Le Malzieu-Forain

Lozère · CC des Terres d'Apcher-Margeride-Aubrac · INSEE 48089

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

No daily shops 19.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 24 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Malzieu-Forain (INSEE 48089) is in Lozère (48), part of CC des Terres d'Apcher-Margeride-Aubrac. Population 484 (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 19.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 24 % of the 17,855 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	0.87	10	8.67
Housing mix	0.24	5	1.21

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, 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	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 533 2023: 484 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 462 (2012) → 484 (2023): 4.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 354 (1990) → 484 (2023): 36.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 401, of which 37.9 % second homes and 5.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Le Malzieu-Ville): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Le Malzieu-Ville): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Le Malzieu-Ville): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Le Malzieu-Ville): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Le Malzieu-Ville): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12

Days at or below 0 °C 105.4▸

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 105 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the ST CHELY-D APCHER weather station, 6.7 km away at 1,032 m; the village itself is at 866 m. ^[9]

The village sits 166 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.7 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[9]

An average of 844 mm of rain a year, spread over 111 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at LE MALZIEU, 0.2 km away at 859 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 — 48089/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48089/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48089/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48089/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 48090
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
Baraize	36	228 km NW	352	19	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 22 %
Thénac	24	236 km W	443	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 39 %
Plaisance	24	219 km W	412	16.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 51 % · winter 26 %
Marminiac	46	170 km W	349	18.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 33 % · winter 61 %
Saint-Médard-d'Excideuil	24	185 km W	546	17.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 85 % · winter 0 %
Fleurac	24	184 km W	328	20.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 38 % · winter 54 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Marminiac	46	170 km W	349	18.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 33 % · winter 61 %
Fleurac	24	184 km W	328	20.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 38 % · winter 54 %
Saint-Médard-d'Excideuil	24	185 km W	546	17.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 85 % · winter 0 %
Plaisance	24	219 km W	412	16.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 51 % · winter 26 %
Baraize	36	228 km NW	352	19	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 22 %
Thénac	24	236 km W	443	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 39 %

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