Saint-Léger-sur-Vouzance

Allier · CC Entr'Allier Besbre et Loire · INSEE 03239

A school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink.

No daily shops 17.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 39 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Léger-sur-Vouzance (INSEE 03239) is in Allier (03), part of CC Entr'Allier Besbre et Loire. Population 258 (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/03239-saint-leger-sur-vouzance

Vitality score

Vitality score 17.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 39 % of the 17,323 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.24	10	2.37
Housing mix	0.87	5	4.33

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 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”.

A school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (MAIRIE DE SAINT-LÉGER SUR VOUZANCE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	MAIRIE DE SAINT-LÉGER SUR VOUZANCE	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	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: 398 2023: 258 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 268 (2012) → 258 (2023): -3.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 350 (1990) → 258 (2023): -26.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 150, of which 6.7 % second homes and 11.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Pharmacy — 6.1 km NFood shop — 7.2 km NBakery — 8.5 km NGP — 9.1 km NE 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 (Digoin): 8.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Molinet): 7.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Digoin): 9.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Molinet): 6.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Léger-sur-Vouzance): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21

Days at or below 0 °C 62.1

Muggy days a summer 2.5

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 62 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SAINT DIDIER_SAPC weather station, 8.4 km away at 293 m; the village itself is at 263 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at SAINT DIDIER_SAPC, 8.4 km away at 293 m, over 15 summers. ^[11]

An average of 779 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SAINT DIDIER_SAPC, 8.4 km away at 293 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03239/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03239/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03239/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03239/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71176
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03173
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03239
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
Berlencourt-le-Cauroy	62	445 km N	277	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Laymont	32	406 km SW	232	22.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 45 % · humidity 71 %
Rocles	03	70 km W	326	19.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Mézard	32	374 km SW	240	19.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 58 % · humidity 43 %
Semoine	10	253 km N	218	23.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 89 %
Armaillé	49	410 km NW	320	20.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 53 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Rocles	03	70 km W	326	19.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Semoine	10	253 km N	218	23.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 89 %
Saint-Mézard	32	374 km SW	240	19.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 58 % · humidity 43 %
Laymont	32	406 km SW	232	22.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 45 % · humidity 71 %
Armaillé	49	410 km NW	320	20.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 53 %
Berlencourt-le-Cauroy	62	445 km N	277	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · 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 Saint-Léger-sur-Vouzance'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-Didier-en-Donjon	03	6.4 km W	245	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Beaune-d'Allier	03	82 km W	296	19.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Santenay	41	250 km NW	296	16.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Céron	71	14 km S	263	10.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Nouhant	23	120 km W	313	17	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Ouzouer-des-Champs	45	188 km NW	279	15.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %

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