Pizay

Ain · CC de la Côtière à Montluel · INSEE 01297

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

Partly served 43.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 73 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Pizay (INSEE 01297) is in Ain (01), part of CC de la Côtière à Montluel. Population 937 (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/01297-pizay

Vitality score

Vitality score 43.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 73 % of the 14,735 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.84

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 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) (GUILLON SAS). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (SARL JB RESTAURATION · AUBERGE DE CAMPAGNE DU CENTRE). ^[3,4]

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

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

1 × Hairdresser (MAEVA B COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	GUILLON SAS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	SARL JB RESTAURATION · AUBERGE DE CAMPAGNE DU CENTRE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	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	1	MAEVA B COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 1 / 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

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

Trajectory

1968: 237 2023: 937 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 770 (2012) → 937 (2023): 21.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 433 (1990) → 937 (2023): 116.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 372, of which 1.6 % second homes and 4.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 4.4 km SPharmacy — 4.4 km SGP — 4.5 km S 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 (Pizay): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Dagneux): 4.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Dagneux): 4.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Dagneux): 4.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 36.7

Days at or below 0 °C 69.1

Muggy days a summer 1.9

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 37 days a year at or above 30 °C and 69 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LOYETTES weather station, 14.7 km away at 198 m; the village itself is at 286 m. ^[10]

The village sits 88 m above 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 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at BALAN_AERO, 6.4 km away at 196 m, over 10 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 90 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 913 mm of rain a year, spread over 115 days — about 7.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at MONTLUEL, 6 km away at 275 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 — 01297/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01297/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01297/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01297/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01297
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01142
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
Saint-Nizier-le-Désert	01	19 km N	921	40.1	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Louzac-Saint-André	16	427 km W	946	34.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 46 % · humidity 64 %
Étaimpuis	76	510 km NW	880	34.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 23 % · winter 61 %
Bascons	40	491 km SW	855	40.9	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 55 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Sauveur-Marville	28	416 km NW	921	31.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Belleau	54	337 km N	766	29.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Nizier-le-Désert	01	19 km N	921	40.1	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Belleau	54	337 km N	766	29.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Sauveur-Marville	28	416 km NW	921	31.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Louzac-Saint-André	16	427 km W	946	34.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 46 % · humidity 64 %
Bascons	40	491 km SW	855	40.9	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 55 % · humidity 43 %
Étaimpuis	76	510 km NW	880	34.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 23 % · winter 61 %

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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 Pizay'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
Bohas-Meyriat-Rignat	01	36 km NE	938	41.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Christophe-en-Bresse	71	96 km N	1,090	34.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Faramans	01	3.2 km NE	934	42.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Malafretaz	01	49 km N	1,257	41.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Bey	71	104 km N	870	47.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Myans	73	81 km SE	1,318	34.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

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