Champoly

Loire · CC du Pays d'Urfé · INSEE 42047

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

Few services 27.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 69 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Champoly (INSEE 42047) is in Loire (42), part of CC du Pays d'Urfé. Population 311 (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/42047-champoly

Vitality score

Vitality score 27.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 69 % of the 17,918 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.51	10	5.13
Housing mix	0.5	5	2.48

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

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (CHAMPOLY AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE - CHAMPOLY MULTI SERVICES D'URFÉ). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[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	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE RENE ROCHE	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	1	CHAMPOLY AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE - CHAMPOLY MULTI SERVICES D'URFÉ	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: 437 2023: 311 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 309 (2012) → 311 (2023): 0.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 307 (1990) → 311 (2023): 1.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 238, of which 25.2 % second homes and 8.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.1 km EBakery — 3.3 km WGP — 6.5 km NPharmacy — 10.8 km W 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 (Les Salles): 3.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Martin-la-Sauveté): 3.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Just-en-Chevalet): 6.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Chabreloche): 10.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Champoly): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 11.7

Days at or below 0 °C 111.9▸

Muggy days a summer 0.8

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 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 112 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the ST-JUST-EN-CHEV weather station, 5.8 km away at 612 m; the village itself is at 719 m. ^[13]

The village sits 107 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. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at ST-JUST-EN-CHEV, 5.8 km away at 612 m, over 10 summers. ^[13]

That station sits 107 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[13]

An average of 890 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at ST-JUST-EN-CHEV, 5.8 km away at 612 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42047/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42047/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42047/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42047/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42295
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42260
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42248
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63072
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42047
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
Vieure	03	103 km NW	277	27.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 36 %
Félines	43	66 km S	298	27.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Sorbier	03	58 km N	318	29.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 15 % · humidity 100 %
Laprugne	03	16 km NW	308	15.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 26 % · humidity 100 %
Ladinhac	15	160 km SW	434	28.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 14 % · humidity 93 %
Bonnefont	65	400 km SW	314	18.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 4 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Laprugne	03	16 km NW	308	15.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 26 % · humidity 100 %
Sorbier	03	58 km N	318	29.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 15 % · humidity 100 %
Félines	43	66 km S	298	27.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Vieure	03	103 km NW	277	27.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 36 %
Ladinhac	15	160 km SW	434	28.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 14 % · humidity 93 %
Bonnefont	65	400 km SW	314	18.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 4 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Champoly'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
Rencurel	38	153 km SE	358	32.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Just-en-Bas	42	15 km S	281	24	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Chausseterre	42	5.7 km NW	212	26.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Antrenas	48	149 km S	331	26.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Georges-en-Couzan	42	19 km SE	430	32.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Sannat	23	114 km W	349	26.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

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