Virignin

Ain · CC Bugey Sud · INSEE 01454

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

Few services 36.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 48 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Virignin (INSEE 01454) is in Ain (01), part of CC Bugey Sud. Population 1,144 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-25 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/01454-virignin

Vitality score

Vitality score 36.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 48 % of the 13,533 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.45

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 1 of 1

Culture 0 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) (LE CRAQUELIN). ^[3,4]

4 × Restaurant (LE BOUCHE A OREILLE · LA FINE FOURCHETTE · REPAS A DOMICILE · BUVETTE & BICYCLETTE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (VIRIGNIN RP). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (REBEL COIFFURE MIXTE · DES FLEURS DANS LES CHEVEUX). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (LES LODGES DE LA VIARHONA). ^[3]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LE CRAQUELIN	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	4	LE BOUCHE A OREILLE · LA FINE FOURCHETTE · REPAS A DOMICILE · BUVETTE & BICYCLETTE	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 7 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE GUY CARNAT	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	VIRIGNIN RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	REBEL COIFFURE MIXTE · DES FLEURS DANS LES CHEVEUX	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	1	LES LODGES DE LA VIARHONA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]

Market and village life

A market is recorded here, but no source gives the day. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 394 2023: 1,144 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 939 (2012) → 1,144 (2023): 21.8 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 550 (1990) → 1,144 (2023): 108 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 505, of which 5.5 % second homes and 5.5 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 0.5 km SGP — 3.7 km NWFood shop — 4.2 km NPharmacy — 4.2 km SE 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 (Virignin): 0.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Belley): 4.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Belley): 3.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Yenne): 4.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Virignin): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 35.4

Days at or below 0 °C 46.2

Muggy days a summer 3.2

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 35 days a year at or above 30 °C and 46 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the BELLEY weather station, 5.6 km away at 330 m; the village itself is at 228 m. ^[12]

The village sits 102 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at BELLEY, 5.6 km away at 330 m, over 23 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 102 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,135 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 10.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at BELLEY MAN, 4.3 km away at 286 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01454/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2023-03— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/837581fd-3e35-334d-b8e5-526b52e44ece— “Marché de Virignin”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01454/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01454/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01454/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01454
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01034
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73330
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
Villiers-Saint-Georges	77	369 km NW	1,160	33.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Neuvilly	59	518 km N	1,103	26.3	Few services	no figures
Gœrsdorf	67	391 km NE	1,039	29.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Sampans	39	158 km N	1,106	34.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Farschviller	57	386 km N	1,318	29.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Mazières-de-Touraine	37	444 km NW	1,488	31.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sampans	39	158 km N	1,106	34.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Villiers-Saint-Georges	77	369 km NW	1,160	33.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Farschviller	57	386 km N	1,318	29.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Gœrsdorf	67	391 km NE	1,039	29.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Mazières-de-Touraine	37	444 km NW	1,488	31.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Neuvilly	59	518 km N	1,103	26.3	Few services	no figures

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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 Virignin'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
Chantemerle-les-Blés	26	93 km SW	1,343	38.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Margès	26	83 km SW	1,067	36.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Jaillans	26	88 km SW	1,009	37.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Savigny-Lévescault	86	413 km W	1,240	29	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Assieu	38	74 km SW	1,726	38.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Marcel	01	62 km NW	1,340	28.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

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