Le Vernet

Haute-Loire · CA du Puy-en-Velay · INSEE 43260

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

No daily shops 7.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 36 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Vernet (INSEE 43260) is in Haute-Loire (43), part of CA du Puy-en-Velay. Population 22 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 7.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 36 % of the 1,110 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	5	0
Population trend	0	10	0
Housing mix	0	5	0

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 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”.

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

1 × Café / bar. ^[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, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	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	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	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: 79 2023: 22 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 22 (2012) → 22 (2023): 0 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 52 (1990) → 22 (2023): -57.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 38, of which 55.3 % second homes and 10.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 4.1 km NEBakery — 5.1 km SFood shop — 5.2 km SGP — 7.2 km NWPharmacy — 8.8 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 (Saint-Privat-d'Allier): 5.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Privat-d'Allier): 5.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Siaugues-Sainte-Marie): 7.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Bains): 8.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Jean-de-Nay): 4.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 4.9

Days at or below 0 °C 131.4▸

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 131 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the LE PUY-LOUDES weather station, 8.3 km away at 831 m; the village itself is at 1,105 m. ^[12]

The village sits 274 m above 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, 8.3 km away at 831 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 274 m below 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 816 mm of rain a year, spread over 109 days — about 7.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at SAINT-BERAIN, 3.8 km away at 1,025 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 — 43260/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43260/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43260/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 43260/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 43221
INSEE BPE 2025 — 43239
INSEE BPE 2025 — 43018
INSEE BPE 2025 — 43197
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
Gumiane	26	139 km SE	20	7.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Villebois-les-Pins	26	173 km SE	22	10.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Rimon-et-Savel	26	135 km E	22	4.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Arrodets	65	351 km SW	23	3.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 12 % · humidity 64 %
Lano	2B	536 km SE	21	6.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 8 % · winter 0 % · humidity 100 %
La Godivelle	63	71 km NW	19	7.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Godivelle	63	71 km NW	19	7.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Rimon-et-Savel	26	135 km E	22	4.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Gumiane	26	139 km SE	20	7.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Villebois-les-Pins	26	173 km SE	22	10.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Arrodets	65	351 km SW	23	3.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 12 % · humidity 64 %
Lano	2B	536 km SE	21	6.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 8 % · winter 0 % · 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 Le Vernet'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
Grailhen	65	360 km SW	22	19.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Sansa	66	296 km SW	31	11.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Barrancoueu	65	357 km SW	40	9.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Villard-Notre-Dame	38	186 km E	25	16.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Lagarde-d'Apt	84	185 km SE	30	12.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Michel-en-Beaumont	38	176 km E	32	6.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

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