Lupé

Loire · CC du Pilat Rhodanien · INSEE 42124

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

Few services 31.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 79 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lupé (INSEE 42124) is in Loire (42), part of CC du Pilat Rhodanien. Population 314 (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/42124-lupe

Vitality score

Vitality score 31.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 79 % of the 17,926 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	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.84	5	4.21

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

1 × Restaurant (AUBERGE DE LUPE). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[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, 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)	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	AUBERGE DE LUPE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
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: 161 peak 2012: 319 2023: 314 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 319 (2012) → 314 (2023): -1.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 208 (1990) → 314 (2023): 51 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 164, of which 7.9 % second homes and 10.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.0 km SWGP — 2.0 km SWBakery — 2.1 km SWPharmacy — 3.6 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 (Maclas): 2.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Maclas): 2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Maclas): 2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Pierre-de-Bœuf): 3.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Lupé): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 25.2

Days at or below 0 °C 49.8

Muggy days a summer 1.4

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 25 days a year at or above 30 °C and 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the BESSEY weather station, 2.3 km away at 425 m; the village itself is at 330 m. ^[11]

The village sits 95 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at BESSEY, 2.3 km away at 425 m, over 26 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 95 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 751 mm of rain a year, spread over 98 days — about 7.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at BESSEY, 2.3 km away at 425 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 — 42124/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42124/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42124/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42124/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42129
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42272
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42124
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
Villard-Sallet	73	113 km E	310	30.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Thizay	37	403 km NW	307	30.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Le Mayet-d'École	03	144 km NW	304	29.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
La Champenoise	36	284 km NW	310	28.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Dagny	77	390 km N	305	27.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Étienne-Roilaye	60	462 km N	301	27.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Villard-Sallet	73	113 km E	310	30.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Le Mayet-d'École	03	144 km NW	304	29.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
La Champenoise	36	284 km NW	310	28.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Dagny	77	390 km N	305	27.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Thizay	37	403 km NW	307	30.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Étienne-Roilaye	60	462 km N	301	27.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 92 % · 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 Lupé'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 Mayet-d'École	03	144 km NW	304	29.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Chassy	71	143 km N	296	24.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Thénésol	73	137 km E	326	29	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Champvoux	58	234 km NW	282	24.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Colombier	24	335 km W	285	31.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Lureuil	36	321 km NW	274	25.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

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