Birieux

Ain · CC de la Dombes · INSEE 01045

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

Few services 24.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 64 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Birieux (INSEE 01045) is in Ain (01), part of CC de la Dombes. Population 275 (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/01045-birieux

Vitality score

Vitality score 24.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 64 % of the 17,626 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	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.85	5	4.27

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 (AUBERGE DU GRAND BIRIEUX). ^[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	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	1	AUBERGE DU GRAND BIRIEUX	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 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: 110 peak 2017: 283 2023: 275 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 265 (2012) → 275 (2023): 3.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 125 (1990) → 275 (2023): 120 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 123, of which 7.3 % second homes and 5.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.5 km SEBakery — 4.1 km WFood shop — 5.3 km NGP — 5.3 km NPharmacy — 5.3 km N 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-Marcel): 4.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Villars-les-Dombes): 5.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Villars-les-Dombes): 5.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Villars-les-Dombes): 5.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Le Montellier): 3.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 30.5

Days at or below 0 °C 54.3

Muggy days a summer 1.9

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 31 days a year at or above 30 °C and 54 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MARLIEUX weather station, 9.5 km away at 277 m; the village itself is at 283 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at BALAN_AERO, 14.4 km away at 196 m, over 10 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 87 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 913 mm of rain a year, spread over 115 days — about 7.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MONTLUEL, 5.3 km away at 275 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 — 01045/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01045/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01045/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01045/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01371
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01443
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01260
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
Boncourt	02	415 km N	272	20.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Croix-Moligneaux	80	456 km N	270	17.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Gapennes	80	523 km NW	270	21.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Chaignes	27	435 km NW	270	22.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Lahosse	40	523 km SW	288	21.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 72 %
Jû-Belloc	32	477 km SW	286	19.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 100 % · winter 65 % · humidity 36 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Boncourt	02	415 km N	272	20.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Chaignes	27	435 km NW	270	22.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Croix-Moligneaux	80	456 km N	270	17.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Jû-Belloc	32	477 km SW	286	19.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 100 % · winter 65 % · humidity 36 %
Gapennes	80	523 km NW	270	21.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Lahosse	40	523 km SW	288	21.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 72 %

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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 Birieux'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
Blanzaguet-Saint-Cybard	16	370 km W	270	20.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Vareilles	71	71 km NW	276	18.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Lapeyrouse	01	5.9 km NW	348	24.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Montoulieu-Saint-Bernard	31	445 km SW	230	23.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
His	31	455 km SW	235	20.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Lureuil	36	319 km W	274	25.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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