Certines

Ain · CA du Bassin de Bourg-en-Bresse · INSEE 01069

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

Few services 34.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 31 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Certines (INSEE 01069) is in Ain (01), part of CA du Bassin de Bourg-en-Bresse. Population 1,531 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/01069-certines

Vitality score

Vitality score 34.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 31 % of the 11,467 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.85

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LE CERTINOIS). ^[3,4]

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

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

2 × Hairdresser (BELOUZARD LAURANE · NC COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	2	LE CERTINOIS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE E QUINET	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	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	2	BELOUZARD LAURANE · NC COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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: 429 2023: 1,531 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,443 (2012) → 1,531 (2023): 6.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 916 (1990) → 1,531 (2023): 67.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 714, of which 1.5 % second homes and 2.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 1.3 km NBakery — 2.2 km EGP — 2.6 km NFood shop — 4.0 km NPharmacy — 4.1 km E 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 (Tossiat): 2.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Montagnat): 4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Montagnat): 2.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Tossiat): 4.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Certines): 1.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21.4

Days at or below 0 °C 64

Muggy days a summer 2.6

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 64 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CEYZERIAT_SAPC weather station, 8.2 km away at 260 m; the village itself is at 250 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at CEYZERIAT_SAPC, 8.2 km away at 260 m, over 18 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,116 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 8.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SAINT MARTIN DU MONT, 4.4 km away at 264 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 — 01069/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01069/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01069/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01069/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01422
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01254
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01069
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
Bourg-Saint-Christophe	01	28 km S	1,562	31.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jean-sur-Vilaine	35	548 km NW	1,375	34.5	Few services	no figures
Crottet	01	33 km NW	1,847	30.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 62 % · winter 80 %
Eecke	59	553 km N	1,213	34.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 50 % · humidity 86 %
Le Val-Saint-Germain	91	363 km NW	1,576	39.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
D'Huison-Longueville	91	341 km NW	1,557	25.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bourg-Saint-Christophe	01	28 km S	1,562	31.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Crottet	01	33 km NW	1,847	30.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 62 % · winter 80 %
D'Huison-Longueville	91	341 km NW	1,557	25.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Le Val-Saint-Germain	91	363 km NW	1,576	39.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Jean-sur-Vilaine	35	548 km NW	1,375	34.5	Few services	no figures
Eecke	59	553 km N	1,213	34.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 50 % · 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 Certines'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
D'Huison-Longueville	91	341 km NW	1,557	25.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Spechbach	68	227 km NE	1,418	33	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Wolfgantzen	68	270 km NE	1,190	27.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Baldenheim	67	290 km NE	1,254	31.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Chanteau	45	322 km NW	1,590	23.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Rebréchien	45	320 km NW	1,441	28.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %

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