Dortan

Ain · CA Haut-Bugey Agglomération · INSEE 01148

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

Few services 38.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 34 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Dortan (INSEE 01148) is in Ain (01), part of CA Haut-Bugey Agglomération. Population 2,074 (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/01148-dortan

Vitality score

Vitality score 38.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 34 % of the 9,364 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	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.39	10	3.93
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.48	10	4.84
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.8

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 2 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 × Bakery (boulangerie) (CELINE ET FRANCOIS). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (ALTUNTAS HAFIZA · LES DELICES D'OR). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (THIERRY ALLIERI, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE DORTAN). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (DORTAN LPAC AP). ^[3]

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

3 × Hairdresser (COIFFURE GERALDINE · ANAIS COIFFURE · AUX MIROIRS D'OR). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Campsite.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	CELINE ET FRANCOIS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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	2	ALTUNTAS HAFIZA · LES DELICES D'OR	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	THIERRY ALLIERI, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE DORTAN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	DORTAN LPAC AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE DE DORTAN	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	COIFFURE GERALDINE · ANAIS COIFFURE · AUX MIROIRS D'OR	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 1,425 peak 1999: 2,186 2023: 2,074 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,871 (2012) → 2,074 (2023): 10.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 2,107 (1990) → 2,074 (2023): -1.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 963, of which 2 % second homes and 6.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 2.8 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 (Dortan): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lavancia-Epercy): 2.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Dortan): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Dortan): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Dortan): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 29

Days at or below 0 °C 86.5

Muggy days a summer 0.4

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 29 days a year at or above 30 °C and 87 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ARBENT weather station, 4.6 km away at 534 m; the village itself is at 329 m. ^[10]

The village sits 205 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 6.06 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ARBENT, 4.6 km away at 534 m, over 20 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 205 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 1,484 mm of rain a year, spread over 138 days — about 10.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ARBENT, 4.6 km away at 534 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 — 01148/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01148/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01148/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01148/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01148
INSEE BPE 2025 — 39283
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
Frontonas	38	83 km SW	2,123	47.7	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 34 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Geniès-des-Mourgues	34	318 km SW	2,148	51	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 21 % · winter 39 % · humidity 0 %
Scorbé-Clairvaux	86	405 km W	2,174	44.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 27 % · humidity 71 %
Belloy-en-France	95	394 km NW	2,250	44.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 24 % · humidity 64 %
Bavent	14	544 km NW	1,885	39.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 20 % · humidity 93 %
Valleroy	54	322 km N	2,375	40.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Frontonas	38	83 km SW	2,123	47.7	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 34 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Geniès-des-Mourgues	34	318 km SW	2,148	51	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 21 % · winter 39 % · humidity 0 %
Valleroy	54	322 km N	2,375	40.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Belloy-en-France	95	394 km NW	2,250	44.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 24 % · humidity 64 %
Scorbé-Clairvaux	86	405 km W	2,174	44.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 27 % · humidity 71 %
Bavent	14	544 km NW	1,885	39.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 20 % · 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 Dortan'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
Alby-sur-Chéran	74	62 km SE	2,664	58.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Cessieu	38	87 km S	3,259	41.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Vergongheon	43	210 km SW	1,797	55.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
La Bâtie-Montgascon	38	83 km S	2,035	54.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Paul-des-Landes	15	302 km SW	1,542	52.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Montenois	25	151 km NE	1,362	48.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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