Lapenche

Identity

Lapenche (INSEE 82092) is in Tarn-et-Garonne (82), part of CC du Quercy Caussadais. Population 274 (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/82092-lapenche

Vitality score

Vitality score 24/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 63 % of the 17,590 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

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

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 226 (2012) → 274 (2023): 21.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 174 (1990) → 274 (2023): 57.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 132, of which 9.1 % second homes and 6.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Belfort-du-Quercy): 5.6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Puylaroque): 4.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Septfonds): 5.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Septfonds): 6.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Puylaroque): 4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

An average of 44 days a year at or above 30 °C and 39 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CAYLUS weather station, 10.2 km away at 274 m; the village itself is at 140 m. ^[11]

The village sits 134 m below 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CAYLUS, 10.2 km away at 274 m, over 23 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 134 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 809 mm of rain a year, spread over 113 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at PUYLAROQUE, 5.1 km away at 257 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 — 82092/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 82092/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 82092/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 82092/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 46023
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 82148
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 82179
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024