Machézal

Loire · CC du Pays Entre Loire et Rhône · INSEE 42128

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

Partly served 52.3/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 96 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Machézal (INSEE 42128) is in Loire (42), part of CC du Pays Entre Loire et Rhône. Population 403 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 52.3/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 96 % of the 17,998 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	0.29	25	7.21
Social	0.79	20	15.82
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.82	10	8.17
Housing mix	0.76	5	3.79

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (CASS'NOISETTE). ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (L'AUBERGE DU VIADUC · LE MYRRHIS). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (RENAISSANCE). ^[4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (MACHEZAL AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE - MACHÉZAL). ^[3]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	CASS'NOISETTE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	3	L'AUBERGE DU VIADUC · LE MYRRHIS	INSEE SIRENE 3 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	RENAISSANCE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	MACHEZAL AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE - MACHÉZAL	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 353 peak 2012: 416 2023: 403 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 416 (2012) → 403 (2023): -3.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 306 (1990) → 403 (2023): 31.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 215, of which 12.1 % second homes and 12.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 0.6 km NEGP — 5.7 km NEFood shop — 5.9 km SWPharmacy — 6.0 km N 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 (Machézal): 0.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Just-la-Pendue): 5.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Amplepuis): 5.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Amplepuis): 6 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Machézal): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16

Days at or below 0 °C 55

Muggy days a summer 9

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 55 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MACHEZAL weather station, 1.1 km away at 608 m; the village itself is at 618 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at NEULISE, 9.7 km away at 557 m, over 10 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 61 m below 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 816 mm of rain a year, spread over 116 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MACHEZAL, 1.1 km away at 608 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42128/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42128/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42128/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42128/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42128
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42249
INSEE BPE 2025 — 69006
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
Marray	37	333 km NW	496	51.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 43 %
Limeyrat	24	272 km W	424	41.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 70 % · humidity 64 %
Neufchâtel-sur-Aisne	02	391 km N	424	42.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 43 %
Lerrain	88	284 km NE	461	46.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 50 %
Solomiac	32	357 km SW	496	54	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 23 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Chirassimont	42	1.6 km SW	387	34.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Chirassimont	42	1.6 km SW	387	34.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Limeyrat	24	272 km W	424	41.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 70 % · humidity 64 %
Lerrain	88	284 km NE	461	46.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 50 %
Marray	37	333 km NW	496	51.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 43 %
Solomiac	32	357 km SW	496	54	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 23 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Neufchâtel-sur-Aisne	02	391 km N	424	42.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 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 Machézal'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
Chirassimont	42	1.6 km SW	387	34.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Uzay-le-Venon	18	173 km NW	414	30	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Séron	65	453 km SW	328	38	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Meillant	18	168 km NW	645	27.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Palais	18	205 km NW	610	38.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Michel-de-Volangis	18	194 km NW	474	33.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %

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