Beaux

Haute-Loire · CC des Sucs · INSEE 43024

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

Few services 39/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 65 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Beaux (INSEE 43024) is in Haute-Loire (43), part of CC des Sucs. Population 886 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/43024-beaux

Vitality score

Vitality score 39/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 65 % of the 15,047 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	0.88	10	8.84
Housing mix	0.64	5	3.2

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE SUC HULANT). ^[3,4]

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (HAIR STYLE BY ALEX). ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	LE SUC HULANT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	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	BEAUX AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	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	1	HAIR STYLE BY ALEX	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 659 2023: 886 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 809 (2012) → 886 (2023): 9.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 640 (1990) → 886 (2023): 38.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 540, of which 18 % second homes and 12.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 4.6 km SEGP — 4.8 km NWPharmacy — 5.0 km S 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 (Beaux): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Yssingeaux): 4.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Retournac): 4.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Yssingeaux): 5 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Beaux): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 10.8

Days at or below 0 °C 76.9

Muggy days a summer 0.1

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 11 days a year at or above 30 °C and 77 days at or below 0 °C, over 14 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the YSSINGEAUX LEP weather station, 6.4 km away at 898 m; the village itself is at 750 m. ^[11]

The village sits 148 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 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at LE PERTUIS_SAPC, 10 km away at 1,020 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 270 m above 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 813 mm of rain a year, spread over 103 days — about 7.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at RETOURNAC, 5.2 km away at 535 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 — 43024/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43024/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43024/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43024/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 43024
INSEE BPE 2025 — 43268
INSEE BPE 2025 — 43162
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
Vanosc	07	36 km E	907	42.9	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Lhommaizé	86	304 km NW	898	41.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 65 % · humidity 79 %
Champlost	89	317 km N	767	35.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 70 % · humidity 79 %
Ivoy-le-Pré	18	270 km NW	771	34.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Coussay-les-Bois	86	315 km NW	919	41	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 64 % · humidity 71 %
Sargé-sur-Braye	41	392 km NW	945	38.7	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 35 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Vanosc	07	36 km E	907	42.9	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Ivoy-le-Pré	18	270 km NW	771	34.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Lhommaizé	86	304 km NW	898	41.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 65 % · humidity 79 %
Coussay-les-Bois	86	315 km NW	919	41	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 64 % · humidity 71 %
Champlost	89	317 km N	767	35.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 70 % · humidity 79 %
Sargé-sur-Braye	41	392 km NW	945	38.7	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 35 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Beaux'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
Dounoux	88	371 km NE	880	40	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
La Valla-en-Gier	42	42 km NE	1,140	31.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Rémering-lès-Puttelange	57	479 km NE	1,050	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Trévignin	73	157 km E	870	40	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Loubeyrat	63	118 km NW	1,437	32.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Gironcourt-sur-Vraine	88	375 km N	849	41.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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