Sainte-Foy-l'Argentière

Rhône · CC des Monts du Lyonnais · INSEE 69201

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Partly served 52.3/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 83 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sainte-Foy-l'Argentière (INSEE 69201) is in Rhône (69), part of CC des Monts du Lyonnais. Population 1,312 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 52.3/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Grocery (épicerie / supérette)).

Better served than 83 % of the 12,612 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	0.26	25	6.47
Social	0.67	20	13.44
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.64	10	6.39
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.71

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 3 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 2 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

3 × Bakery (boulangerie) (PATISSERIE CHOCOLATERIE BRUNO GUERPILLON · L ATELIER DES FRERES DUPIN · LE FOURNIL DE MANO ET FRANCOIS). ^[3,4]

6 × Restaurant (FOUR-MERLIN JANINE · SULTAN KEBAB · PIZZA PIT · KHAO THIP D ASIE · GANG OF PIZZA). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE). ^[3]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINTE MARIE). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE VAL D'ARGENT). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (MARIE FRANÇOISE LARUE, MÉDECIN · GAETAN CALVOSA, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE VIANNAY MATHAN). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE POLYVALENTE). ^[3]

2 × Bank (CAISSE D'EPARGNE ET DE PREVOYANCE DE RHONE ALPES · CAISSE REG CREDIT AGRICOLE MUT CTRE-EST). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (L INVENT HAIR · AMAZONE · L'INSTANT COIFFURE BY AMANDA). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Supermarket, 3 × Restaurant, 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket. ^[4,3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	3	PATISSERIE CHOCOLATERIE BRUNO GUERPILLON · L ATELIER DES FRERES DUPIN · LE FOURNIL DE MANO ET FRANCOIS	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 3 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	6	FOUR-MERLIN JANINE · SULTAN KEBAB · PIZZA PIT · KHAO THIP D ASIE · GANG OF PIZZA	INSEE BPE 6 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINTE MARIE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE VAL D'ARGENT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	MARIE FRANÇOISE LARUE, MÉDECIN · GAETAN CALVOSA, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE VIANNAY MATHAN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	SALLE POLYVALENTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	2	CAISSE D'EPARGNE ET DE PREVOYANCE DE RHONE ALPES · CAISSE REG CREDIT AGRICOLE MUT CTRE-EST	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Hairdresser	3	L INVENT HAIR · AMAZONE · L'INSTANT COIFFURE BY AMANDA	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

A market is recorded here, but no source gives the day. ^[5,6]

Trajectory

1968: 1,114 2023: 1,312 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,290 (2012) → 1,312 (2023): 1.7 % over 10 years. ^[7,1]

Population 1,152 (1990) → 1,312 (2023): 13.9 % over 30 years. ^[8,1]

Dwellings (2023): 787, of which 2.9 % second homes and 9.7 % vacant. ^[9]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 1.6 km SW 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 (Sainte-Foy-l'Argentière): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Food shop (Souzy): 1.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

GP (Sainte-Foy-l'Argentière): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Sainte-Foy-l'Argentière): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Sainte-Foy-l'Argentière): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 26.5

Days at or below 0 °C 62.3

Muggy days a summer 0.5

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 62 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ST-SYMPHORIEN-C weather station, 7.8 km away at 610 m; the village itself is at 431 m. ^[12]

The village sits 179 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 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at BRINDAS, 17.2 km away at 317 m, over 20 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 114 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 808 mm of rain a year, spread over 108 days — about 7.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ST-GENIS-L'ARGENTIERE, 1.4 km away at 512 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

What property sold for

56 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 170,495 € — 1,911 € per m² of built surface. ^[13]

51 flats sold over the same window, at a median of 116,000 € — 1,647 € per m². ^[13]

The median across Rhône is 3,334 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[13]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Grocery (épicerie / supérette)

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 69201/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2026-06— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/26eee0fd-7f1b-3dfb-9c25-ead31ad427ba— “Marché hebdomadaire”(unverified)
DATAtourisme 2026-07— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/91731aba-cfba-3b8e-96ec-3520f7c0fa49— “Marché bio”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 69201/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 69201/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 69201/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 69201
INSEE BPE 2025 — 69178
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Tricot	60	451 km N	1,392	41.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Noisseville	57	404 km N	1,109	42.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Mont-sous-Vaudrey	39	166 km NE	1,309	49.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Beaulieu-sur-Layon	49	426 km NW	1,345	51.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
La Cluse-et-Mijoux	25	196 km NE	1,310	42.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 32 % · humidity 93 %
Rimogne	08	460 km N	1,317	44.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Mont-sous-Vaudrey	39	166 km NE	1,309	49.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
La Cluse-et-Mijoux	25	196 km NE	1,310	42.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 32 % · humidity 93 %
Noisseville	57	404 km N	1,109	42.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Beaulieu-sur-Layon	49	426 km NW	1,345	51.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Tricot	60	451 km N	1,392	41.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Rimogne	08	460 km N	1,317	44.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 80 % · 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 Sainte-Foy-l'Argentière'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
Mont-sous-Vaudrey	39	166 km NE	1,309	49.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Longeault-Pluvault	21	178 km N	1,174	36.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Beauregard-l'Évêque	63	92 km W	1,586	44.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Villeneuve-sur-Allier	03	142 km NW	1,024	38.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Surbourg	67	438 km NE	1,733	43.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Génelard	71	99 km N	1,394	41.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

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