Mézières-lez-Cléry

Loiret · CC des Terres du Val de Loire · INSEE 45204

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

Few services 24.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 20 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Mézières-lez-Cléry (INSEE 45204) is in Loiret (45), part of CC des Terres du Val de Loire. Population 883 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 24.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 20 % of the 15,072 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.52

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

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

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 433 2023: 883 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 807 (2012) → 883 (2023): 9.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 583 (1990) → 883 (2023): 51.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 420, of which 4.8 % second homes and 8.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.0 km WBakery — 3.1 km NGP — 3.4 km WPharmacy — 3.4 km W 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 (Mareau-aux-Prés): 3.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Cléry-Saint-André): 3 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Cléry-Saint-André): 3.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Cléry-Saint-André): 3.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Mézières-lez-Cléry): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21.8

Days at or below 0 °C 60.9

Muggy days a summer 1.1

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 61 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ST-HILAIRE-ST-M weather station, 6.2 km away at 100 m; the village itself is at 96 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ORLEANS, 19.2 km away at 123 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 730 mm of rain a year, spread over 116 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ST-HILAIRE-ST-M, 6.2 km away at 100 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 45204/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 45204/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 45204/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 45204/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 45196
INSEE BPE 2025 — 45098
INSEE BPE 2025 — 45204
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
Neuville-sur-Brenne	37	71 km W	872	24.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Draillant	74	391 km SE	872	24.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Héloup	61	147 km NW	899	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pierre-la-Garenne	27	151 km N	927	18.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-le-Vieux	87	236 km S	865	21.2	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 100 % · winter 77 % · humidity 79 %
Paucourt	45	78 km E	927	21.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Neuville-sur-Brenne	37	71 km W	872	24.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Paucourt	45	78 km E	927	21.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Héloup	61	147 km NW	899	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pierre-la-Garenne	27	151 km N	927	18.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-le-Vieux	87	236 km S	865	21.2	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 100 % · winter 77 % · humidity 79 %
Draillant	74	391 km SE	872	24.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 99 % · 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 Mézières-lez-Cléry'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
Paucourt	45	78 km E	927	21.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Menthonnex-sous-Clermont	74	376 km SE	811	24.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Ville-sur-Jarnioux	69	297 km SE	828	23.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Laurent-d'Andenay	71	237 km SE	961	19	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Vouzan	16	270 km SW	818	20.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Meyrieu-les-Étangs	38	364 km SE	1,024	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

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