Villes

Identity

Villes (INSEE 01448) is in Ain (01), part of CC Terre Valserhône (CCTV). Population 381 (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/01448-villes

Vitality score

Vitality score 31.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 72 % of the 18,018 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.

Services

A school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE SULLY). ^[4]

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

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

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

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 362 (2012) → 381 (2023): 5.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 226 (1990) → 381 (2023): 68.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 196, of which 7.7 % second homes and 7.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Valserhône): 2.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Valserhône): 2.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Valserhône): 3.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Valserhône): 3.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Villes): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

An average of 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 104 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the BELLEGARDE weather station, 2.2 km away at 350 m; the village itself is at 550 m. ^[10]

The village sits 200 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 0 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at BELLEGARDE, 2.2 km away at 350 m, over 27 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 200 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 1,184 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 9.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BELLEGARDE, 2.2 km away at 350 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 — 01448/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01448/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01448/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01448/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 01033
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 01448
10. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024