Saint-Loup

Allier · CC Saint-Pourçain Sioule Limagne · INSEE 03242

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

Few services 30.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 54 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Loup (INSEE 03242) is in Allier (03), part of CC Saint-Pourçain Sioule Limagne. Population 575 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 30.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 54 % of the 17,327 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.43	10	4.29
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.86

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (MICKAEL TRAITEUR). ^[4]

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

1 × Library (MAIRIE DE SAINT-LOUP). ^[3]

1 × Hotel (LE RELAIS DE LA ROUTE BLEUE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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	2	MICKAEL TRAITEUR	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LES PETITS LOUPS	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-LOUP	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]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	LE RELAIS DE LA ROUTE BLEUE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 597 peak 1982: 621 2023: 575 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 545 (2012) → 575 (2023): 5.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 619 (1990) → 575 (2023): -7.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 290, of which 1.4 % second homes and 5.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 0.5 km SEFood shop — 3.7 km SBakery — 4.0 km SGP — 4.3 km SEPharmacy — 8.2 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 (Varennes-sur-Allier): 4 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Varennes-sur-Allier): 3.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Varennes-sur-Allier): 4.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule): 8.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Loup): 0.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 26

Days at or below 0 °C 65.2

Muggy days a summer 2.9

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 26 days a year at or above 30 °C and 65 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the FERTE-HAUTERIVE weather station, 4.6 km away at 226 m; the village itself is at 239 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at FERTE-HAUTERIVE, 4.6 km away at 226 m, over 17 summers. ^[11]

An average of 725 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at FERTE-HAUTERIVE, 4.6 km away at 226 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 — 03242/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03242/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03242/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03242/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03298
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03254
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03242
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
Moyenneville	60	354 km N	575	29.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Le Crouais	35	465 km NW	592	34.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Revelles	80	400 km N	530	30	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Floris	62	479 km N	618	34.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 64 % · humidity 86 %
Penguily	22	496 km NW	617	34	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 68 % · humidity 86 %
Bonningues-lès-Calais	62	518 km N	597	33.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 55 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Moyenneville	60	354 km N	575	29.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Revelles	80	400 km N	530	30	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Le Crouais	35	465 km NW	592	34.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Floris	62	479 km N	618	34.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 64 % · humidity 86 %
Penguily	22	496 km NW	617	34	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 68 % · humidity 86 %
Bonningues-lès-Calais	62	518 km N	597	33.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 55 % · humidity 79 %

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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-Loup'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-Sixte	42	79 km SE	669	29.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Schœnenbourg	67	446 km NE	720	29.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Unias	42	106 km SE	469	36.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Mesnil-Saint-Loup	10	219 km N	579	22.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Paray-sous-Briailles	03	6.9 km S	616	38.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Lempty	63	58 km S	417	34	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

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