Archignat

Allier · CC du Pays d'Huriel · INSEE 03005

A school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink.

No daily shops 19.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 39 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Archignat (INSEE 03005) is in Allier (03), part of CC du Pays d'Huriel. Population 321 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 19.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 39 % of the 17,933 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	25	0
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.67	10	6.67
Housing mix	0.66	5	3.29

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE DU PARC	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 345 peak 2012: 351 2023: 321 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 351 (2012) → 321 (2023): -8.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 275 (1990) → 321 (2023): 16.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 211, of which 17.1 % second homes and 14.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.3 km EBakery — 4.0 km EGP — 4.2 km EPharmacy — 8.3 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 (Huriel): 4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Huriel): 3.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Huriel): 4.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (La Chapelaude): 8.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Archignat): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 13.2

Days at or below 0 °C 56.8

Muggy days a summer 0.9

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 57 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ARCHIGNAT weather station, 1.5 km away at 374 m; the village itself is at 367 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ARCHIGNAT, 1.5 km away at 374 m, over 19 summers. ^[11]

An average of 799 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ARCHIGNAT, 1.5 km away at 374 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 — 03005/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03005/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03005/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03005/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03128
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03055
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03005
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
Lys	64	422 km SW	322	15.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 85 % · humidity 21 %
Villeneuve-les-Genêts	89	160 km N	312	21.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Le Ham	53	307 km NW	338	14.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Meillard	03	62 km E	303	18.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Pardaillan	47	253 km SW	334	17.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 65 % · humidity 57 %
Ganties	31	389 km S	302	19.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 100 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Meillard	03	62 km E	303	18.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Villeneuve-les-Genêts	89	160 km N	312	21.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Pardaillan	47	253 km SW	334	17.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 65 % · humidity 57 %
Le Ham	53	307 km NW	338	14.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Ganties	31	389 km S	302	19.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 100 % · humidity 64 %
Lys	64	422 km SW	322	15.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 85 % · humidity 21 %

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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 Archignat'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
Villeneuve-les-Genêts	89	160 km N	312	21.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Mary	71	161 km E	281	20.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Quentin-la-Chabanne	23	60 km S	362	14.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Bona	58	108 km NE	296	15.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Viel-Saint-Remy	08	394 km N	302	20.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Annay	58	135 km N	343	19.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

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