Saint-Vidal

Haute-Loire · CA du Puy-en-Velay · INSEE 43229

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

Few services 26.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 40 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Vidal (INSEE 43229) is in Haute-Loire (43), part of CA du Puy-en-Velay. Population 608 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/43229-saint-vidal

Vitality score

Vitality score 26.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 40 % of the 16,983 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.87	5	4.33

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 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]

1 × Café / bar. ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[4]

2 × Hotel (CHATEAU DE SAINT VIDAL · L'ESTAMPILLES). ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	2	CHATEAU DE SAINT VIDAL · L'ESTAMPILLES	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 236 2023: 608 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 541 (2012) → 608 (2023): 12.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 319 (1990) → 608 (2023): 90.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 298, of which 6.7 % second homes and 8.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.6 km SFood shop — 2.9 km WBakery — 3.0 km WGP — 4.0 km WPharmacy — 4.5 km E 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 (Chaspuzac): 3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Chaspuzac): 2.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Loudes): 4 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Polignac): 4.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Sanssac-l'Église): 2.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 11.9

Days at or below 0 °C 94

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 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 94 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the LE PUY-LOUDES weather station, 2.8 km away at 831 m; the village itself is at 757 m. ^[12]

The village sits 74 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at LE PUY-LOUDES, 2.8 km away at 831 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 74 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 682 mm of rain a year, spread over 94 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LE PUY-LOUDES, 2.8 km away at 831 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43229/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43229/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43229/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43229/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 43062
INSEE BPE 2025 — 43124
INSEE BPE 2025 — 43152
INSEE BPE 2025 — 43233
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
Étinehem-Méricourt	80	546 km N	589	25.2	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 23 % · humidity 86 %
Noaillac	33	307 km W	552	26.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 32 % · humidity 43 %
Nielles-lès-Ardres	62	655 km N	577	26.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 31 % · humidity 93 %
Corcelles-les-Monts	21	262 km N	684	19.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Baslieux	54	507 km N	528	21.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Heining-lès-Bouzonville	57	516 km NE	487	19.8	No daily shops	no figures

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Corcelles-les-Monts	21	262 km N	684	19.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Noaillac	33	307 km W	552	26.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 32 % · humidity 43 %
Baslieux	54	507 km N	528	21.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Heining-lès-Bouzonville	57	516 km NE	487	19.8	No daily shops	no figures
Étinehem-Méricourt	80	546 km N	589	25.2	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 23 % · humidity 86 %
Nielles-lès-Ardres	62	655 km N	577	26.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 31 % · 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 Saint-Vidal'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
Entre-deux-Eaux	88	427 km NE	510	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Eusèbe	74	194 km NE	633	26.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Villy-le-Bouveret	74	213 km NE	653	26	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-sur-Coise	69	85 km NE	565	26.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Sinard	38	147 km E	724	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Autechaux-Roide	25	347 km NE	487	10.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

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