Maclas

Loire · CC du Pilat Rhodanien · INSEE 42129

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

Served 72.7/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 100 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Maclas (INSEE 42129) is in Loire (42), part of CC du Pilat Rhodanien. Population 1,868 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/42129-maclas

Vitality score

Vitality score 72.7/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 100 % of the 10,039 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	0.63	25	15.8
Social	0.86	20	17.27
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.63	10	6.29
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.95	10	9.49
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.67

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 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 1 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) (GARNIER-EPERDUSSIN · MANDJ). ^[3,4]

2 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE FOVET). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (PETIT CASINO · VIVAL BY CASINO). ^[3,4]

6 × Restaurant (LOL PIZZA · LES SENS CIEL · WHAT'S YOUR NEMS · LA CASAEAUX · CHEZ ADELE). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar (ENTRE AMIS). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LE BOURG PRIMAIRE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE LA BRISE DU PILAT). ^[3]

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (BÉNÉDICTE PRÉMILLEUX, MÉDECIN · FRANÇOIS LABASTE, MÉDECIN · CHRISTINE DOMMERC, MÉDECIN · DIMITRI LUTENCO, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE MACLAS). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE - MACLAS). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF DE LACHAT). ^[3]

1 × Bank (CAISSE EPARGNE PREVO LOIRE DROME ARDECHE). ^[3]

4 × Hairdresser (M COIFF HAIR · STUDIO SANDY · EURL NATUR'LR · MZELLE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (AIRE NATURELLE DE CAMPING LES CERISIERS). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant, 1 × Pharmacy, 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	GARNIER-EPERDUSSIN · MANDJ	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	2	BOUCHERIE FOVET	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	PETIT CASINO · VIVAL BY CASINO	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [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	6	LOL PIZZA · LES SENS CIEL · WHAT'S YOUR NEMS · LA CASAEAUX · CHEZ ADELE	INSEE BPE 6 / INSEE SIRENE 14 [3,4]
Café / bar	3	ENTRE AMIS	INSEE SIRENE 3 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LE BOURG PRIMAIRE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE LA BRISE DU PILAT	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	4	BÉNÉDICTE PRÉMILLEUX, MÉDECIN · FRANÇOIS LABASTE, MÉDECIN · CHRISTINE DOMMERC, MÉDECIN · DIMITRI LUTENCO, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE MACLAS	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	MÉDIATHÈQUE - MACLAS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF DE LACHAT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	1	CAISSE EPARGNE PREVO LOIRE DROME ARDECHE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Hairdresser	4	M COIFF HAIR · STUDIO SANDY · EURL NATUR'LR · MZELLE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	1	AIRE NATURELLE DE CAMPING LES CERISIERS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 1,111 2023: 1,868 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,740 (2012) → 1,868 (2023): 7.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,289 (1990) → 1,868 (2023): 44.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 996, of which 3.3 % second homes and 8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 5.6 km NE 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): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Maclas): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Maclas): 0.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Pierre-de-Bœuf): 5.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Maclas): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21.3

Days at or below 0 °C 56.7

Muggy days a summer 1

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 57 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the BESSEY weather station, 3 km away at 425 m; the village itself is at 403 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at BESSEY, 3 km away at 425 m, over 26 summers. ^[10]

An average of 751 mm of rain a year, spread over 98 days — about 7.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BESSEY, 3 km away at 425 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42129/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42129/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42129/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42129/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42129
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42272
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
Villeneuve-le-Comte	77	409 km N	1,872	62.5	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Médréac	35	607 km NW	1,853	52	Partly served	no figures
Coray	29	715 km NW	1,856	60.7	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 51 % · humidity 93 %
Pont-Hébert	50	610 km NW	1,897	45	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Gilley	25	233 km NE	1,842	60.6	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Amant-Tallende	63	128 km W	1,866	59	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Amant-Tallende	63	128 km W	1,866	59	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Gilley	25	233 km NE	1,842	60.6	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Villeneuve-le-Comte	77	409 km N	1,872	62.5	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Médréac	35	607 km NW	1,853	52	Partly served	no figures
Pont-Hébert	50	610 km NW	1,897	45	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Coray	29	715 km NW	1,856	60.7	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 51 % · 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 Maclas'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-Amant-Tallende	63	128 km W	1,866	59	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire	45	327 km NW	1,982	55.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Bonneuil-Matours	86	350 km NW	2,081	59.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Beauzire	63	129 km NW	2,210	60.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Saclas	91	386 km NW	1,819	50	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Villé	67	387 km NE	1,799	57.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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