Saint-Romain-le-Puy

Loire · CA Loire Forez Agglomération (LFA) · INSEE 42285

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

Partly served 54.6/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 64 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Romain-le-Puy (INSEE 42285) is in Loire (42), part of CA Loire Forez Agglomération (LFA). Population 4,142 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/42285-saint-romain-le-puy

Vitality score

Vitality score 54.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 64 % of the 5,471 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	0.34	25	8.4
Social	0.78	20	15.54
Education	0.22	10	2.21
Health	0.43	10	4.27
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.98	5	4.88

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 3 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 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE DU PIC). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Supermarket (CHAROM). ^[3,4]

6 × Restaurant (CUP MANDINE · PLANET PIZZA · L INSOLITE). ^[3,4]

6 × Café / bar (SIXTIES CLUB · SIXTIES · SIXIES CLUB · LE NEO). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE JEAN MONNET). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE JEAN MONNET). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE LEONARD DE VINCI). ^[3]

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JUSTINE DE LUCA, MÉDECIN · CAROLE LUQUET, MÉDECIN · FLORENCE LUTZ-PAGES, MÉDECIN · AMÉLIE BERGER-PEROL, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DU PIC). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LPR ST ROMAIN LE PUY RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE- SAINT-ROMAIN-LE-PUY). ^[3]

2 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE DE SPORTS COMMUNALE · STADE EMILE PIROLLO). ^[3]

4 × Hairdresser (SARL ESPACE COIFFURE SANDRINE · MISS T'HAIR COIFFURE · SEV COIFFURE · LA CLEANIQUE BARBER). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 3 × Restaurant, 1 × Bank, 2 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	BOULANGERIE DU PIC	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	2	BOUCHERIE GASTEL	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	CHAROM	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	6	CUP MANDINE · PLANET PIZZA · L INSOLITE	INSEE SIRENE 6 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	6	SIXTIES CLUB · SIXTIES · SIXIES CLUB · LE NEO	INSEE SIRENE 6 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE JEAN MONNET	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE JEAN MONNET	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE LEONARD DE VINCI	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	4	JUSTINE DE LUCA, MÉDECIN · CAROLE LUQUET, MÉDECIN · FLORENCE LUTZ-PAGES, MÉDECIN · AMÉLIE BERGER-PEROL, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DU PIC	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LPR ST ROMAIN LE PUY RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE- SAINT-ROMAIN-LE-PUY	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	2	SALLE DE SPORTS COMMUNALE · STADE EMILE PIROLLO	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	4	SARL ESPACE COIFFURE SANDRINE · MISS T'HAIR COIFFURE · SEV COIFFURE · LA CLEANIQUE BARBER	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 2,459 2023: 4,142 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 3,746 (2012) → 4,142 (2023): 10.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 2,616 (1990) → 4,142 (2023): 58.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,932, of which 1.2 % second homes and 6.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Saint-Romain-le-Puy): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Romain-le-Puy): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Romain-le-Puy): 0 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Romain-le-Puy): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Romain-le-Puy): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 24

Days at or below 0 °C 82.1

Muggy days a summer 0.5

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 24 days a year at or above 30 °C and 82 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the SAVIGNEUX weather station, 8.4 km away at 370 m; the village itself is at 399 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at ST ETIENNE-BOUTHEON, 13.5 km away at 395 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

An average of 653 mm of rain a year, spread over 95 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at SAVIGNEUX, 8.4 km away at 370 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42285/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42285/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42285/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42285/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42285
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
Bollwiller	68	351 km NE	4,184	48.4	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Betschdorf	67	469 km NE	4,231	45.4	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Savigné-l'Évêque	72	404 km NW	4,031	46.2	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Le Châtelet-en-Brie	77	343 km N	4,207	45.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Aubin-d'Aubigné	35	529 km NW	4,304	52.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %
Sées	61	452 km NW	4,168	56.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 57 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Le Châtelet-en-Brie	77	343 km N	4,207	45.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Bollwiller	68	351 km NE	4,184	48.4	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Savigné-l'Évêque	72	404 km NW	4,031	46.2	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Sées	61	452 km NW	4,168	56.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 57 % · humidity 93 %
Betschdorf	67	469 km NE	4,231	45.4	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Aubin-d'Aubigné	35	529 km NW	4,304	52.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %

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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-Romain-le-Puy'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
Valgelon-La Rochette	73	156 km E	4,207	55	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Val d'Oingt	69	54 km NE	4,117	69.8	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Vagney	88	337 km NE	3,843	50.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Châtillon-sur-Seine	21	259 km N	5,443	62.4	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Sanvignes-les-Mines	71	124 km N	4,235	31.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Nuits-Saint-Georges	21	187 km N	5,235	64.1	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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