Villers

Loire · CC Charlieu-Belmont · INSEE 42333

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

Few services 38.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 75 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Villers (INSEE 42333) is in Loire (42), part of CC Charlieu-Belmont. Population 602 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/42333-villers

Vitality score

Vitality score 38.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 75 % of the 17,066 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.69	10	6.9
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.51

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE FOURNIL VILLERSOIS). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (VIE L'AIR SOIF). ^[4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (VILLERS AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE - VILLERS). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (L'ATELIER EST DE MECHE AVEC VOUS! · M'ACTIFF COIFFURE A DOMICILE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LE FOURNIL VILLERSOIS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	VIE L'AIR SOIF	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LE BOURG	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	VILLERS AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE - VILLERS	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	3	L'ATELIER EST DE MECHE AVEC VOUS! · M'ACTIFF COIFFURE A DOMICILE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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

Weekly market (reported, unverified): Wednesday, Saturday. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 382 2023: 602 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 581 (2012) → 602 (2023): 3.6 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 506 (1990) → 602 (2023): 19 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 285, of which 4.9 % second homes and 10.5 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 5.1 km NWGP — 5.4 km SPharmacy — 5.4 km NW 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 (Villers): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Charlieu): 5.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Coutouvre): 5.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Pharmacy (Charlieu): 5.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Villers): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.8

Days at or below 0 °C 59.1

Muggy days a summer 1

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 17 days a year at or above 30 °C and 59 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the NANDAX weather station, 3.7 km away at 374 m; the village itself is at 477 m. ^[12]

The village sits 103 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 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at CHARLIEU, 5.9 km away at 278 m, over 10 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 199 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 909 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at NANDAX, 3.7 km away at 374 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

The market day comes from DATAtourisme and has not been confirmed by a second source. ^[5]

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42333/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2023-07— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/27c45a5c-d104-3ae3-94b3-d32e1047f10a— “Tous les mercredis et samedis matins, devant la mairie.”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42333/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42333/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42333/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42333
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42052
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42074
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
Caussens	32	384 km SW	598	37	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 59 % · humidity 29 %
Monchy-Lagache	80	424 km N	593	32.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Vieux-Rouen-sur-Bresle	76	453 km NW	583	36.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 50 % · humidity 100 %
Abancourt	60	438 km NW	569	35.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Bellencombre	76	457 km NW	564	38.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 70 %
Challonges	74	125 km E	610	41.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Challonges	74	125 km E	610	41.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Caussens	32	384 km SW	598	37	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 59 % · humidity 29 %
Monchy-Lagache	80	424 km N	593	32.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Abancourt	60	438 km NW	569	35.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Vieux-Rouen-sur-Bresle	76	453 km NW	583	36.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 50 % · humidity 100 %
Bellencombre	76	457 km NW	564	38.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 70 %

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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 Villers'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
Challonges	74	125 km E	610	41.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Mailley-et-Chazelot	70	210 km NE	610	36.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Polaincourt-et-Clairefontaine	70	241 km NE	592	28.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Yermenonville	28	334 km NW	621	32.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Pouilly-sur-Saône	21	121 km NE	619	35.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Coucy-lès-Eppes	02	383 km N	649	31.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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