Saint-Arcons-de-Barges

Haute-Loire · CC des Pays de Cayres et de Pradelles · INSEE 43168

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

Few services 20.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 78 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Arcons-de-Barges (INSEE 43168) is in Haute-Loire (43), part of CC des Pays de Cayres et de Pradelles. Population 119 (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/43168-saint-arcons-de-barges

Vitality score

Vitality score 20.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 78 % of the 12,100 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	0.75	20	14.97
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.21	10	2.13
Housing mix	0	5	0

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 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”.

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

2 × Restaurant (CHEZ OLIVE). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Campsite (LE MARCONNES). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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

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	2	CHEZ OLIVE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	1	LE MARCONNES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 328 2023: 119 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 119 (2012) → 119 (2023): 0 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 167 (1990) → 119 (2023): -28.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 167, of which 62.9 % second homes and 2.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 5.3 km SEBakery — 5.4 km SEFood shop — 5.4 km SEPharmacy — 5.8 km SEGP — 6.0 km SE 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 (Coucouron): 5.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Coucouron): 5.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Coucouron): 6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Coucouron): 5.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Coucouron): 5.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.2

Days at or below 0 °C 100.9▸

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 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 101 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the ST-PAUL-DE-TART weather station, 5.8 km away at 1,146 m; the village itself is at 954 m. ^[9]

The village sits 192 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. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at LANDOS-CHARBON, 6.6 km away at 1,148 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 194 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 786 mm of rain a year, spread over 98 days — about 8 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at ST-PAUL-DE-TART, 5.8 km away at 1,146 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43168/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43168/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43168/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43168/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07071
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
Manso	2B	479 km SE	116	19.5	No daily shops	no figures
Larnagol	46	175 km W	135	19	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 0 % · winter 20 %
Saint-Paul-de-Salers	15	116 km W	105	16.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 43 % · humidity 100 %
La Chaulme	63	70 km N	118	13	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Glandage	26	133 km E	114	27.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Malons-et-Elze	30	48 km S	111	16.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 31 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Malons-et-Elze	30	48 km S	111	16.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 31 % · humidity 100 %
La Chaulme	63	70 km N	118	13	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Paul-de-Salers	15	116 km W	105	16.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 43 % · humidity 100 %
Glandage	26	133 km E	114	27.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Larnagol	46	175 km W	135	19	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 0 % · winter 20 %
Manso	2B	479 km SE	116	19.5	No daily shops	no figures

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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 Saint-Arcons-de-Barges'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
La Chaulme	63	70 km N	118	13	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Alban-des-Villards	73	190 km E	92	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Mazan-l'Abbaye	07	18 km SE	120	0.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Alleyrac	43	7.5 km NE	117	21.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Fayet-Ronaye	63	72 km NW	116	2.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Sagnes-et-Goudoulet	07	25 km E	121	13.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

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