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Cleppé

Loire · CC de Forez-Est · INSEE 42066

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

Partly served 45.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 89 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cleppé (INSEE 42066) is in Loire (42), part of CC de Forez-Est. Population 572 (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/42066-cleppe

Vitality score

Vitality score 45.3/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 89 % of the 17,339 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0.862017.29
Education0.63106.32
Health0100
Public & culture0.3251.58
Population trend0.92109.16
Housing mix0.8354.15

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 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]

2 × Restaurant. [3,4]

2 × Café / bar. [4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE STE FOY ST SULPICE CLEPPE). [3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE - CLEPPÉ). [3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant2INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar2INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE PRIMAIRE STE FOY ST SULPICE CLEPPEINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library1BIBLIOTHÈQUE - CLEPPÉINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 456 2023: 572 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 570 (2012) → 572 (2023): 0.4 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 404 (1990) → 572 (2023): 41.6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 293, of which 8.5 % second homes and 7.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 3.4 km SE (Civens)GP — 4.1 km SE (Feurs)Bakery — 4.2 km W (Sainte-Foy-Saint-Sulpice)Pharmacy — 4.3 km SE (Feurs)
In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.4 km SEGP — 4.1 km SEBakery — 4.2 km WPharmacy — 4.3 km SE 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 (Sainte-Foy-Saint-Sulpice): 4.2 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Civens): 3.4 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Feurs): 4.1 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Feurs): 4.3 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Cleppé): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). [11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 36 days a year at or above 30 °C and 70 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the FEURS - MAN weather station, 5 km away at 332 m; the village itself is at 348 m. [12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 19 days a summer. [12]

Humidity measured at FEURS, 5.3 km away at 347 m, over 10 summers. [12]

An average of 724 mm of rain a year, spread over 102 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at FEURS - MAN, 5 km away at 332 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42066/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42066/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42066/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42066/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 42221
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 42065
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 42094
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 42066
  12. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Flagy77298 km N58439.7Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 59 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Aignan-le-Jaillard45256 km NW59635.3Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 84 % · humidity 0 %
Courtomer77335 km N59137.4Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 78 % · humidity 0 %
Sougy-sur-Loire58135 km NW59437.3Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 92 % · humidity 0 %
Monétay-sur-Allier0396 km NW53642Partly servedCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 100 % · humidity 0 %
Lyas07119 km S59236.7Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 68 % · humidity 0 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Monétay-sur-Allier0396 km NW53642Partly servedCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 100 % · humidity 0 %
Lyas07119 km S59236.7Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 68 % · humidity 0 %
Sougy-sur-Loire58135 km NW59437.3Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 92 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Aignan-le-Jaillard45256 km NW59635.3Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 84 % · humidity 0 %
Flagy77298 km N58439.7Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 59 % · humidity 0 %
Courtomer77335 km N59137.4Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 78 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Cleppé'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Salt-en-Donzy429.1 km SE53542.5Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Chambéon428.2 km S66545Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Magneux-Haute-Rive4211 km S55545.8Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Laurent-la-Conche429.8 km S57333.1Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Marclopt4212 km S55235.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Valeille4212 km SE67539.3Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %