Burdignes

Loire · CC des Monts du Pilat · INSEE 42028

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

Partly served 41/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 87 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Burdignes (INSEE 42028) is in Loire (42), part of CC des Monts du Pilat. Population 422 (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/42028-burdignes

Vitality score

Vitality score 41/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 87 % of the 17,974 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	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.73	10	7.34
Housing mix	0.65	5	3.27

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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) (HAUT LES PAINS, SAVONNERIE DU FUTUR). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (FERME LINOSSIER). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), 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)	1	HAUT LES PAINS, SAVONNERIE DU FUTUR	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	1	FERME LINOSSIER	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE BOURG	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	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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 422 2023: 422 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 347 (2012) → 422 (2023): 21.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 342 (1990) → 422 (2023): 23.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 271, of which 17.3 % second homes and 10.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 0.9 km WGP — 2.8 km NFood shop — 3.0 km NPharmacy — 3.0 km N 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 (Burdignes): 0.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bourg-Argental): 3 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Bourg-Argental): 2.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Bourg-Argental): 3 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Burdignes): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8.3

Days at or below 0 °C 92.9

Muggy days a summer 0.3

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 8 days a year at or above 30 °C and 93 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the BG-ARGENT - MAN weather station, 3 km away at 562 m; the village itself is at 895 m. ^[10]

The village sits 333 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 0 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at PILAT GRAIX, 10.2 km away at 1,164 m, over 18 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 269 m above 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 914 mm of rain a year, spread over 105 days — about 8.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BG-ARGENT - MAN, 3 km away at 562 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 — 42028/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42028/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42028/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42028/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42028
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42023
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
Tamniès	24	270 km W	414	43.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 32 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-des-Prés	22	664 km NW	319	35.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 5 % · humidity 93 %
Plourac'h	22	709 km NW	351	35	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 11 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Mars-sur-Colmont	53	529 km NW	440	31.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 28 % · humidity 93 %
Ciral	61	506 km NW	409	30.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 42 % · humidity 100 %
Madiran	65	414 km SW	424	36.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 26 % · winter 41 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Tamniès	24	270 km W	414	43.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 32 % · humidity 93 %
Madiran	65	414 km SW	424	36.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 26 % · winter 41 %
Ciral	61	506 km NW	409	30.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 42 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Mars-sur-Colmont	53	529 km NW	440	31.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 28 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-des-Prés	22	664 km NW	319	35.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 5 % · humidity 93 %
Plourac'h	22	709 km NW	351	35	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 11 % · 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 Burdignes'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-Julien-Puy-Lavèze	63	154 km W	360	17.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-en-Vercors	26	74 km E	437	49.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Le Brignon	43	65 km SW	617	36.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Le Vernet-Sainte-Marguerite	63	132 km W	327	28.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Charensat	63	170 km NW	470	36	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Les Bessons	48	117 km SW	421	16	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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