Saint-Gérand-le-Puy

Allier · CC Entr'Allier Besbre et Loire · INSEE 03235

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

Partly served 59.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 96 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Gérand-le-Puy (INSEE 03235) is in Allier (03), part of CC Entr'Allier Besbre et Loire. Population 963 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[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/03235-saint-gerand-le-puy

Vitality score

Vitality score 59.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 96 % of the 14,551 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	0.53	25	13.19
Social	0.75	20	14.97
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.63	10	6.32
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.41	10	4.05
Housing mix	0.87	5	4.34

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 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 0 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) (CHARPENTIER FRANZ). ^[3,4]

3 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (REBAD · VIVAL). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LE CONTACT · RHETAT SERVICES). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (GEORGIA KAVAKOPOULOU, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE SAINT GERAND LE PUY). ^[3,4]

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

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie), 2 × Restaurant, 1 × Pharmacy, 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	CHARPENTIER FRANZ	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	3	REBAD · VIVAL	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	LE CONTACT · RHETAT SERVICES	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	GEORGIA KAVAKOPOULOU, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE SAINT GERAND LE PUY	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	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	3	ISA COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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: 1,143 2023: 963 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,014 (2012) → 963 (2023): -5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,064 (1990) → 963 (2023): -9.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 503, of which 6.6 % second homes and 13.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 8.4 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 (Saint-Gérand-le-Puy): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Gérand-le-Puy): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Gérand-le-Puy): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Germain-des-Fossés): 8.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Gérand-le-Puy): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 31.4

Days at or below 0 °C 76.3

Muggy days a summer 0.9

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 31 days a year at or above 30 °C and 76 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the BILLY weather station, 6.9 km away at 260 m; the village itself is at 326 m. ^[10]

The village sits 66 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 6.06 °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 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at VICHY-CHARMEIL, 13.4 km away at 249 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 77 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 782 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BILLY, 6.9 km away at 260 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 — 03235/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03235/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03235/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03235/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03235
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03236
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
Champeaux	77	264 km N	810	61.4	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 57 % · humidity 100 %
Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique	02	363 km N	990	56.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Petit-Noir	39	159 km NE	1,056	45.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Harcourt	27	382 km NW	1,062	46.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Auvillers-les-Forges	08	406 km N	909	61.7	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Charmont-sous-Barbuise	10	244 km N	1,053	48.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Petit-Noir	39	159 km NE	1,056	45.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Charmont-sous-Barbuise	10	244 km N	1,053	48.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Champeaux	77	264 km N	810	61.4	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 57 % · humidity 100 %
Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique	02	363 km N	990	56.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Harcourt	27	382 km NW	1,062	46.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Auvillers-les-Forges	08	406 km N	909	61.7	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 72 % · 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 Saint-Gérand-le-Puy'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
Saint-Aulaire	19	200 km SW	773	56.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Faramans	38	160 km SE	1,143	57.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint Antoine l'Abbaye	38	179 km SE	1,263	57.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Rochefort-sur-Nenon	39	184 km NE	700	52.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
La Fouillade	12	253 km SW	1,128	54.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Fontannes	43	108 km S	875	51	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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