Lent

Ain · CA du Bassin de Bourg-en-Bresse · INSEE 01211

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

Partly served 41.7/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 54 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lent (INSEE 01211) is in Ain (01), part of CA du Bassin de Bourg-en-Bresse. Population 1,512 (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 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/01211-lent

Vitality score

Vitality score 41.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 54 % of the 11,575 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	0.59	10	5.85
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.95	10	9.5
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.59

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 2 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]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE FOURNIL DE LENT). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (AUBERGE LENTAISE · PIZZ'A LENT). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (GROUPE SCOLAIRE DU BEFFROI). ^[3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ROMAIN LAFORET, MÉDECIN · LUCIE CHAMPIAT, MÉDECIN · MARC ZARAGORI, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE LENT). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (FREDERIQUE LECLERE COIFFURE A DOMICILE · COLOR'A). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie).

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LE FOURNIL DE LENT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	AUBERGE LENTAISE · PIZZ'A LENT	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	GROUPE SCOLAIRE DU BEFFROI	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	ROMAIN LAFORET, MÉDECIN · LUCIE CHAMPIAT, MÉDECIN · MARC ZARAGORI, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE CHAPALAIN	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	LENT AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE LENT	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	FREDERIQUE LECLERE COIFFURE A DOMICILE · COLOR'A	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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

A market is recorded here, but no source gives the day. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 778 2023: 1,512 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,385 (2012) → 1,512 (2023): 9.2 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,043 (1990) → 1,512 (2023): 45 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 752, of which 4.1 % second homes and 6 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 2.7 km W 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 (Lent): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Servas): 2.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Lent): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Lent): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Lent): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

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, 11.7 km away at 260 m; the village itself is at 257 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at CEYZERIAT_SAPC, 11.7 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, 9.5 km away at 264 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01211/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2026-07— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/5140a3c1-2366-3b0e-881b-c28f22dbf366— “Marché hebdomadaire”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01211/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01211/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01211/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01211
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01405
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
Lugon-et-l'Île-du-Carnay	33	450 km W	1,395	41.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 57 % · humidity 14 %
Ginestas	11	367 km SW	1,611	45.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 41 % · humidity 0 %
Lamarque	33	474 km W	1,335	44.1	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 42 % · humidity 50 %
Marcorignan	11	369 km SW	1,333	45.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 23 % · humidity 0 %
Les Gonds	17	452 km W	1,740	45.7	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 51 % · humidity 79 %
Villepinte	11	400 km SW	1,243	35.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 36 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Ginestas	11	367 km SW	1,611	45.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 41 % · humidity 0 %
Marcorignan	11	369 km SW	1,333	45.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 23 % · humidity 0 %
Villepinte	11	400 km SW	1,243	35.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 36 % · humidity 50 %
Lugon-et-l'Île-du-Carnay	33	450 km W	1,395	41.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 57 % · humidity 14 %
Les Gonds	17	452 km W	1,740	45.7	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 51 % · humidity 79 %
Lamarque	33	474 km W	1,335	44.1	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 42 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Lent'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
Wingen-sur-Moder	67	352 km NE	1,530	47.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Beauregard-l'Évêque	63	151 km W	1,586	44.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Bussières	42	78 km SW	1,540	37.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Roye	70	200 km NE	1,484	43.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Oberbronn	67	362 km NE	1,404	35.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Tossiat	01	9.6 km E	1,425	49.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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