Cherier

Loire · CC du Pays d'Urfé · INSEE 42061

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

Few services 27.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 50 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cherier (INSEE 42061) is in Loire (42), part of CC du Pays d'Urfé. Population 523 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 27.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 50 % of the 17,664 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.59	10	5.85
Housing mix	0.7	5	3.48

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

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

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LES MOULINS	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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE - CHERIER	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: 647 2023: 523 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 495 (2012) → 523 (2023): 5.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 482 (1990) → 523 (2023): 8.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 309, of which 15.2 % second homes and 11.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 5.3 km NEFood shop — 5.4 km NEGP — 6.4 km NEPharmacy — 7.8 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 (Saint-Alban-les-Eaux): 5.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Alban-les-Eaux): 5.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Lentigny): 6.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-André-d'Apchon): 7.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Cherier): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 11

Days at or below 0 °C 73.6

Muggy days a summer 5.5

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 11 days a year at or above 30 °C and 74 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ST-ANDRE-APCHON weather station, 6.9 km away at 380 m; the village itself is at 666 m. ^[12]

The village sits 286 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ST-ANDRE-APCHON, 6.9 km away at 380 m, over 10 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 286 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 849 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at CREMEAUX, 6.6 km away at 668 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 — 42061/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42061/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42061/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42061/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42198
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42120
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42199
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42061
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
Trézioux	63	44 km SW	502	35.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Frugie	24	230 km W	520	29.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 51 % · humidity 64 %
Morlhon-le-Haut	12	233 km SW	555	27.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 93 % · humidity 64 %
Esquiule	64	478 km SW	522	31.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 46 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Sylvestre	07	127 km SE	513	31.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 46 % · humidity 64 %
Serley	71	135 km NE	600	29	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 91 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Trézioux	63	44 km SW	502	35.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Sylvestre	07	127 km SE	513	31.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 46 % · humidity 64 %
Serley	71	135 km NE	600	29	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 91 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Frugie	24	230 km W	520	29.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 51 % · humidity 64 %
Morlhon-le-Haut	12	233 km SW	555	27.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 93 % · humidity 64 %
Esquiule	64	478 km SW	522	31.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 46 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Cherier'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
Le Cuing	31	408 km SW	482	36.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Viricelles	42	50 km SE	449	25.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Barbazan	31	417 km SW	512	31.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Ouen-sur-Morin	77	331 km N	529	19.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Les Tourreilles	31	414 km SW	376	21	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Boitron	77	330 km N	322	20.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %

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