Lérigneux

Loire · CA Loire Forez Agglomération (LFA) · INSEE 42121

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

Few services 27/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 87 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lérigneux (INSEE 42121) is in Loire (42), part of CA Loire Forez Agglomération (LFA). Population 173 (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/42121-lerigneux

Vitality score

Vitality score 27/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 87 % of the 15,096 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.97	10	9.66
Housing mix	0.35	5	1.73

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 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 food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LE COIN DES ECUREUILS). ^[3,4]

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), 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)	1	LE COIN DES ECUREUILS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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	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: 187 2023: 173 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 155 (2012) → 173 (2023): 11.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 118 (1990) → 173 (2023): 46.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 113, of which 32.7 % second homes and 5.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 4.2 km NEBakery — 4.3 km NEPharmacy — 7.1 km E 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 (Essertines-en-Châtelneuf): 4.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lérigneux): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Essertines-en-Châtelneuf): 4.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Montbrison): 7.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Lérigneux): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.2

Days at or below 0 °C 96.5▸

Muggy days a summer 0

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 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 97 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the VERRIERES EN FO weather station, 4.6 km away at 770 m; the village itself is at 927 m. ^[11]

The village sits 157 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CHALMAZEL_RA, 14.3 km away at 990 m, over 22 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 63 m above 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 873 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 7.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at VERRIERES EN FO, 4.6 km away at 770 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 — 42121/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42121/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42121/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42121/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42089
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42121
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42147
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
Giscos	33	358 km SW	183	23.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 3 % · winter 39 %
Sivignon	71	101 km NE	178	14.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 32 % · humidity 93 %
Thauron	23	172 km W	166	14.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Aulon	23	184 km W	163	12.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 26 % · humidity 93 %
Feings	61	413 km NW	194	12.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 32 % · humidity 93 %
Vielmanay	58	196 km N	173	13.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 41 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sivignon	71	101 km NE	178	14.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 32 % · humidity 93 %
Thauron	23	172 km W	166	14.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Aulon	23	184 km W	163	12.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 26 % · humidity 93 %
Vielmanay	58	196 km N	173	13.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 41 % · humidity 79 %
Giscos	33	358 km SW	183	23.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 3 % · winter 39 %
Feings	61	413 km NW	194	12.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 32 % · 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 Lérigneux'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-Agnant-près-Crocq	23	127 km W	193	7.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Joursac	15	91 km SW	160	5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Jabrun	15	118 km SW	149	7.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Arrentès-de-Corcieux	88	359 km NE	169	15.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Peyrusse	15	86 km SW	140	1.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martial-le-Vieux	23	129 km W	150	14.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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