Cuzieu

Ain · CC Bugey Sud · INSEE 01141

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

Few services 24.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 47 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cuzieu (INSEE 01141) is in Ain (01), part of CC Bugey Sud. Population 424 (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.

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Vitality score

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

Confidence: high.

Better served than 47 % of the 17,961 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	0.84	5	4.21

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. ^[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	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	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 143 peak 2017: 448 2023: 424 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 410 (2012) → 424 (2023): 3.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 240 (1990) → 424 (2023): 76.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 216, of which 7.9 % second homes and 7.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 2.8 km NEPrimary school — 3.4 km NGP — 3.5 km NWPharmacy — 3.5 km NWFood shop — 3.7 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 (Ceyzérieu): 2.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Virieu-le-Grand): 3.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Virieu-le-Grand): 3.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Virieu-le-Grand): 3.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Martin-de-Bavel): 3.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 30.3

Days at or below 0 °C 54.6

Muggy days a summer 2

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 30 days a year at or above 30 °C and 55 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the BELLEY weather station, 5.6 km away at 330 m; the village itself is at 335 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at BELLEY, 5.6 km away at 330 m, over 23 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,117 mm of rain a year, spread over 116 days — about 9.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at BELLEY, 5.6 km away at 330 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 — 01141/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01141/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01141/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01141/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01073
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01452
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01372
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
Auxelles-Bas	90	229 km N	417	20.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Gland	02	396 km NW	425	16.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Rémering	57	390 km N	421	17	No daily shops	no figures
Saint-Maixent-de-Beugné	79	490 km W	416	23.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %
Le Breuil-en-Bessin	14	622 km NW	409	24.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Denis-du-Maine	53	528 km NW	449	24.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Auxelles-Bas	90	229 km N	417	20.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Rémering	57	390 km N	421	17	No daily shops	no figures
Gland	02	396 km NW	425	16.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Maixent-de-Beugné	79	490 km W	416	23.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Denis-du-Maine	53	528 km NW	449	24.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Le Breuil-en-Bessin	14	622 km NW	409	24.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 64 % · 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 Cuzieu'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
Vouthon	16	405 km W	405	20.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Royas	38	56 km SW	427	27.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Varennes-sur-Morge	63	193 km W	429	24.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Chaptuzat	63	194 km W	485	23.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Lapeyrouse	01	57 km W	348	24.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Exoudun	79	448 km W	531	15.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

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