Graix

Loire · CC des Monts du Pilat · INSEE 42101

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

No daily shops 15.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 55 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Graix (INSEE 42101) is in Loire (42), part of CC des Monts du Pilat. Population 128 (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/42101-graix

Vitality score

Vitality score 15.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 55 % of the 12,751 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.48	10	4.77
Housing mix	0.43	5	2.14

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	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)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [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	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: 138 peak 2012: 149 2023: 128 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 149 (2012) → 128 (2023): -14.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 131 (1990) → 128 (2023): -2.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 105, of which 28.6 % second homes and 7.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 4.5 km SEFood shop — 4.5 km SEGP — 4.5 km SEPharmacy — 4.6 km SEPrimary school — 4.8 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 (Saint-Julien-Molin-Molette): 4.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Julien-Molin-Molette): 4.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Julien-Molin-Molette): 4.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Julien-Molin-Molette): 4.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Julien-Molin-Molette): 4.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 2.6▸

Days at or below 0 °C 73.9

Muggy days a summer 0.3

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 3 days a year at or above 30 °C and 74 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the PILAT GRAIX weather station, 1.7 km away at 1,164 m; the village itself is at 982 m. ^[9]

The village sits 182 m below 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. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at PILAT GRAIX, 1.7 km away at 1,164 m, over 18 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 182 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 1,031 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 8.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at PILAT GRAIX, 1.7 km away at 1,164 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42101/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42101/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42101/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42101/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42246
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
Saint-Julien-le-Roux	07	54 km S	127	17.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Rirand	42	98 km NW	132	16.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 93 % · humidity 43 %
Roiville	61	512 km NW	133	15.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 51 % · humidity 86 %
Guerquesalles	61	515 km NW	122	17.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 43 %
Saint-Antonin-sur-Bayon	13	219 km S	126	13.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 8 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Arandas	01	94 km NE	138	20.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Julien-le-Roux	07	54 km S	127	17.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Arandas	01	94 km NE	138	20.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Rirand	42	98 km NW	132	16.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 93 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Antonin-sur-Bayon	13	219 km S	126	13.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 8 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Roiville	61	512 km NW	133	15.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 51 % · humidity 86 %
Guerquesalles	61	515 km NW	122	17.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 43 %

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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 Graix'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
Mazoires	63	119 km W	97	11.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Brazey-en-Morvan	21	204 km N	155	8.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Englancourt	02	511 km N	122	11.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Villargoix	21	217 km N	147	7.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Amathay-Vésigneux	25	225 km NE	175	19.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Savennes	63	164 km W	96	11.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

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