Arcinges

Loire · CC Charlieu-Belmont · INSEE 42007

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

Few services 22.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 67 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Arcinges (INSEE 42007) is in Loire (42), part of CC Charlieu-Belmont. Population 216 (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/42007-arcinges

Vitality score

Vitality score 22.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 67 % of the 16,448 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.47	5	2.36

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 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 food shop, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (ROULEBOULE). ^[3,4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE - ARCINGES). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	ROULEBOULE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE - ARCINGES	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: 155 2023: 216 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 200 (2012) → 216 (2023): 8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 122 (1990) → 216 (2023): 77 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 125, of which 26.4 % second homes and 3.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery Primary school — 1.6 km SWFood shop — 5.2 km SEPharmacy — 5.2 km SEGP — 5.4 km SE 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 (Arcinges): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Cours): 5.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Cours): 5.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Cours): 5.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Cuinzier): 1.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 24

Days at or below 0 °C 88.6

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 24 days a year at or above 30 °C and 89 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ST DENIS DE CAB weather station, 6.6 km away at 287 m; the village itself is at 519 m. ^[11]

The village sits 232 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CHARLIEU, 8.8 km away at 278 m, over 10 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 241 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 890 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ST DENIS DE CAB, 6.6 km away at 287 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 — 42007/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42007/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42007/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42007/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42007
INSEE BPE 2025 — 69066
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42079
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
Finestret	66	416 km S	204	21.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 51 % · humidity 71 %
Selles	70	245 km NE	224	12	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Damrémont	52	227 km NE	198	10.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Le Noyer	73	147 km E	230	33.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 30 % · humidity 93 %
Tréduder	22	653 km NW	210	14	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 0 % · humidity 100 %
Lauroux	34	274 km S	214	15	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 7 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Le Noyer	73	147 km E	230	33.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 30 % · humidity 93 %
Damrémont	52	227 km NE	198	10.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Selles	70	245 km NE	224	12	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Lauroux	34	274 km S	214	15	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 7 % · humidity 64 %
Finestret	66	416 km S	204	21.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 51 % · humidity 71 %
Tréduder	22	653 km NW	210	14	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 0 % · 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 Arcinges'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
Cerzat	43	125 km SW	220	19.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Lascaux	19	243 km W	228	12.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Notre-Dame-du-Cruet	73	179 km SE	222	15.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Grenant	52	198 km NE	148	9.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Glamondans	25	197 km NE	195	16.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Dammartin-les-Templiers	25	198 km NE	218	16	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

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