Bessey

Loire · CC du Pilat Rhodanien · INSEE 42018

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

Few services 28/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 56 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bessey (INSEE 42018) is in Loire (42), part of CC du Pilat Rhodanien. Population 465 (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/42018-bessey

Vitality score

Vitality score 28/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 56 % of the 17,947 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	0.49	20	9.82
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.79	5	3.95

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 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”.

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

4 × Restaurant (TRANCHAND AGNES THIVOLLE RAPHAEL). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LE GITAN ROULOTTE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[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	4	TRANCHAND AGNES THIVOLLE RAPHAEL	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [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	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	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	1	CAMPING LE GITAN ROULOTTE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 229 2023: 465 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 410 (2012) → 465 (2023): 13.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 263 (1990) → 465 (2023): 76.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 228, of which 10.5 % second homes and 7.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 1.2 km NWPrimary school — 1.5 km SEGP — 2.5 km SWFood shop — 2.6 km SPharmacy — 4.2 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 (Roisey): 1.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Maclas): 2.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Maclas): 2.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Pierre-de-Bœuf): 4.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Lupé): 1.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21.3

Days at or below 0 °C 56.7

Muggy days a summer 1

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 57 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the BESSEY weather station, 0.8 km away at 425 m; the village itself is at 381 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at BESSEY, 0.8 km away at 425 m, over 26 summers. ^[12]

An average of 751 mm of rain a year, spread over 98 days — about 7.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at BESSEY, 0.8 km away at 425 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42018/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42018/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42018/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42018/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42191
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42129
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42272
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42124
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
Le Torpt	27	546 km NW	469	23.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Ganzeville	76	581 km NW	454	19.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 51 % · winter 42 %
Dampierre-sous-Brou	28	416 km NW	443	17.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Grumesnil	76	521 km NW	485	23.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Chalais	86	396 km NW	465	15.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Antogny-le-Tillac	37	362 km NW	485	18.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 100 % · winter 74 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Antogny-le-Tillac	37	362 km NW	485	18.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 100 % · winter 74 %
Chalais	86	396 km NW	465	15.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Dampierre-sous-Brou	28	416 km NW	443	17.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Grumesnil	76	521 km NW	485	23.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Le Torpt	27	546 km NW	469	23.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Ganzeville	76	581 km NW	454	19.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 51 % · winter 42 %

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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 Bessey'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
Beaumotte-Aubertans	70	253 km NE	475	22.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Aubin-sur-Yonne	89	309 km N	434	22.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Chaptuzat	63	138 km NW	485	23.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Christophe	73	85 km E	545	22.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Bucey-en-Othe	10	326 km N	430	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Senantes	28	433 km NW	528	23.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

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