Châtillon-la-Palud

Ain · CC de la Dombes · INSEE 01092

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

Partly served 44.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 58 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Châtillon-la-Palud (INSEE 01092) is in Ain (01), part of CC de la Dombes. Population 1,698 (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/01092-chatillon-la-palud

Vitality score

Vitality score 44.2/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 58 % of the 10,706 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	0.34	25	8.55
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.45

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (DU SALE AU SUCRE · LE PAIN AU NATUREL). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (DB CHATILLON 01). ^[3]

4 × Restaurant (DECRE FELIX & DECRE FANCOIS · DECRE FELIX · LE P'TIT CHATILLON). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE LA PEPINIERE). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (CHATILLON LA PALUD AP). ^[3]

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

3 × Hairdresser (C LUN'HAIR - C'EST LA SOLUTION TIERS PAYANT). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 2 × Restaurant, 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	DU SALE AU SUCRE · LE PAIN AU NATUREL	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	DB CHATILLON 01	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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	4	DECRE FELIX & DECRE FANCOIS · DECRE FELIX · LE P'TIT CHATILLON	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE LA PEPINIERE	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	1	CHATILLON LA PALUD AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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	3	C LUN'HAIR - C'EST LA SOLUTION TIERS PAYANT	INSEE BPE 3 / 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: 660 2023: 1,698 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,578 (2012) → 1,698 (2023): 7.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 874 (1990) → 1,698 (2023): 94.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 782, of which 5.5 % second homes and 6.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 0.5 km SBakery — 0.8 km SGP — 4.2 km NEPharmacy — 4.2 km NE 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 (Châtillon-la-Palud): 0.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Châtillon-la-Palud): 0.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Priay): 4.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Priay): 4.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Châtillon-la-Palud): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.4

Days at or below 0 °C 63.8

Muggy days a summer 1.4

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 64 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the AMBERIEU weather station, 5.8 km away at 250 m; the village itself is at 230 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at AMBERIEU, 5.8 km away at 250 m, over 29 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,154 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 9.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CHATILLON, 0.3 km away at 253 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01092/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01092/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01092/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01092/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01092
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01314
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
Chiché	79	440 km W	1,679	42.2	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Falleron	85	542 km W	1,725	45.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 62 %
Saint-Sernin	07	170 km SW	1,872	38.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Benon	17	469 km W	1,859	39.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 85 % · winter 77 %
La Gouesnière	35	613 km NW	2,021	47.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 41 % · humidity 93 %
Savigneux	01	32 km W	1,469	41.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 92 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Savigneux	01	32 km W	1,469	41.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 92 %
Saint-Sernin	07	170 km SW	1,872	38.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Chiché	79	440 km W	1,679	42.2	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Benon	17	469 km W	1,859	39.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 85 % · winter 77 %
Falleron	85	542 km W	1,725	45.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 62 %
La Gouesnière	35	613 km NW	2,021	47.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 41 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Châtillon-la-Palud'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-Rémy-en-Rollat	03	146 km W	1,774	39	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Torcé-en-Vallée	72	439 km NW	1,397	40.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Corneille	72	439 km NW	1,510	32.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Romain-la-Motte	42	99 km W	1,436	39.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Béron	73	64 km SE	1,713	36.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Mareau-aux-Prés	45	335 km NW	1,669	43.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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