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La Tuilière

Loire · CC du Pays d'Urfé · INSEE 42314

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

No daily shops 19.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 47 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Tuilière (INSEE 42314) is in Loire (42), part of CC du Pays d'Urfé. Population 273 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/42314-la-tuiliere

Vitality score

Vitality score 19.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 47 % of the 17,545 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0.21255.27
Social0200
Education0.63106.32
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.25102.54
Housing mix0.552.52

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 1 of 3
Health 0 of 4
Public services 0 of 1
Culture 0 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. [3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (SOCIETE PERONNET). [3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)1SOCIETE PERONNETINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUEINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 485 2023: 273 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 283 (2012) → 273 (2023): -3.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 362 (1990) → 273 (2023): -24.6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 206, of which 24.8 % second homes and 11.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

10 km20 kmFood shop — 3.4 km SE (Saint-Just-en-Chevalet)GP — 5.0 km SE (Saint-Just-en-Chevalet)Pharmacy — 11.0 km SW (Chabreloche)
In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 3.4 km SEGP — 5.0 km SEPharmacy — 11.0 km SW 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 (La Tuilière): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Saint-Just-en-Chevalet): 3.4 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Saint-Just-en-Chevalet): 5 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Chabreloche): 11 km to the south-west (straight line). [10]

Primary school (La Tuilière): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 108 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the ST-JUST-EN-CHEV weather station, 5.3 km away at 612 m; the village itself is at 689 m. [11]

The village sits 77 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. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at ST-JUST-EN-CHEV, 5.3 km away at 612 m, over 10 summers. [11]

That station sits 77 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [11]

An average of 1,393 mm of rain a year, spread over 150 days — about 9.3 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at LA TUILIERE, 0.1 km away at 681 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42314/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42314/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42314/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42314/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 42314
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 42248
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 63072
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Lauresses46185 km SW23917.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 20 %
Le Ségur81246 km SW25923Few servicesWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Marques76455 km N23622.6Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 0 % · humidity 100 %
Langé36215 km NW25320.3Few servicesWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 12 % · humidity 86 %
Margerides19121 km SW27118.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 57 % · humidity 100 %
Mazirat03102 km W27314.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 19 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Mazirat03102 km W27314.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 19 % · humidity 100 %
Margerides19121 km SW27118.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 57 % · humidity 100 %
Lauresses46185 km SW23917.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 20 %
Langé36215 km NW25320.3Few servicesWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 12 % · humidity 86 %
Le Ségur81246 km SW25923Few servicesWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Marques76455 km N23622.6Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 0 % · 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 La Tuilière'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Alpinien23121 km W29014.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Buxières-sous-Montaigut6379 km W24416.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Rémy-de-Blot6369 km W25129.4Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Vabres15111 km SW24418.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Maixant23123 km W22216.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Marcel-d'Urfé4211 km SE26817.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %