L'Étrat

Loire · Saint-Étienne Métropole · INSEE 42092

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

Served 63.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 94 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

L'Étrat (INSEE 42092) is in Loire (42), part of Saint-Étienne Métropole. Population 2,879 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Grands centres urbains (level 1). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/42092-l-etrat

Vitality score

Vitality score 63.2/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 94 % of the 7,363 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	0.55	25	13.76
Social	0.68	20	13.63
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.69	10	6.88
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.64	10	6.41
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.74

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 2 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]

4 × Bakery (boulangerie) (FARINER · ANGE · FARINE ET CHOCOLAT). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE BREYSSE). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (INTERMARCHE). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (CARREFOUR EXPRESS). ^[3,4]

7 × Restaurant (LE COMPTOIR DE L'ETRAT · LA PAUSE 2 · CANICATTI · LA CABANE A JE · ETABLISSEMENT PITRUZZELLA). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LA PERMISSION DE MIDI). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUB LES OLLIERES · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINT JOSEPH). ^[3]

8 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ESTELLE VIALA, MÉDECIN · MANON CARETTE, MÉDECIN · ELODIE DE MAGALHAES, MÉDECIN · MARION HACQUARD, MÉDECIN · PHILIPPE WISDORFF, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE - L'ÉTRAT). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (ESPACE GABRIEL ROUCHON). ^[3]

1 × Bank (SOCIETE GENERALE). ^[3]

6 × Hairdresser (ATELIER DE CAROLE · SAS ATHOS COIFFURE · LE JOLI COCOON). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Pharmacy.

Not found in the commune: Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	4	FARINER · ANGE · FARINE ET CHOCOLAT	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE BREYSSE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	INTERMARCHE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	CARREFOUR EXPRESS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	7	LE COMPTOIR DE L'ETRAT · LA PAUSE 2 · CANICATTI · LA CABANE A JE · ETABLISSEMENT PITRUZZELLA	INSEE BPE 7 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LA PERMISSION DE MIDI	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUB LES OLLIERES · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINT JOSEPH	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	8	ESTELLE VIALA, MÉDECIN · MANON CARETTE, MÉDECIN · ELODIE DE MAGALHAES, MÉDECIN · MARION HACQUARD, MÉDECIN · PHILIPPE WISDORFF, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 8 [3]
Pharmacy	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE - L'ÉTRAT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	ESPACE GABRIEL ROUCHON	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	1	SOCIETE GENERALE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Hairdresser	6	ATELIER DE CAROLE · SAS ATHOS COIFFURE · LE JOLI COCOON	INSEE BPE 6 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [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: 1,523 2023: 2,879 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,684 (2012) → 2,879 (2023): 7.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 2,524 (1990) → 2,879 (2023): 14.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,487, of which 2.6 % second homes and 6.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 1.7 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 (L'Étrat): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (L'Étrat): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (L'Étrat): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Priest-en-Jarez): 1.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (L'Étrat): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 28.3

Days at or below 0 °C 56.4

Muggy days a summer 1.2

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 28 days a year at or above 30 °C and 56 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ST-ETIENNE - CT weather station, 2.3 km away at 482 m; the village itself is at 452 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at SAINT-ETIENNE, 5.6 km away at 640 m, over 22 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 188 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 778 mm of rain a year, spread over 102 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ST-ETIENNE - CT, 2.3 km away at 482 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 — 42092/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42092/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42092/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42092/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42092
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42275
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
La Sentinelle	59	545 km N	3,103	44.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Rivery	80	515 km N	3,636	41.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Sochaux	25	293 km NE	3,721	57.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Andilly	95	422 km N	2,742	56.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 73 % · humidity 71 %
Montlignon	95	422 km N	3,038	39.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 73 % · humidity 64 %
Beaurains	62	544 km N	5,559	56.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sochaux	25	293 km NE	3,721	57.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Andilly	95	422 km N	2,742	56.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 73 % · humidity 71 %
Montlignon	95	422 km N	3,038	39.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 73 % · humidity 64 %
Rivery	80	515 km N	3,636	41.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Beaurains	62	544 km N	5,559	56.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
La Sentinelle	59	545 km N	3,103	44.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 86 % · 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 L'Étrat'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-Priest-en-Jarez	42	1.4 km S	6,471	68.1	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Julien-les-Villas	10	311 km N	6,760	60.4	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Le Coteau	42	65 km N	6,845	62.4	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Genis-les-Ollières	69	41 km NE	5,439	45.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Cognin	73	119 km E	6,954	52	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Davézieux	07	36 km SE	3,205	69.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

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