Arnac-la-Poste

Haute-Vienne · CC Haut Limousin en Marche · INSEE 87003

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

Partly served 46.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 82 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Arnac-la-Poste (INSEE 87003) is in Haute-Vienne (87), part of CC Haut Limousin en Marche. Population 902 (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/87003-arnac-la-poste

Vitality score

Vitality score 46.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 82 % of the 14,955 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0.48	20	9.5
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.38	10	3.78
Housing mix	0.66	5	3.29

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE GRANGE). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (PROXI). ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (LA BELLA VITA · EURL LA BROCHE GOURMANDE · CREPES A COCO). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE PREVOST). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE ARNAC LA POSTE). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (MD COIFF' · DANNI S MOBILE HAIDRESSING). ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE GRANGE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	PROXI	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	3	LA BELLA VITA · EURL LA BROCHE GOURMANDE · CREPES A COCO	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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	1	PHARMACIE PREVOST	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE ARNAC LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	MD COIFF' · DANNI S MOBILE HAIDRESSING	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 1,279 2023: 902 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,007 (2012) → 902 (2023): -10.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,027 (1990) → 902 (2023): -12.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 645, of which 17.1 % second homes and 12.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 5.8 km N 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 (Arnac-la-Poste): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Arnac-la-Poste): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Sulpice-les-Feuilles): 5.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Arnac-la-Poste): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Arnac-la-Poste): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15

Days at or below 0 °C 48.6

Muggy days a summer 1.6

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 49 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the MAGNAC-LAVAL weather station, 15.7 km away at 246 m; the village itself is at 303 m. ^[10]

The village sits 57 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 4.94 °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 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at MAGNAC-LAVAL, 15.7 km away at 246 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 57 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 940 mm of rain a year, spread over 135 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ST SULPICE LES, 5.6 km away at 290 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 — 87003/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 87003/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 87003/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 87003/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 87003
INSEE BPE 2025 — 87182
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
Verruyes	79	131 km W	900	45.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 86 %
Azerables	23	13 km NE	804	45.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Saud-Lacoussière	24	91 km SW	820	44.9	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Augerolles	63	184 km E	862	50	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Champagné-Saint-Hilaire	86	81 km W	998	48.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Dizier-Masbaraud	23	37 km SE	1,143	32	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Azerables	23	13 km NE	804	45.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Dizier-Masbaraud	23	37 km SE	1,143	32	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Champagné-Saint-Hilaire	86	81 km W	998	48.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Saud-Lacoussière	24	91 km SW	820	44.9	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Verruyes	79	131 km W	900	45.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 86 %
Augerolles	63	184 km E	862	50	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · 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 Arnac-la-Poste'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
Azerables	23	13 km NE	804	45.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Augerolles	63	184 km E	862	50	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Champagné-Saint-Hilaire	86	81 km W	998	48.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Dizier-Masbaraud	23	37 km SE	1,143	32	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Sornin-Leulac	87	9.5 km SW	564	47.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Buxières-les-Mines	03	124 km E	994	42.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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