Le Dorat

Haute-Vienne · CC Haut Limousin en Marche · INSEE 87059

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

Partly served 49.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 76 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Dorat (INSEE 87059) is in Haute-Vienne (87), part of CC Haut Limousin en Marche. Population 1,529 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/87059-le-dorat

Vitality score

Vitality score 49.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 76 % of the 11,474 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.87	20	17.47
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.63	10	6.29
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.19	10	1.94
Housing mix	0.81	5	4.04

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 2 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 2 of 3

Lodging 1 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) (LE FOURNIL DE JULIEN). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (EPICERIE DU DORAT). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (INTERMARCHE). ^[3,4]

7 × Restaurant (EURL LA MARMITE · LE TREFLE IRLANDAIS). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar (L'ATELIER DU ROCK 87 · LE CAFE DE LA POSTE · LA PETITE FONTAINE). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE PIERRE ROBERT). ^[3]

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JEREMY CORNU, MÉDECIN · CATHERINE SALMON, MÉDECIN · JULIEN GALTIE, MÉDECIN · MARTIAL JARDEL, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

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

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE MUNICIPALE GAËTAN PICON). ^[3]

1 × Cinema (LE CINEMA). ^[3]

2 × Gym / sports hall (CENTRE MUNICIPAL DE COURTOISON · COLLEGE D ENSEIGNEMENT MIXTE). ^[3]

4 × Hairdresser (SLOW BEAUTY SELECT · L'EVIDENCE BY FA). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LA PLANCHE DES DAMES). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Bakery (boulangerie), 3 × Restaurant, 1 × Primary school (élémentaire), 1 × Pharmacy.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Primary school (élémentaire). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LE FOURNIL DE JULIEN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	EPICERIE DU DORAT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	INTERMARCHE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	7	EURL LA MARMITE · LE TREFLE IRLANDAIS	INSEE BPE 7 / INSEE SIRENE 12 [3,4]
Café / bar	3	L'ATELIER DU ROCK 87 · LE CAFE DE LA POSTE · LA PETITE FONTAINE	INSEE SIRENE 3 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE PIERRE ROBERT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	4	JEREMY CORNU, MÉDECIN · CATHERINE SALMON, MÉDECIN · JULIEN GALTIE, MÉDECIN · MARTIAL JARDEL, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DU DORAT	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	MÉDIATHÈQUE MUNICIPALE GAËTAN PICON	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	1	LE CINEMA	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Gym / sports hall	2	CENTRE MUNICIPAL DE COURTOISON · COLLEGE D ENSEIGNEMENT MIXTE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	4	SLOW BEAUTY SELECT · L'EVIDENCE BY FA	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING LA PLANCHE DES DAMES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 2,497 2023: 1,529 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,733 (2012) → 1,529 (2023): -11.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 2,203 (1990) → 1,529 (2023): -30.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,125, of which 9.6 % second homes and 22.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 0.8 km WPharmacy — 6.1 km E 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 (Le Dorat): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Le Dorat): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Le Dorat): 0.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Magnac-Laval): 6.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Le Dorat): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 23.1

Days at or below 0 °C 58.5

Muggy days a summer 2.3

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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 59 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LE DORAT weather station, 0.6 km away at 222 m; the village itself is at 222 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at MAGNAC-LAVAL, 7.8 km away at 246 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 915 mm of rain a year, spread over 131 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LE DORAT, 0.6 km away at 222 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 — 87059/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 87059/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 87059/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 87059/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 87059
INSEE BPE 2025 — 87089
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
Nantiat	87	24 km S	1,580	44	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Longpré-les-Corps-Saints	80	427 km N	1,500	48.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
L'Île-Bouchard	37	113 km NW	1,606	58.8	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Châlus	87	64 km S	1,683	55.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
L'Isle-en-Dodon	31	316 km S	1,614	52.6	Partly served	no figures
La Mothe-Saint-Héray	79	94 km W	1,652	56.4	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 59 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Nantiat	87	24 km S	1,580	44	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Châlus	87	64 km S	1,683	55.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
La Mothe-Saint-Héray	79	94 km W	1,652	56.4	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 59 % · humidity 86 %
L'Île-Bouchard	37	113 km NW	1,606	58.8	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
L'Isle-en-Dodon	31	316 km S	1,614	52.6	Partly served	no figures
Longpré-les-Corps-Saints	80	427 km N	1,500	48.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Dorat'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
Étang-sur-Arroux	71	248 km E	1,750	52.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Vatan	36	110 km NE	1,994	54.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Neuvy-Saint-Sépulchre	36	70 km NE	1,623	56.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Épinac	71	276 km E	2,168	46.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Fleurey-sur-Ouche	21	312 km NE	1,535	45.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Champeix	63	173 km SE	1,422	62.4	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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