Sainte-Foy-Saint-Sulpice

Loire · CA Loire Forez Agglomération (LFA) · INSEE 42221

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

Few services 33.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 66 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sainte-Foy-Saint-Sulpice (INSEE 42221) is in Loire (42), part of CA Loire Forez Agglomération (LFA). Population 568 (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/42221-sainte-foy-saint-sulpice

Vitality score

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

Confidence: high.

Better served than 66 % of the 17,343 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.64

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AUX PAINS D'AUTREFOIS). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (NAOS HOTEL PARIS 14). ^[3,4]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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)	1	AUX PAINS D'AUTREFOIS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	2	NAOS HOTEL PARIS 14	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 363 2023: 568 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 524 (2012) → 568 (2023): 8.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 343 (1990) → 568 (2023): 65.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 247, of which 3.6 % second homes and 6.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery Primary school — 3.8 km EFood shop — 5.3 km SWGP — 7.0 km NEPharmacy — 7.0 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 (Sainte-Foy-Saint-Sulpice): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Étienne-le-Molard): 5.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Balbigny): 7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Balbigny): 7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Cleppé): 3.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 32.5

Days at or below 0 °C 73.5

Muggy days a summer 18.6▸

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 33 days a year at or above 30 °C and 74 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the FEURS - MAN weather station, 8 km away at 332 m; the village itself is at 394 m. ^[12]

The village sits 62 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 19 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at FEURS, 8.8 km away at 347 m, over 10 summers. ^[12]

An average of 742 mm of rain a year, spread over 107 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at BALBIGNY, 7.5 km away at 336 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 — 42221/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42221/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42221/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42221/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42221
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42219
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42011
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42066
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
La Vacherie	27	435 km NW	557	28.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 77 % · humidity 0 %
Mittelschaeffolsheim	67	421 km NE	560	31.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 59 % · humidity 0 %
Kerling-lès-Sierck	57	436 km N	599	31	Few services	no figures
Montaut	31	350 km SW	578	30.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 58 % · humidity 14 %
Crespian	30	210 km S	522	33.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 81 % · humidity 14 %
Blacy	51	331 km N	614	27.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 69 % · humidity 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Crespian	30	210 km S	522	33.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 81 % · humidity 14 %
Blacy	51	331 km N	614	27.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 69 % · humidity 0 %
Montaut	31	350 km SW	578	30.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 58 % · humidity 14 %
Mittelschaeffolsheim	67	421 km NE	560	31.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 59 % · humidity 0 %
La Vacherie	27	435 km NW	557	28.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 77 % · humidity 0 %
Kerling-lès-Sierck	57	436 km N	599	31	Few services	no figures

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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 Sainte-Foy-Saint-Sulpice'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-Laurent-la-Conche	42	11 km SE	573	33.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Marclopt	42	13 km SE	552	35.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Mizérieux	42	3.8 km NE	538	16.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Chambéon	42	8.8 km SE	665	45	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Magneux-Haute-Rive	42	12 km S	555	45.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Cleppé	42	4.1 km E	572	45.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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