Champclause

Identity

Champclause (INSEE 43053) is in Haute-Loire (43), part of CC Mézenc-Loire-Meygal. Population 201 (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/43053-champclause

Vitality score

Vitality score 25.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 80 % of the 15,929 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.

Services

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

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

1 × Restaurant (AUBERGE DU MONT TORTUE). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Hotel (HOTEL AUBERGE DU MEYGAL). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING DU MEYGAL). ^[3]

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

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 203 (2012) → 201 (2023): -1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 243 (1990) → 201 (2023): -17.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 240, of which 44.6 % second homes and 14.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Champclause): 0.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Araules): 4.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Julien-Chapteuil): 5 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Lantriac): 9.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Araules): 4.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

An average of 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 134 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ST-JULIEN-CHAP weather station, 5.2 km away at 810 m; the village itself is at 1,202 m. ^[12]

The village sits 392 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 0 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at LE PERTUIS_SAPC, 9 km away at 1,020 m, over 21 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 182 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 925 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 7.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ST-JULIEN-CHAP, 5.2 km away at 810 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43053/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43053/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43053/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43053/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 43053
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 43007
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 43200
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 43113
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024