Vensat

Puy-de-Dôme · CC Plaine Limagne · INSEE 63446

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

Few services 32.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 63 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Vensat (INSEE 63446) is in Puy-de-Dôme (63), part of CC Plaine Limagne. Population 569 (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/63446-vensat

Vitality score

Vitality score 32.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 63 % of the 17,350 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.85	10	8.45
Housing mix	0.88	5	4.41

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 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”.

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

2 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	2		INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE	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	1		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: 421 2023: 569 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 455 (2012) → 569 (2023): 25.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 423 (1990) → 569 (2023): 34.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 289, of which 5.9 % second homes and 8.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 2.6 km SEFood shop — 2.7 km SEBakery — 2.8 km SEPharmacy — 2.9 km S 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 (Aigueperse): 2.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Aigueperse): 2.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Aigueperse): 2.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Aigueperse): 2.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Vensat): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21.6

Days at or below 0 °C 75.1

Muggy days a summer 1.4

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 75 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the MARINGUES weather station, 18.5 km away at 300 m; the village itself is at 387 m. ^[10]

The village sits 87 m above 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at MARINGUES, 18.5 km away at 300 m, over 12 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 87 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 649 mm of rain a year, spread over 105 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at AUBIAT, 8 km away at 348 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 — 63446/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63446/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63446/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63446/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63001
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63446
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
Auteuil	60	376 km N	554	31.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Rieul	22	500 km NW	551	34.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 36 % · humidity 100 %
Ruillé-Froid-Fonds	53	356 km NW	583	31.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Heidolsheim	67	406 km NE	582	32	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Roset-Fluans	25	237 km NE	599	31.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Précey	50	447 km NW	559	32.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 35 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Roset-Fluans	25	237 km NE	599	31.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Ruillé-Froid-Fonds	53	356 km NW	583	31.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Auteuil	60	376 km N	554	31.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Heidolsheim	67	406 km NE	582	32	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Précey	50	447 km NW	559	32.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 35 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Rieul	22	500 km NW	551	34.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 36 % · 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 Vensat'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
Roset-Fluans	25	237 km NE	599	31.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Aubin-en-Charollais	71	94 km NE	505	31.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Drachenbronn-Birlenbach	67	480 km NE	581	33	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Aiglepierre	39	225 km NE	412	27.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Loup	03	37 km NE	575	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Martin-d'Heuille	58	112 km N	565	20.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

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