Le Buis

Haute-Vienne · CC Élan Limousin Avenir Nature · INSEE 87023

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

No daily shops 9.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 14 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Buis (INSEE 87023) is in Haute-Vienne (87), part of CC Élan Limousin Avenir Nature. Population 178 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 9.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 14 % of the 15,268 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	5	0
Population trend	0.52	10	5.23
Housing mix	0.64	5	3.18

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 0 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]

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, Post office / agence postale, 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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: 211 2023: 178 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 196 (2012) → 178 (2023): -9.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 174 (1990) → 178 (2023): 2.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 110, of which 18.2 % second homes and 4.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 3.5 km SWFood shop — 3.5 km SWPrimary school — 3.6 km SWGP — 3.8 km SWPharmacy — 3.8 km SW 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 (Nantiat): 3.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Nantiat): 3.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Nantiat): 3.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Nantiat): 3.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Nantiat): 3.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 17.4

Days at or below 0 °C 46.7

Muggy days a summer 1.5

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 17 days a year at or above 30 °C and 47 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the NANTIAT weather station, 3.9 km away at 335 m; the village itself is at 351 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at BELLAC, 14.7 km away at 246 m, over 11 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 105 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 1,104 mm of rain a year, spread over 138 days — about 8 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at NANTIAT, 3.9 km away at 335 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 87023/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 87023/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 87023/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 87023/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 87103
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
Orgères	61	310 km N	180	9.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Soucia	39	354 km E	175	15.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 58 % · humidity 86 %
Vescles	39	342 km E	181	10.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 50 % · humidity 86 %
Rayet	47	155 km S	172	11.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 96 % · humidity 57 %
Laulne	50	409 km NW	186	9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Brézilhac	11	327 km S	172	15.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 64 % · humidity 21 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Rayet	47	155 km S	172	11.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 96 % · humidity 57 %
Orgères	61	310 km N	180	9.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Brézilhac	11	327 km S	172	15.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 64 % · humidity 21 %
Vescles	39	342 km E	181	10.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 50 % · humidity 86 %
Soucia	39	354 km E	175	15.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 58 % · humidity 86 %
Laulne	50	409 km NW	186	9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 61 % · 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 Le Buis'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
Aubigny	79	128 km NW	178	11.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Le Bouchage	16	64 km W	175	8.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Soula	09	346 km S	168	10.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Léger-Bridereix	23	41 km NE	162	8.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Reygade	19	126 km SE	175	9.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Merry-Sec	89	250 km NE	172	12.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

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