Polignac

Haute-Loire · CA du Puy-en-Velay · INSEE 43152

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

Partly served 43.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 40 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Polignac (INSEE 43152) is in Haute-Loire (43), part of CA du Puy-en-Velay. Population 2,819 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/43152-polignac

Vitality score

Vitality score 43.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 40 % of the 7,501 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.59	10	5.85
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.68	10	6.82
Housing mix	0.87	5	4.37

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (MEZIA). ^[3,4]

4 × Restaurant (VO43 · AUBERGE DU DONJON · LES TERRASSES DE POLIGNAC). ^[3,4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PRIVEE STE JEANNE D'ARC). ^[3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (SARA REVERDIT, MÉDECIN · NADINE DESSIMOND, MÉDECIN · EMILIE GADAT CHATAING, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE POLIGNAC). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (POLIGNAC AP). ^[3]

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

2 × Hairdresser (IMAGINA'TIF · L'EVASION CAPIL'HAIR). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Butcher (boucherie).

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	MEZIA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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	4	VO43 · AUBERGE DU DONJON · LES TERRASSES DE POLIGNAC	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PRIVEE STE JEANNE D'ARC	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	SARA REVERDIT, MÉDECIN · NADINE DESSIMOND, MÉDECIN · EMILIE GADAT CHATAING, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE POLIGNAC	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	POLIGNAC AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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	2	IMAGINA'TIF · L'EVASION CAPIL'HAIR	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 1,407 2023: 2,819 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,817 (2012) → 2,819 (2023): 0.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 2,384 (1990) → 2,819 (2023): 18.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,450, of which 6.3 % second homes and 9.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 2.8 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 (Polignac): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Espaly-Saint-Marcel): 2.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Polignac): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Polignac): 0.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Polignac): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 20.4

Days at or below 0 °C 82.1

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 20 days a year at or above 30 °C and 82 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LE PUY-CHADRAC weather station, 3.3 km away at 714 m; the village itself is at 753 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at LE PUY-CHADRAC, 3.3 km away at 714 m, over 29 summers. ^[10]

An average of 615 mm of rain a year, spread over 87 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LE PUY-CHADRAC, 3.3 km away at 714 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 — 43152/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43152/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43152/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43152/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 43152
INSEE BPE 2025 — 43089
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
Listrac-Médoc	33	365 km W	2,807	43.4	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 18 % · humidity 29 %
Hadol	88	391 km NE	2,311	38.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Pléchâtel	35	532 km NW	2,833	59.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 24 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Viaud	44	514 km NW	2,929	50.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 24 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Just-le-Martel	87	212 km NW	2,606	44.7	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Camors	56	609 km NW	3,260	42.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 59 % · winter 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Just-le-Martel	87	212 km NW	2,606	44.7	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Listrac-Médoc	33	365 km W	2,807	43.4	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 18 % · humidity 29 %
Hadol	88	391 km NE	2,311	38.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Viaud	44	514 km NW	2,929	50.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 24 % · humidity 86 %
Pléchâtel	35	532 km NW	2,833	59.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 24 % · humidity 86 %
Camors	56	609 km NW	3,260	42.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 59 % · winter 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 Polignac'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
Prémilhat	03	172 km NW	2,540	46.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Romain-de-Popey	69	101 km NE	1,725	45.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Fortunade	19	165 km W	1,798	27.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Monnetier-Mornex	74	221 km NE	2,362	49	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Orléat	63	94 km N	2,242	52	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Celles-sur-Durolle	63	89 km N	1,627	40.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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