Vivans

Loire · CA Roannais Agglomération · INSEE 42337

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

Few services 23.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 67 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Vivans (INSEE 42337) is in Loire (42), part of CA Roannais Agglomération. Population 242 (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 23.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 67 % of the 17,081 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	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.42	10	4.24
Housing mix	0.64	5	3.2

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant. ^[4,3]

1 × Café / bar. ^[3]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Café / bar	1	INSEE SIRENE 1 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Collège	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Fuel station	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 365 2023: 242 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 240 (2012) → 242 (2023): 0.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 262 (1990) → 242 (2023): -7.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 150, of which 18 % second homes and 10.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 2.8 km NWPrimary school — 4.2 km NFood shop — 5.7 km WPharmacy — 6.1 km WGP — 6.2 km W 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 (Chenay-le-Châtel): 2.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Pacaudière): 5.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (La Pacaudière): 6.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (La Pacaudière): 6.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Chenay-le-Châtel): 4.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 20.6

Days at or below 0 °C 56.4

Muggy days a summer 15.3▸

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 56 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LA PACAUDIERE weather station, 6.2 km away at 351 m; the village itself is at 334 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 15 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ST-MARTIN-D'EST, 10 km away at 470 m, over 10 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 136 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 823 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LA PACAUDIERE, 6.2 km away at 351 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42337/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42337/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42337/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 42337/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71123
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42163
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
Livers-Cazelles	81	282 km SW	239	29.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 97 % · humidity 7 %
Montjoie-Saint-Martin	50	472 km NW	250	23.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 84 % · humidity 0 %
Juif	71	108 km NE	248	27	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 84 % · humidity 21 %
Cléré-du-Bois	36	232 km W	239	22.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 77 % · humidity 14 %
Sainte-Eulalie	15	170 km SW	230	24.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 77 % · humidity 0 %
Liesville-sur-Douve	50	528 km NW	218	30	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 76 % · humidity 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Juif	71	108 km NE	248	27	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 84 % · humidity 21 %
Sainte-Eulalie	15	170 km SW	230	24.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 77 % · humidity 0 %
Cléré-du-Bois	36	232 km W	239	22.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 77 % · humidity 14 %
Livers-Cazelles	81	282 km SW	239	29.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 97 % · humidity 7 %
Montjoie-Saint-Martin	50	472 km NW	250	23.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 84 % · humidity 0 %
Liesville-sur-Douve	50	528 km NW	218	30	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 76 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Vivans'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
Saint-Priest-la-Roche	42	33 km S	341	33.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Le Crozet	42	7.1 km W	252	32.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Pinay	42	38 km SE	286	18	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Neaux	42	31 km SE	485	22.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jodard	42	37 km SE	393	29.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Georges-de-Baroille	42	41 km S	460	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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