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Les Neyrolles

Ain · CA Haut-Bugey Agglomération · INSEE 01274

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

Few services 32.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 60 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Les Neyrolles (INSEE 01274) is in Ain (01), part of CA Haut-Bugey Agglomération. Population 628 (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/01274-les-neyrolles

Vitality score

Vitality score 32.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 60 % of the 16,827 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 food0.21255.27
Social0.32206.32
Education0.63106.32
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.52105.21
Housing mix0.9454.72

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 0 of 4
Public services 0 of 1
Culture 0 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) (BOULANGERIE LA NOTRE). [3,4]

1 × Restaurant (AMAROK'S). [3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). [3]

1 × Hairdresser (ELODIE COIFFURE). [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)1BOULANGERIE LA NOTREINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant1AMAROK'SINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUEINSEE BPE 1 [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]
Hairdresser1ELODIE COIFFUREINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 383 peak 2007: 663 2023: 628 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 634 (2012) → 628 (2023): -0.9 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 615 (1990) → 628 (2023): 2.1 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 287, of which 2.8 % second homes and 10.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 1.6 km W (Nantua)GP — 2.1 km NW (Nantua)Pharmacy — 2.5 km NW (Nantua)
In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 1.6 km WGP — 2.1 km NWPharmacy — 2.5 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 (Les Neyrolles): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Nantua): 1.6 km to the west (straight line). [9]

GP (Nantua): 2.1 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Nantua): 2.5 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Les Neyrolles): 0.1 km to the south-west (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 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 98 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the VIEU weather station, 8.6 km away at 616 m; the village itself is at 538 m. [10]

The village sits 78 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 LA BALME SUR CERDON_SAPC, 12.9 km away at 596 m, over 12 summers. [10]

That station sits 58 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 1,686 mm of rain a year, spread over 146 days — about 11.5 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at NANTUA, 2.1 km away at 483 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01274/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01274/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01274/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01274/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 01274
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 01269
  10. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Pierre67285 km NE61441.7Partly servedSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 27 % · humidity 86 %
Grundviller57338 km N67436.8Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Amigny-Rouy02423 km NW70735.5Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 24 % · humidity 93 %
Villeneuve-sous-Dammartin77392 km NW59539.5Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 27 % · humidity 86 %
Cormenon41413 km NW67931.5Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 15 % · humidity 93 %
Muhlbach-sur-Bruche67292 km NE68336.8Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 32 % · humidity 86 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Pierre67285 km NE61441.7Partly servedSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 27 % · humidity 86 %
Muhlbach-sur-Bruche67292 km NE68336.8Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 32 % · humidity 86 %
Grundviller57338 km N67436.8Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Villeneuve-sous-Dammartin77392 km NW59539.5Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 27 % · humidity 86 %
Cormenon41413 km NW67931.5Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 15 % · humidity 93 %
Amigny-Rouy02423 km NW70735.5Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 24 % · 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 Les Neyrolles'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
Dommartin25101 km NE86434.8Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Maillat017.3 km W66942.5Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Villars-lès-Blamont25167 km NE46943.8Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Bining57344 km N1,16220.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Plancher-les-Mines70199 km NE83932.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Villy-le-Pelloux7442 km E1,06227.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %