Saint-Bonnet-le-Courreau

Loire · CA Loire Forez Agglomération (LFA) · INSEE 42205

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

Partly served 49.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 91 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Bonnet-le-Courreau (INSEE 42205) is in Loire (42), part of CA Loire Forez Agglomération (LFA). Population 677 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-25 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/42205-saint-bonnet-le-courreau

Vitality score

Vitality score 49.2/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 91 % of the 16,558 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	0.5	25	12.47
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.43	10	4.32
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.34	10	3.41
Housing mix	0.69	5	3.47

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

2 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE JEAN HUGUET ET FILS · SALAISONS DU FOREZ CHAZAL). ^[3]

2 × Restaurant (AUBERGE DE GARNIER · LE COEUR DU FOREZ). ^[3,4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JOSEPH MAURIN, MÉDECIN · JULIE DELACOUR, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINT BONNET LE COURREAU LPR RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE - SAINT-BONNET-LE-COURREAU). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (HAIR DE RIEN). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette).

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	2	BOUCHERIE JEAN HUGUET ET FILS · SALAISONS DU FOREZ CHAZAL	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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	2	AUBERGE DE GARNIER · LE COEUR DU FOREZ	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE BOURG	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	JOSEPH MAURIN, MÉDECIN · JULIE DELACOUR, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [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	SAINT BONNET LE COURREAU LPR RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE - SAINT-BONNET-LE-COURREAU	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	2	HAIR DE RIEN	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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

Weekly market (reported, unverified): Sunday 8h00 à 12h00 Place du Plâtre, Le Bourg, 42940 Saint-Bonnet-le-Courreau. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 1,006 2023: 677 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 735 (2012) → 677 (2023): -7.9 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 805 (1990) → 677 (2023): -15.9 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 489, of which 15.3 % second homes and 16.8 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, GP Bakery — 6.6 km SEPharmacy — 8.5 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 (Essertines-en-Châtelneuf): 6.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Saint-Bonnet-le-Courreau): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Saint-Bonnet-le-Courreau): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Sail-sous-Couzan): 8.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Saint-Bonnet-le-Courreau): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.8

Days at or below 0 °C 131.9▸

Muggy days a summer 2.3

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 132 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the CHALMAZEL weather station, 8.7 km away at 855 m; the village itself is at 1,020 m. ^[12]

The village sits 165 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. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at CHALMAZEL, 8.7 km away at 855 m, over 10 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 165 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[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, 4.8 km away at 496 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

The market day comes from the commune's own website and has not been confirmed by a second source. ^[5]

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42205/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
Commune website 2026-10— http://www.saint-bonnet-le-courreau.fr/vie-locale/infos-pratiques.html— “Tous les dimanches de 8h00 à 12h00”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42205/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42205/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42205/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42089
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42205
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42195
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
Saint-Priest-des-Champs	63	99 km W	736	38.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 12 % · humidity 86 %
Miradoux	32	312 km SW	530	39.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Rimont	09	364 km SW	542	44	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 39 % · humidity 93 %
La Ferté-Loupière	89	255 km N	559	42.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 15 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Ciers-du-Taillon	17	358 km W	581	51.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
Frangy-en-Bresse	71	160 km NE	678	33.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 56 % · winter 12 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Priest-des-Champs	63	99 km W	736	38.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 12 % · humidity 86 %
Frangy-en-Bresse	71	160 km NE	678	33.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 56 % · winter 12 %
La Ferté-Loupière	89	255 km N	559	42.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 15 % · humidity 100 %
Miradoux	32	312 km SW	530	39.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Ciers-du-Taillon	17	358 km W	581	51.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
Rimont	09	364 km SW	542	44	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 39 % · 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 Saint-Bonnet-le-Courreau'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
La Chaux-du-Dombief	39	184 km NE	574	47.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Rimeize	48	111 km SW	623	29.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Grandrieu	48	100 km S	736	57.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Viverols	63	26 km S	442	51.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Bellevue-la-Montagne	43	50 km S	461	25.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Châteauneuf-de-Randon	48	115 km S	516	49.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %

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