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Bonneval

Haute-Loire · CA du Puy-en-Velay · INSEE 43035

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

No daily shops 13.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 53 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bonneval (INSEE 43035) is in Haute-Loire (43), part of CA du Puy-en-Velay. Population 92 (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/43035-bonneval

Vitality score

Vitality score 13.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 53 % of the 9,787 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 food0250
Social0.32206.32
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.34103.44
Housing mix0.3351.63

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 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 × Café / bar (AUBERGE LA DORETTE). [4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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 / bar1AUBERGE LA DORETTEINSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [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: 123 peak 1975: 124 2023: 92 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 80 (2012) → 92 (2023): 15 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 109 (1990) → 92 (2023): -15.6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 104, of which 33.7 % second homes and 17.3 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmBakery — 3.6 km N (Malvières)GP — 3.6 km W (La Chaise-Dieu)Food shop — 3.7 km W (La Chaise-Dieu)Pharmacy — 3.7 km W (La Chaise-Dieu)Primary school — 3.9 km E (Jullianges)
Bakery — 3.6 km NGP — 3.6 km WFood shop — 3.7 km WPharmacy — 3.7 km WPrimary school — 3.9 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 (Malvières): 3.6 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (La Chaise-Dieu): 3.7 km to the west (straight line). [9]

GP (La Chaise-Dieu): 3.6 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (La Chaise-Dieu): 3.7 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Jullianges): 3.9 km to the east (straight line). [10]

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 8 days a year at or above 30 °C and 107 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the FELINES_SAPC weather station, 5.1 km away at 1,014 m; the village itself is at 839 m. [11]

The village sits 175 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 FIX-ST-GENEYS, 19.4 km away at 1,102 m, over 30 summers. [11]

That station sits 263 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 914 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 7.5 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at FELINES_SAPC, 5.1 km away at 1,014 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 — 43035/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43035/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43035/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43035/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 43128
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 43048
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 43108
  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
Gintrac46162 km W9015.3No daily shopsno figures
Dettey71165 km N8812.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Le Riols81194 km SW9813.7No daily shopsno figures
Aubenas-les-Alpes04217 km SE9021.9Few servicesWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Clément0757 km SE9011.3No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Philbert-sur-Orne61501 km NW11113.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 27 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Clément0757 km SE9011.3No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Gintrac46162 km W9015.3No daily shopsno figures
Dettey71165 km N8812.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Le Riols81194 km SW9813.7No daily shopsno figures
Aubenas-les-Alpes04217 km SE9021.9Few servicesWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Philbert-sur-Orne61501 km NW11113.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 27 % · 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 Bonneval'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
Landeyrat1569 km W843.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Chavagnac1570 km W884.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Rézentières1554 km W11414.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Hippolyte1582 km W9910No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Brion4881 km SW8810.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Alleyrat19122 km W987.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %