Saint-Jean-de-Niost

Ain · CC de la Plaine de l'Ain · INSEE 01361

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

Few services 38.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 37 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Jean-de-Niost (INSEE 01361) is in Ain (01), part of CC de la Plaine de l'Ain. Population 1,866 (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/01361-saint-jean-de-niost

Vitality score

Vitality score 38.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 37 % of the 10,054 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.54

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 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) (MEURIAU). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (VIVAL). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE LOTBO). ^[3,4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (LAURENCE RAQUIN, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (ST JEAN DE NIOST RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE SAINT-JEAN-DE-NIOST). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (BERNARD VALERIE · CONCEPT COIFFURE BY JOY). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LA RIVIERE). ^[3]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	MEURIAU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	VIVAL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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	1	LE LOTBO	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	LAURENCE RAQUIN, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	ST JEAN DE NIOST RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE SAINT-JEAN-DE-NIOST	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	BERNARD VALERIE · CONCEPT COIFFURE BY JOY	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	1	CAMPING LA RIVIERE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 248 2023: 1,866 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,428 (2012) → 1,866 (2023): 30.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 810 (1990) → 1,866 (2023): 130.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 830, of which 4.6 % second homes and 5.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, GP Primary school — 0.5 km NPharmacy — 2.7 km SW 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-Jean-de-Niost): 0.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Jean-de-Niost): 0.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Jean-de-Niost): 0.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Maurice-de-Gourdans): 2.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Jean-de-Niost): 0.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 45.7▸

Days at or below 0 °C 67.3

Muggy days a summer 3.3

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 46 days a year at or above 30 °C and 67 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LOYETTES weather station, 4.1 km away at 198 m; the village itself is at 216 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at BALAN_AERO, 8.6 km away at 196 m, over 10 summers. ^[10]

An average of 990 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 8.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LOYETTES, 4.1 km away at 198 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 — 01361/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01361/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01361/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01361/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01361
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01378
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
Saze	30	215 km S	2,096	50.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 57 % · humidity 86 %
Malataverne	26	155 km S	2,258	44.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 43 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jean-de-Marsacq	40	568 km SW	1,840	45.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 43 % · humidity 0 %
Angliers	17	478 km W	1,447	45.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 49 % · humidity 71 %
Denée	49	477 km NW	1,449	37.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Benon	17	468 km W	1,859	39.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 36 % · winter 73 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Malataverne	26	155 km S	2,258	44.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 43 % · humidity 93 %
Saze	30	215 km S	2,096	50.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 57 % · humidity 86 %
Benon	17	468 km W	1,859	39.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 36 % · winter 73 %
Denée	49	477 km NW	1,449	37.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Angliers	17	478 km W	1,447	45.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 49 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Jean-de-Marsacq	40	568 km SW	1,840	45.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 43 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Saint-Jean-de-Niost'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
Thil	01	16 km W	1,261	40.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Maurice-de-Gourdans	01	2.8 km SW	2,903	57.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Agnin	38	62 km SW	1,245	32.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Vernègues	13	240 km S	2,166	54.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Bougé-Chambalud	38	62 km SW	1,467	47.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Niévroz	01	12 km W	1,662	32.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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