Argis

Ain · CC de la Plaine de l'Ain · INSEE 01017

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

No daily shops 17.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 25 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Argis (INSEE 01017) is in Ain (01), part of CC de la Plaine de l'Ain. Population 419 (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/01017-argis

Vitality score

Vitality score 17.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 25 % of the 17,969 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	0.53	10	5.35
Housing mix	0.67	5	3.37

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 counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie).

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]
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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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 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: 582 2023: 419 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 424 (2012) → 419 (2023): -1.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 405 (1990) → 419 (2023): 3.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 326, of which 16.3 % second homes and 21.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.3 km SEGP — 2.4 km SEPharmacy — 2.4 km SEBakery — 4.1 km NW 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-Rambert-en-Bugey): 4.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Tenay): 2.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Tenay): 2.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Tenay): 2.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Argis): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 28.4

Days at or below 0 °C 65.2

Muggy days a summer 3.3

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 28 days a year at or above 30 °C and 65 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ST RAMBERT CG01 weather station, 2.8 km away at 296 m; the village itself is at 317 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ST RAMBERT CG01, 2.8 km away at 296 m, over 13 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,463 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 11.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at TENAY, 2.1 km away at 349 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 — 01017/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01017/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01017/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01017/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01384
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01416
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01017
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
Chémeré-le-Roi	53	504 km NW	431	18.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 77 % · humidity 86 %
Courgent	78	437 km NW	414	19.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Capelle-les-Grands	27	511 km NW	434	21.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 69 % · humidity 86 %
Villebéon	77	318 km NW	452	20.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Barquet	27	491 km NW	449	23.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 51 % · winter 92 %
Saint-Benoît-d'Hébertot	14	543 km NW	446	23	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 53 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Villebéon	77	318 km NW	452	20.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Courgent	78	437 km NW	414	19.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Barquet	27	491 km NW	449	23.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 51 % · winter 92 %
Chémeré-le-Roi	53	504 km NW	431	18.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 77 % · humidity 86 %
Capelle-les-Grands	27	511 km NW	434	21.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 69 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Benoît-d'Hébertot	14	543 km NW	446	23	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 53 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Argis'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
Saint-Pierre-de-Chérennes	38	91 km S	461	23.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Lestelle-de-Saint-Martory	31	479 km SW	430	20.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Maurice-le-Vieil	89	266 km NW	370	23.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Beine	89	249 km NW	437	19.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Agencourt	21	138 km N	416	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Biarne	39	135 km N	433	21.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

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