Blond

Haute-Vienne · CC Haut Limousin en Marche · INSEE 87018

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

Few services 38.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 73 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Blond (INSEE 87018) is in Haute-Vienne (87), part of CC Haut Limousin en Marche. Population 674 (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/87018-blond

Vitality score

Vitality score 38.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 73 % of the 16,579 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	0.29	25	7.21
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.49	10	4.9
Housing mix	0.55	5	2.73

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (SARL CHEZ BOULETTE · L'ATELIER POPOTE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (BLOND AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (POINT LECTURE DE BLOND). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (COIFFURE KARINE). ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2		INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	2	SARL CHEZ BOULETTE · L'ATELIER POPOTE	INSEE BPE 2 / 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	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	BLOND AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	POINT LECTURE DE BLOND	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	1	COIFFURE KARINE	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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,038 2023: 674 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 733 (2012) → 674 (2023): -8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 681 (1990) → 674 (2023): -1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 529, of which 22.7 % second homes and 15.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Pharmacy — 6.0 km SFood shop — 6.3 km SGP — 6.3 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 (Blond): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Cieux): 6.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Cieux): 6.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Cieux): 6 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Blond): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 13.9

Days at or below 0 °C 60.6

Muggy days a summer 2

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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 61 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the BELLAC weather station, 8.8 km away at 246 m; the village itself is at 313 m. ^[10]

The village sits 67 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 BELLAC, 8.8 km away at 246 m, over 11 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 67 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 938 mm of rain a year, spread over 135 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BELLAC, 8.8 km away at 241 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 — 87018/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 87018/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 87018/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 87018/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 87018
INSEE BPE 2025 — 87045
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
Le Cloître-Saint-Thégonnec	29	453 km NW	641	36.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 47 % · humidity 93 %
Moncrabeau	47	229 km S	745	33.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 41 % · winter 69 %
Meilhards	19	73 km SE	545	32.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Cossaye	58	205 km NE	652	34.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 96 %
Dore-l'Église	63	225 km E	656	26.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 26 % · humidity 86 %
La Chapelle-Saint-Sauveur	71	338 km E	641	35.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 92 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Meilhards	19	73 km SE	545	32.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Cossaye	58	205 km NE	652	34.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 96 %
Dore-l'Église	63	225 km E	656	26.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 26 % · humidity 86 %
Moncrabeau	47	229 km S	745	33.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 41 % · winter 69 %
La Chapelle-Saint-Sauveur	71	338 km E	641	35.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 92 %
Le Cloître-Saint-Thégonnec	29	453 km NW	641	36.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 47 % · 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 Blond'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
Meilhards	19	73 km SE	545	32.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Priest-des-Champs	63	135 km E	736	38.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Champsac	87	39 km S	702	35.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Boffres	07	313 km E	633	34.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Cressanges	03	171 km E	644	34.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Naillat	23	54 km NE	687	25.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

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