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Goudet

Haute-Loire · CC Mézenc-Loire-Meygal · INSEE 43101

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 9.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 25 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Goudet (INSEE 43101) is in Haute-Loire (43), part of CC Mézenc-Loire-Meygal. Population 85 (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/43101-goudet

Vitality score

Vitality score 9.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 25 % of the 9,031 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
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.81108.08
Housing mix050

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 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 2 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

2 × Hotel. [3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING AU BORD DE L'EAU). [3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hotel.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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
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 SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [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]
Hotel2INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Campsite1CAMPING AU BORD DE L'EAUINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 92 2023: 85 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 56 (2012) → 85 (2023): 51.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 65 (1990) → 85 (2023): 30.8 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 121, of which 60.3 % second homes and 4.1 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 2.0 km NE (Saint-Martin-de-Fugères)Primary school — 2.0 km NE (Saint-Martin-de-Fugères)Food shop — 2.8 km E (Saint-Martin-de-Fugères)GP — 5.9 km W (Costaros)Pharmacy — 5.9 km W (Costaros)
Bakery — 2.0 km NEPrimary school — 2.0 km NEFood shop — 2.8 km EGP — 5.9 km WPharmacy — 5.9 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 (Saint-Martin-de-Fugères): 2 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Saint-Martin-de-Fugères): 2.8 km to the east (straight line). [8]

GP (Costaros): 5.9 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Costaros): 5.9 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Saint-Martin-de-Fugères): 2 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

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 76 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the LANDOS-CHARBON weather station, 7.3 km away at 1,148 m; the village itself is at 767 m. [10]

The village sits 381 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. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at LANDOS-CHARBON, 7.3 km away at 1,148 m, over 30 summers. [10]

That station sits 381 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 930 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 8.3 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at ALLEYRAC, 5.1 km away at 1,050 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43101/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43101/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43101/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43101/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 43210
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 43077
  10. 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
Belfahy70387 km NE838.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Grézian65364 km SW8710.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Vier-Bordes65382 km SW9611.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 61 %
Nocario2B518 km SE7411.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 38 % · humidity 100 %
Arguenos31333 km SW9011.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 73 % · humidity 79 %
San-Gavino-d'Ampugnani2B521 km SE10311.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 41 % · humidity 50 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Arguenos31333 km SW9011.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 73 % · humidity 79 %
Grézian65364 km SW8710.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Vier-Bordes65382 km SW9611.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 61 %
Belfahy70387 km NE838.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Nocario2B518 km SE7411.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 38 % · humidity 100 %
San-Gavino-d'Ampugnani2B521 km SE10311.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 41 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Goudet'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
Belfahy70387 km NE838.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Viala-du-Pas-de-Jaux12125 km SW845.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Innimond01163 km NE958No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Rabouillet66270 km SW855.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Escaro66292 km SW1288.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Aunat11275 km SW617.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %