La Valla-sur-Rochefort

Loire · CA Loire Forez Agglomération (LFA) · INSEE 42321

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

No daily shops 12/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 39 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Valla-sur-Rochefort (INSEE 42321) is in Loire (42), part of CA Loire Forez Agglomération (LFA). Population 105 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 12/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 39 % of the 11,027 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	25	0
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.2	10	2
Housing mix	0.06	5	0.28

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (AUBERGE DE LA SOURCE). ^[3,4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE - LA VALLA-SUR-ROCHEFORT). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	1	AUBERGE DE LA SOURCE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE - LA VALLA-SUR-ROCHEFORT	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: 191 2023: 105 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 124 (2012) → 105 (2023): -15.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 150 (1990) → 105 (2023): -30 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 89, of which 47.2 % second homes and 2.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.8 km SEFood shop — 5.9 km SGP — 6.2 km SBakery — 6.3 km SPharmacy — 9.5 km E 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 (Chalmazel-Jeansagnière): 6.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Chalmazel-Jeansagnière): 5.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Chalmazel-Jeansagnière): 6.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Sail-sous-Couzan): 9.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Just-en-Bas): 3.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.1

Days at or below 0 °C 70.5

Muggy days a summer 2.8

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 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 71 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the COL DE LA LOGE_SAPC weather station, 5.8 km away at 1,261 m; the village itself is at 842 m. ^[11]

The village sits 419 m below 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 3 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CHALMAZEL, 6.1 km away at 855 m, over 10 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,289 mm of rain a year, spread over 146 days — about 8.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at COL DE LA LOGE_SAPC, 5.8 km away at 1,261 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42321/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42321/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42321/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42321/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42039
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42195
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42247
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-Geniez	04	242 km SE	112	21.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Le Saix	05	211 km SE	126	21.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 18 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Jurs	04	278 km SE	140	17.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 66 % · humidity 79 %
Mayres-Savel	38	176 km SE	94	14.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 70 % · humidity 79 %
Asnières-sous-Bois	89	192 km N	113	18.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Sausses	04	302 km SE	131	22.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 0 % · winter 62 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Mayres-Savel	38	176 km SE	94	14.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 70 % · humidity 79 %
Asnières-sous-Bois	89	192 km N	113	18.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Le Saix	05	211 km SE	126	21.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 18 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Geniez	04	242 km SE	112	21.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Jurs	04	278 km SE	140	17.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 66 % · humidity 79 %
Sausses	04	302 km SE	131	22.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 0 % · winter 62 %

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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 Valla-sur-Rochefort'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
Rabouillet	66	356 km S	85	5.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Burgalays	31	409 km SW	124	7.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Seich	65	405 km SW	89	12	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Solbach	67	390 km NE	111	10.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Fillols	66	374 km S	207	29.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Noyers	52	284 km NE	97	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %

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