Chandon

Loire · CC Charlieu-Belmont · INSEE 42048

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

No daily shops 17.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 1 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chandon (INSEE 42048) is in Loire (42), part of CC Charlieu-Belmont. Population 1,423 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/42048-chandon

Vitality score

Vitality score 17.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 1 % of the 12,011 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	20	0
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.6	10	5.98
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.78

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Hairdresser. ^[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, Café / bar, 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)	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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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: 863 peak 2017: 1,484 2023: 1,423 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,427 (2012) → 1,423 (2023): -0.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,296 (1990) → 1,423 (2023): 9.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 667, of which 2.2 % second homes and 5.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.5 km EBakery — 2.6 km EGP — 2.8 km NFood shop — 3.1 km WPharmacy — 3.2 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 (Mars): 2.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Charlieu): 3.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Denis-de-Cabanne): 2.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Charlieu): 3.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Mars): 2.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 36.6

Days at or below 0 °C 75.5

Muggy days a summer 2

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 37 days a year at or above 30 °C and 76 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ST DENIS DE CAB weather station, 2.7 km away at 287 m; the village itself is at 335 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CHARLIEU, 3.4 km away at 278 m, over 10 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 57 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, 2.7 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 — 42048/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42048/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42048/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42048/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42141
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42052
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42215
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
Germigny-l'Évêque	77	330 km N	1,352	15.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Villeneuve-Saint-Denis	77	315 km N	1,369	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Aubin-des-Bois	28	336 km NW	1,159	20.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Boust	57	394 km N	1,157	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 31 % · winter 92 %
Sarceaux	61	429 km NW	1,063	19.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Fuscien	80	434 km N	1,409	21.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Villeneuve-Saint-Denis	77	315 km N	1,369	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Germigny-l'Évêque	77	330 km N	1,352	15.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Aubin-des-Bois	28	336 km NW	1,159	20.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Boust	57	394 km N	1,157	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 31 % · winter 92 %
Sarceaux	61	429 km NW	1,063	19.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Fuscien	80	434 km N	1,409	21.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Chandon'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
Pérouges	01	79 km E	1,387	36.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Le Breuil-sur-Couze	63	106 km SW	1,028	42.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Varambon	01	86 km E	675	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Apremont	73	153 km SE	979	33.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Venon	38	165 km SE	841	32.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Lamothe	43	111 km SW	819	32.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %

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