Les Billanges

Haute-Vienne · CC Élan Limousin Avenir Nature · INSEE 87016

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 11.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 11 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Les Billanges (INSEE 87016) is in Haute-Vienne (87), part of CC Élan Limousin Avenir Nature. Population 296 (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/87016-les-billanges

Vitality score

Vitality score 11.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 11 % of the 17,802 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	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.54	10	5.39
Housing mix	0.51	5	2.57

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LES BILLANGES LPR RP). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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)	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	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	1	LES BILLANGES LPR 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 464 2023: 296 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 310 (2012) → 296 (2023): -4.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 285 (1990) → 296 (2023): 3.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 235, of which 24.3 % second homes and 14 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.0 km SEBakery — 6.4 km NWFood shop — 6.4 km NWPharmacy — 6.4 km NWGP — 6.5 km NW 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 (La Jonchère-Saint-Maurice): 6.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Jonchère-Saint-Maurice): 6.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (La Jonchère-Saint-Maurice): 6.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (La Jonchère-Saint-Maurice): 6.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Martin-Sainte-Catherine): 3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8.5

Days at or below 0 °C 28.5

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 29 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ST LEGER LA MONTAGNE_SAPC weather station, 9.8 km away at 664 m; the village itself is at 387 m. ^[10]

The village sits 277 m below 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]

An average of 1,150 mm of rain a year, spread over 141 days — about 8.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ST MARTIN TERRE, 7.4 km away at 255 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 — 87016/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 87016/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 87016/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 87016/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 87079
INSEE BPE 2025 — 23217
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
La Dorée	53	335 km NW	286	7.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 91 %
Montrollet	16	49 km W	323	12.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 81 %
Gehée	36	121 km N	253	8.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 81 %
Thionne	03	165 km E	291	10.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 82 %
Lafat	23	42 km N	328	6.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 70 %
Villebourg	37	202 km N	303	14.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 89 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Lafat	23	42 km N	328	6.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 70 %
Montrollet	16	49 km W	323	12.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 81 %
Gehée	36	121 km N	253	8.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 81 %
Thionne	03	165 km E	291	10.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 82 %
Villebourg	37	202 km N	303	14.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 89 %
La Dorée	53	335 km NW	286	7.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 91 %

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