Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme

Tarn · CC Sidobre Vals et Plateaux · INSEE 81269

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

Few services 24.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 39 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme (INSEE 81269) is in Tarn (81), part of CC Sidobre Vals et Plateaux. Population 538 (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/81269-saint-salvy-de-la-balme

Vitality score

Vitality score 24.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 39 % of the 17,562 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.41	10	4.12
Housing mix	0.73	5	3.64

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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 food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (SUPERETTE DES ROCHERS). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINT SALVY DE LA BALME RPC RP). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (CHAO'TIF). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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)	1	SUPERETTE DES ROCHERS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	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	1	SAINT SALVY DE LA BALME RPC RP	INSEE BPE 1 [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	2	CHAO'TIF	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 522 peak 1982: 634 2023: 538 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 551 (2012) → 538 (2023): -2.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 590 (1990) → 538 (2023): -8.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 360, of which 13.6 % second homes and 8.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Pharmacy — 4.3 km SBakery — 5.9 km EGP — 7.5 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 (Le Bez): 5.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Brassac): 7.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Boissezon): 4.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 26.5

Days at or below 0 °C 60

Muggy days a summer 2.5

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 60 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the BURLATS weather station, 10.3 km away at 216 m; the village itself is at 597 m. ^[12]

The village sits 381 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.7 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at MONTREDON-LABESSONNIE, 13.2 km away at 566 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 1,235 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 10 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at VABRE, 9.8 km away at 403 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81269/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81269/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81269/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81269/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81031
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81269
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81037
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81034
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
Villemurlin	45	453 km N	536	27.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Villardonnel	11	31 km S	515	30.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Tribehou	50	683 km NW	525	26.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 38 % · winter 49 %
Albine	81	20 km SE	512	24.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Avoise	72	514 km N	594	28.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 73 %
Lerm-et-Musset	33	220 km W	504	30.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 89 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Albine	81	20 km SE	512	24.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Villardonnel	11	31 km S	515	30.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Lerm-et-Musset	33	220 km W	504	30.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 89 % · humidity 79 %
Villemurlin	45	453 km N	536	27.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Avoise	72	514 km N	594	28.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 73 %
Tribehou	50	683 km NW	525	26.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 38 % · winter 49 %

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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-Salvy-de-la-Balme'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
Cassagne	31	126 km SW	641	26.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Jenzat	03	291 km N	517	29.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Bérain-sur-Dheune	71	397 km NE	538	35.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Bantanges	71	396 km NE	577	22.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Ronsenac	16	268 km NW	571	20.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Gilly-sur-Loire	71	343 km N	480	31.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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