Saint-Marcel-d'Urfé

Loire · CC du Pays d'Urfé · INSEE 42255

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

No daily shops 17.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 41 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Marcel-d'Urfé (INSEE 42255) is in Loire (42), part of CC du Pays d'Urfé. Population 268 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 17.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 41 % of the 17,504 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	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.5	10	5
Housing mix	0.68	5	3.4

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE - SAINT-MARCEL-D'URFÉ). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE - SAINT-MARCEL-D'URFÉ	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: 336 2023: 268 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 289 (2012) → 268 (2023): -7.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 268 (1990) → 268 (2023): 0 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 194, of which 16 % second homes and 16 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 1.4 km NEFood shop — 2.1 km SWPrimary school — 4.3 km WGP — 5.0 km SEPharmacy — 10.9 km SE 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 (Juré): 1.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Martin-la-Sauveté): 2.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Martin-la-Sauveté): 5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Germain-Laval): 10.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Champoly): 4.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.2

Days at or below 0 °C 101▸

Muggy days a summer 1.3

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 101 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ST-JUST-EN-CHEV weather station, 5.2 km away at 612 m; the village itself is at 640 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ST-JUST-EN-CHEV, 5.2 km away at 612 m, over 10 summers. ^[12]

An average of 890 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ST-JUST-EN-CHEV, 5.2 km away at 612 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 — 42255/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42255/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42255/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42255/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42116
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42260
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42230
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42047
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
Nizerolles	03	32 km NW	282	17.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 41 % · humidity 93 %
Briffons	63	97 km W	267	13.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Crépin-d'Auberoche	24	248 km W	335	23.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 45 % · humidity 57 %
Teyjat	24	259 km W	271	10	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 69 % · winter 24 %
Céron	71	46 km N	263	10.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Mayme-de-Péreyrol	24	270 km W	286	17.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 5 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Nizerolles	03	32 km NW	282	17.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 41 % · humidity 93 %
Céron	71	46 km N	263	10.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Briffons	63	97 km W	267	13.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Crépin-d'Auberoche	24	248 km W	335	23.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 45 % · humidity 57 %
Teyjat	24	259 km W	271	10	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 69 % · winter 24 %
Saint-Mayme-de-Péreyrol	24	270 km W	286	17.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 5 % · humidity 86 %

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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-Marcel-d'Urfé'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
Chaveroche	19	131 km W	268	15.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Rémy-de-Blot	63	77 km W	251	29.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Juré	42	1.4 km N	242	32.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
La Tuilière	42	11 km NW	273	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Vabres	15	107 km SW	244	18.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Julien-la-Genête	23	113 km W	215	10.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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