Chastel

Haute-Loire · CC des Rives du Haut Allier · INSEE 43065

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

No daily shops 10.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 24 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chastel (INSEE 43065) is in Haute-Loire (43), part of CC des Rives du Haut Allier. Population 122 (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 10.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 24 % of the 12,371 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.06	10	0.65
Housing mix	0.39	5	1.93

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 (BAR DES COPAINS). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, 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	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	BAR DES COPAINS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 347 2023: 122 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 139 (2012) → 122 (2023): -12.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 216 (1990) → 122 (2023): -43.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 114, of which 30.7 % second homes and 13.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 3.5 km SWPrimary school — 4.1 km NWBakery — 9.5 km NEGP — 9.7 km NEPharmacy — 9.9 km NE 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 (Lavoûte-Chilhac): 9.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Védrines-Saint-Loup): 3.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Lavoûte-Chilhac): 9.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Lavoûte-Chilhac): 9.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Rageade): 4.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.1

Days at or below 0 °C 104.7▸

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 105 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the AUVERS weather station, 10.2 km away at 1,134 m; the village itself is at 855 m. ^[11]

The village sits 279 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]

An average of 713 mm of rain a year, spread over 102 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at PINOLS, 7.9 km away at 1,015 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 — 43065/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43065/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43065/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43065/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 43118
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15251
INSEE BPE 2025 — 15158
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
Guerquesalles	61	486 km NW	122	17.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 100 % · winter 1 %
Germenay	58	246 km N	118	13	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 43 %
Saint-Trinit	84	202 km SE	118	20	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 62 % · winter 64 %
Saint-Julien-le-Roux	07	109 km E	127	17.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 38 %
Virargues	15	33 km W	116	12.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 93 %
Maillas	40	293 km W	125	18.3	No daily shops	no figures

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Virargues	15	33 km W	116	12.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 93 %
Saint-Julien-le-Roux	07	109 km E	127	17.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 38 %
Saint-Trinit	84	202 km SE	118	20	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 62 % · winter 64 %
Germenay	58	246 km N	118	13	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 43 %
Maillas	40	293 km W	125	18.3	No daily shops	no figures
Guerquesalles	61	486 km NW	122	17.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 100 % · winter 1 %

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