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Lapeyrouse

Ain · CC de la Dombes · INSEE 01207

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

Few services 24.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 55 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lapeyrouse (INSEE 01207) is in Ain (01), part of CC de la Dombes. Population 348 (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/01207-lapeyrouse

Vitality score

Vitality score 24.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 55 % of the 18,020 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0.32206.32
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend11010
Housing mix0.8954.47

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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant1INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 183 2023: 348 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 297 (2012) → 348 (2023): 17.2 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 207 (1990) → 348 (2023): 68.1 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 151, of which 5.3 % second homes and 6.6 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 3.7 km NE (Villars-les-Dombes)Bakery — 3.8 km S (Saint-Marcel)Primary school — 3.8 km S (Saint-Marcel)GP — 4.7 km NE (Villars-les-Dombes)Pharmacy — 4.7 km NE (Villars-les-Dombes)
Food shop — 3.7 km NEBakery — 3.8 km SPrimary school — 3.8 km SGP — 4.7 km NEPharmacy — 4.7 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 (Saint-Marcel): 3.8 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Villars-les-Dombes): 3.7 km to the north-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Villars-les-Dombes): 4.7 km to the north-east (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Villars-les-Dombes): 4.7 km to the north-east (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Saint-Marcel): 3.8 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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. [10]

Measured at the MARLIEUX weather station, 8.2 km away at 277 m; the village itself is at 293 m. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at BALAN_AERO, 19.5 km away at 196 m, over 10 summers. [10]

That station sits 97 m below 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 891 mm of rain a year, spread over 114 days — about 7.8 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at MARLIEUX, 8.2 km away at 277 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

What property sold for

17 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 290,000 € — 2,164 € per m² of built surface. [11]

The median across Ain is 2,288 € per m², so this commune sits about level with it. [11]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01207/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01207/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01207/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01207/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 01371
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 01443
  10. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
  11. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Tabre09415 km SW35116.3No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Guntzviller57345 km NE35319.2No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Malroy57367 km N35323.2Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Billy-sous-Mangiennes55375 km N34918.3No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Bouër72404 km NW35024.6Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Thoraise25150 km NE33622.7Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Thoraise25150 km NE33622.7Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Guntzviller57345 km NE35319.2No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Malroy57367 km N35323.2Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Billy-sous-Mangiennes55375 km N34918.3No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Bouër72404 km NW35024.6Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Tabre09415 km SW35116.3No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 91 % · 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 Lapeyrouse'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Vouthon16352 km W40520.3Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Cuzieu0157 km E42424.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Royas3854 km S42727.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Varennes-sur-Morge63138 km W42924.8Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Birieux015.9 km SE27524.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Curdin71102 km NW34512.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %