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Ouides

Haute-Loire · CC des Pays de Cayres et de Pradelles · INSEE 43145

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

No daily shops 2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 1 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ouides (INSEE 43145) is in Haute-Loire (43), part of CC des Pays de Cayres et de Pradelles. Population 51 (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/43145-ouides

Vitality score

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

Confidence: high.

Better served than 1 % of the 4,938 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 trend0.17101.71
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 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”.

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

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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 136 2023: 51 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 55 (2012) → 51 (2023): -7.3 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 76 (1990) → 51 (2023): -32.9 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 72, of which 62.5 % second homes and 2.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 4.6 km E (Le Bouchet-Saint-Nicolas)Food shop — 4.7 km E (Le Bouchet-Saint-Nicolas)GP — 6.2 km NE (Cayres)Pharmacy — 8.2 km SW (Bel-Air-Val-d'Ance)Bakery — 8.3 km SW (Bel-Air-Val-d'Ance)
Primary school — 4.6 km EFood shop — 4.7 km EGP — 6.2 km NEPharmacy — 8.2 km SWBakery — 8.3 km SW 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 (Bel-Air-Val-d'Ance): 8.3 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Le Bouchet-Saint-Nicolas): 4.7 km to the east (straight line). [9]

GP (Cayres): 6.2 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Bel-Air-Val-d'Ance): 8.2 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Le Bouchet-Saint-Nicolas): 4.6 km to the east (straight line). [9]

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

Measured at the LANDOS-CHARBON weather station, 10 km away at 1,148 m; the village itself is at 1,075 m. [11]

The village sits 73 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]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at LANDOS-CHARBON, 10 km away at 1,148 m, over 30 summers. [11]

That station sits 73 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [11]

An average of 803 mm of rain a year, spread over 109 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at LE BOUCHET-ST-NICOLAS, 4.9 km away at 1,218 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43145/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43145/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43145/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43145/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 48038
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 43037
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 43042
  11. 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
Saint-Juéry4852 km W513.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 62 %
Coudons11261 km SW542.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 41 % · humidity 100 %
Péreyres0743 km E493.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 32 % · humidity 100 %
La Trinitat1565 km W523.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Camparan65355 km SW516.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Balacet09315 km SW5111.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 24 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Péreyres0743 km E493.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 32 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Juéry4852 km W513.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 62 %
La Trinitat1565 km W523.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Coudons11261 km SW542.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 41 % · humidity 100 %
Balacet09315 km SW5111.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 24 %
Camparan65355 km SW516.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Ouides'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
Planès66297 km SW5711.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Cheylard-l'Évêque4829 km S656.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Éloy-la-Glacière6374 km N637.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
La Montagne70401 km NE378.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Cazaux-Debat65350 km SW3411.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Loubaresse0742 km SE4319.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %