Marcoux

Loire · CA Loire Forez Agglomération (LFA) · INSEE 42136

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

Few services 33.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 54 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Marcoux (INSEE 42136) is in Loire (42), part of CA Loire Forez Agglomération (LFA). Population 781 (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/42136-marcoux

Vitality score

Vitality score 33.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 54 % of the 15,780 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	9.96
Housing mix	0.88	5	4.4

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 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 (LOGE AUX VIGNES). ^[3,4]

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

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

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

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. ^[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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	LOGE AUX VIGNES	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE - MARCOUX	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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 451 2023: 781 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 772 (2012) → 781 (2023): 1.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 522 (1990) → 781 (2023): 49.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 403, of which 6 % second homes and 8.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 1.8 km NEBakery — 1.9 km SEGP — 3.7 km NPharmacy — 4.0 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 (Marcilly-le-Châtel): 1.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Trelins): 1.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Boën-sur-Lignon): 3.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Boën-sur-Lignon): 4 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Marcoux): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 26.7

Days at or below 0 °C 63.2

Muggy days a summer 2.1

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 63 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the BOEN-LIGN - MAN weather station, 5 km away at 447 m; the village itself is at 487 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at BOEN SUR LIGNON, 5 km away at 448 m, over 19 summers. ^[12]

An average of 787 mm of rain a year, spread over 115 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ST GEORGES EN C, 4.6 km away at 496 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42136/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42136/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42136/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42136/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42134
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42313
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42019
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42136
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
Monthou-sur-Bièvre	41	286 km NW	793	33.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 91 %
Le Tablier	85	423 km W	765	33.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Gemmes-le-Robert	53	433 km NW	773	27.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 80 %
Saint-Paul-sur-Yenne	73	138 km E	747	33.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
La Combe-de-Lancey	38	157 km E	745	36.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 57 % · humidity 86 %
Toulonjac	12	217 km SW	755	29.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Paul-sur-Yenne	73	138 km E	747	33.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
La Combe-de-Lancey	38	157 km E	745	36.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 57 % · humidity 86 %
Toulonjac	12	217 km SW	755	29.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Monthou-sur-Bièvre	41	286 km NW	793	33.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 91 %
Le Tablier	85	423 km W	765	33.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Gemmes-le-Robert	53	433 km NW	773	27.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 80 %

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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 Marcoux'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-Martin-le-Châtel	01	106 km NE	796	33.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Curtafond	01	104 km NE	825	34.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Les Haies	69	62 km E	723	30.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Saulcet	03	90 km NW	657	29.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Abergement-la-Ronce	39	183 km NE	827	34.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Boismorand	45	251 km NW	860	36.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

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