Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille

Haute-Loire · CC Mézenc-Loire-Meygal · INSEE 43135

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

Partly served 59.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 92 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille (INSEE 43135) is in Haute-Loire (43), part of CC Mézenc-Loire-Meygal. Population 1,784 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-25 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 59.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 92 % of the 10,369 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	0.47	25	11.83
Social	0.82	20	16.42
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.63	10	6.29
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.48	10	4.76
Housing mix	0.58	5	2.89

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 3 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 of 3

Lodging 1 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE ALEXANDRE LAC). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (SALAISON DES MONTS BREYSSE). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (INTERMARCHE). ^[3,4]

4 × Restaurant (LE REBEMOL · LE CLOS FLEURI · CHEVRE ET CHOU · LA MODESTINE). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar (L'OASIS · L'AQUARIUM). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE LAURENT EYNAC · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PRIVEE SAINT DOMINIQUE). ^[3]

2 × Collège (COLLEGE LAURENT EYNAC · COLLEGE PRIVE SAINT DOMINIQUE). ^[3]

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (KAREN BERTRAND VARINARD, MÉDECIN · NOEMIE MARTIN, MÉDECIN · ALEXANDRA CHAPUIS-RIVET, MÉDECIN · JEAN BUGE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE LES PORTES DES CEVENNES). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF). ^[3]

1 × Bank (CAISSE D'EPARGNE ET DE PREVOYANCE D'AUVERGNE ET DU LIMOUSIN). ^[3]

4 × Hairdresser (ROCHE ELIANE · SANDRINE TENDANCE COIFFURE · OSMOSE). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

2 × Campsite (CAMPING MUNICIPAL LA GAZEILLE · CAMPING L'ESTELA). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Campsite.

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	BOULANGERIE ALEXANDRE LAC	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	SALAISON DES MONTS BREYSSE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Supermarket	1	INTERMARCHE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	4	LE REBEMOL · LE CLOS FLEURI · CHEVRE ET CHOU · LA MODESTINE	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Café / bar	3	L'OASIS · L'AQUARIUM	INSEE SIRENE 3 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE LAURENT EYNAC · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PRIVEE SAINT DOMINIQUE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	2	COLLEGE LAURENT EYNAC · COLLEGE PRIVE SAINT DOMINIQUE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	4	KAREN BERTRAND VARINARD, MÉDECIN · NOEMIE MARTIN, MÉDECIN · ALEXANDRA CHAPUIS-RIVET, MÉDECIN · JEAN BUGE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE LES PORTES DES CEVENNES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	1	CAISSE D'EPARGNE ET DE PREVOYANCE D'AUVERGNE ET DU LIMOUSIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Hairdresser	4	ROCHE ELIANE · SANDRINE TENDANCE COIFFURE · OSMOSE	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	2	CAMPING MUNICIPAL LA GAZEILLE · CAMPING L'ESTELA	INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

Weekly market (reported, unverified): Tuesday matin Place Margerit Brémond. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 2,085 2023: 1,784 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,777 (2012) → 1,784 (2023): 0.4 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,828 (1990) → 1,784 (2023): -2.4 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,187, of which 21.1 % second homes and 12.3 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille): 0.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 10.7

Days at or below 0 °C 100.7▸

Muggy days a summer 0

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

Measured at the SOLIGNAC-SUR-LO weather station, 9.7 km away at 832 m; the village itself is at 917 m. ^[10]

The village sits 85 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. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at ESTABLES.SA, 12.9 km away at 1,486 m, over 15 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 569 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 879 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 7.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at MONASTIER(LE), 1.4 km away at 940 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

The market day comes from the commune's own website and has not been confirmed by a second source. ^[5]

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43135/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
Commune website 2026-10— https://lemonastiersurgazeille.fr/a-voir-a-faire/village-monastier-richesses/— “Toute l'année, les marchés hebdomadaires ont lieu le mardi matin, Place Margerit Brémond.”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43135/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43135/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43135/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 43135
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
Vic-sur-Cère	15	108 km W	1,905	56.2	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Buis-les-Baronnies	26	125 km SE	2,218	66.9	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 36 % · humidity 100 %
Chalais	16	313 km W	1,812	58.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 16 % · humidity 71 %
Richelieu	37	366 km NW	1,598	59.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 8 % · humidity 79 %
Espéraza	11	264 km SW	1,774	58.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Badonviller	54	453 km NE	1,497	50.9	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Vic-sur-Cère	15	108 km W	1,905	56.2	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Buis-les-Baronnies	26	125 km SE	2,218	66.9	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 36 % · humidity 100 %
Espéraza	11	264 km SW	1,774	58.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Chalais	16	313 km W	1,812	58.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 16 % · humidity 71 %
Richelieu	37	366 km NW	1,598	59.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 8 % · humidity 79 %
Badonviller	54	453 km NE	1,497	50.9	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 77 % · 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 Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille'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
Évaux-les-Bains	23	181 km NW	1,277	54	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Langogne	48	26 km SW	2,836	75.4	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Anould	88	426 km NE	3,234	45.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Morbier	39	237 km NE	2,456	53.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Fraize	88	428 km NE	2,843	59.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Vercel-Villedieu-le-Camp	25	311 km NE	1,762	63.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

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