Monlet

Haute-Loire · CA du Puy-en-Velay · INSEE 43138

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

No daily shops 16.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 22 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Monlet (INSEE 43138) is in Haute-Loire (43), part of CA du Puy-en-Velay. Population 402 (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/43138-monlet

Vitality score

Vitality score 16.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 22 % of the 18,023 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.51	10	5.08
Housing mix	0.23	5	1.14

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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”.

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

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 572 2023: 402 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 405 (2012) → 402 (2023): -0.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 399 (1990) → 402 (2023): 0.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 365, of which 38.6 % second homes and 4.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 1.7 km SFood shop — 2.2 km SGP — 2.6 km SPharmacy — 2.6 km S 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 (Allègre): 1.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Allègre): 2.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Allègre): 2.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Allègre): 2.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Monlet): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 9.1

Days at or below 0 °C 119.5▸

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 120 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ALLEGRE weather station, 1.9 km away at 1,035 m; the village itself is at 1,018 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at FIX-ST-GENEYS, 9.1 km away at 1,102 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 84 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 911 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 7.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ALLEGRE, 1.9 km away at 1,035 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43138/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43138/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43138/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43138/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 43003
INSEE BPE 2025 — 43138
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
Roches	23	178 km NW	371	16.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 20 % · humidity 100 %
Bézancourt	76	495 km N	358	23.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 97 % · winter 12 %
Silhac	07	80 km SE	407	28.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-Agnon	63	46 km N	361	15.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %
Curvalle	81	173 km SW	398	12.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 36 % · winter 0 %
Sarrazac	24	211 km W	363	16	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Chapelle-Agnon	63	46 km N	361	15.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %
Silhac	07	80 km SE	407	28.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Curvalle	81	173 km SW	398	12.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 36 % · winter 0 %
Roches	23	178 km NW	371	16.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 20 % · humidity 100 %
Sarrazac	24	211 km W	363	16	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Bézancourt	76	495 km N	358	23.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 97 % · winter 12 %

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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 Monlet'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
Gentioux-Pigerolles	23	148 km NW	398	30.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jean-Lachalm	43	29 km S	306	22.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Rencurel	38	139 km E	358	32.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Bellevue-la-Montagne	43	8.3 km E	461	25.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Monestier-Merlines	19	107 km NW	302	2.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Félines	43	6.2 km NE	298	27.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

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