Saint-Marcel

Ain · CC de la Dombes · INSEE 01371

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

Few services 28.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 17 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Marcel (INSEE 01371) is in Ain (01), part of CC de la Dombes. Population 1,340 (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/01371-saint-marcel

Vitality score

Vitality score 28.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 17 % of the 12,437 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	20	0
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.82

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LES DELICES DE SIMONETTE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINT MARCEL EN DOMBES RP). ^[3]

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

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

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LES DELICES DE SIMONETTE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	SAINT MARCEL EN DOMBES RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE 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	LAURA 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: 200 2023: 1,340 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,197 (2012) → 1,340 (2023): 11.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 786 (1990) → 1,340 (2023): 70.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 568, of which 1.8 % second homes and 2.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 2.7 km SWGP — 3.3 km SWPharmacy — 6.7 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): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-André-de-Corcy): 2.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-André-de-Corcy): 3.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Villars-les-Dombes): 6.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Marcel): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 30.5

Days at or below 0 °C 54.3

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 31 days a year at or above 30 °C and 54 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MARLIEUX weather station, 11 km away at 277 m; the village itself is at 292 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at BALAN_AERO, 15.9 km away at 196 m, over 10 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 96 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 913 mm of rain a year, spread over 115 days — about 7.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MONTLUEL, 5.2 km away at 275 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01371/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01371/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01371/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01371/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01371
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01333
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01443
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
Montigné-le-Brillant	53	496 km NW	1,366	31.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Commer	53	495 km NW	1,286	25.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 46 % · winter 95 %
Bligny-lès-Beaune	21	116 km N	1,288	26.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Pexiora	11	378 km SW	1,266	28.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 50 % · humidity 43 %
Souligné-sous-Ballon	72	434 km NW	1,244	26.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 95 %
Nuillé-sur-Vicoin	53	493 km NW	1,247	27.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bligny-lès-Beaune	21	116 km N	1,288	26.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Pexiora	11	378 km SW	1,266	28.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 50 % · humidity 43 %
Souligné-sous-Ballon	72	434 km NW	1,244	26.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 95 %
Nuillé-sur-Vicoin	53	493 km NW	1,247	27.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Commer	53	495 km NW	1,286	25.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 46 % · winter 95 %
Montigné-le-Brillant	53	496 km NW	1,366	31.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %

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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-Marcel'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
Barbières	26	111 km S	1,143	32.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Sassenay	71	98 km N	1,612	32.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Chamblet	03	181 km W	1,074	27.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Savigny-Lévescault	86	353 km W	1,240	29	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Pouilly-lès-Feurs	42	61 km W	1,231	38.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Forgeux	69	41 km W	1,544	31.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

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