.2	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Georges-de-Rex	79	298 km W	431	22.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Sandarville	28	302 km NW	423	24.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Bouillancy	60	353 km N	429	21.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Bérus	72	360 km NW	435	21.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 62 % · winter 78 %
Mesnil-Saint-Laurent	02	433 km N	435	19	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Varennes-sur-Morge'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
Champdivers	39	206 km NE	445	20.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Roggenhouse	68	391 km NE	458	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Bernard	21	195 km NE	464	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Cuzieu	01	193 km E	424	24.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Pirajoux	01	170 km E	397	22.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Chaptuzat	63	10 km N	485	23.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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