Bègues

Allier · CC Saint-Pourçain Sioule Limagne · INSEE 03021

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

Few services 21.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 61 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bègues (INSEE 03021) is in Allier (03), part of CC Saint-Pourçain Sioule Limagne. Population 232 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 21.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 61 % of the 16,846 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.7	10	7.02
Housing mix	0.67	5	3.34

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

1 × Library (MAIRIE DE BÈGUES). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	MAIRIE DE BÈGUES	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	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: 150 2023: 232 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 231 (2012) → 232 (2023): 0.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 193 (1990) → 232 (2023): 20.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 151, of which 16.6 % second homes and 7.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 2.8 km NWPrimary school — 2.9 km NWFood shop — 3.9 km SEGP — 4.1 km SEPharmacy — 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 (Saint-Bonnet-de-Rochefort): 2.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Gannat): 3.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Gannat): 4.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Gannat): 4.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Bonnet-de-Rochefort): 2.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 20.4

Days at or below 0 °C 56.3

Muggy days a summer 0.6

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 20 days a year at or above 30 °C and 56 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CHARMES_SAPC weather station, 9.2 km away at 330 m; the village itself is at 437 m. ^[10]

The village sits 107 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 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ECHASSIERES_SAPC, 16.9 km away at 650 m, over 13 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 213 m above 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 684 mm of rain a year, spread over 113 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at EBREUIL, 5.2 km away at 307 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 — 03021/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03021/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03021/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03021/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03220
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03118
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
Orçay	41	152 km NW	206	19.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 95 %
Thouars-sur-Garonne	47	304 km SW	228	21.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 26 % · winter 78 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Guiraud	34	273 km S	267	25.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 3 % · winter 65 % · humidity 64 %
Morley	55	315 km NE	204	20.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Savigny-sous-Mâlain	21	181 km NE	234	24.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Millemont	78	317 km N	272	24.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Orçay	41	152 km NW	206	19.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 95 %
Savigny-sous-Mâlain	21	181 km NE	234	24.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Guiraud	34	273 km S	267	25.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 3 % · winter 65 % · humidity 64 %
Thouars-sur-Garonne	47	304 km SW	228	21.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 26 % · winter 78 % · humidity 36 %
Morley	55	315 km NE	204	20.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Millemont	78	317 km N	272	24.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Bègues'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
Meunet-sur-Vatan	36	145 km NW	198	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Mélisey	89	211 km N	223	12.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Lestiou	41	215 km NW	291	25.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Chessenaz	74	212 km E	239	23.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Montigny-le-Guesdier	77	251 km N	295	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Faux-Villecerf	10	249 km N	215	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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