La Celle

Allier · CC Commentry Montmarault Néris Communauté · INSEE 03047

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

No daily shops 17.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 26 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Celle (INSEE 03047) is in Allier (03), part of CC Commentry Montmarault Néris Communauté. Population 398 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/03047-la-celle

Vitality score

Vitality score 17.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 26 % of the 17,984 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	5	0
Population trend	0.48	10	4.83
Housing mix	0.74	5	3.71

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 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”.

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

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	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	1	INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	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: 507 2023: 398 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 422 (2012) → 398 (2023): -5.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 405 (1990) → 398 (2023): -1.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 271, of which 12.9 % second homes and 13.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 4.1 km NWPrimary school — 5.5 km SEBakery — 5.6 km SPharmacy — 5.6 km SGP — 7.6 km NW 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 (Montaigut-en-Combraille): 5.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Commentry): 4.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Commentry): 7.6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Montaigut-en-Combraille): 5.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Buxières-sous-Montaigut): 5.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18.5

Days at or below 0 °C 56.9

Muggy days a summer 0.5

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 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 57 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the DURDAT-LAREQUILLE weather station, 7.4 km away at 500 m; the village itself is at 489 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at ECHASSIERES_SAPC, 13.9 km away at 650 m, over 13 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 161 m above 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 874 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at DURDAT-LAREQUILLE, 7.4 km away at 500 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 — 03047/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03047/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03047/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03047/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63233
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03082
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63062
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
Savigny-le-Vieux	50	385 km NW	399	14	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 72 % · winter 76 %
Saint-Aubin-les-Forges	58	106 km N	376	17.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Avançon	05	326 km SE	415	23.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
La Neuville-aux-Joûtes	08	424 km N	354	17.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 89 %
Saint-Pierre-sur-Dropt	47	268 km SW	359	23.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 65 % · humidity 57 %
Ver	50	431 km NW	386	19.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Aubin-les-Forges	58	106 km N	376	17.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pierre-sur-Dropt	47	268 km SW	359	23.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 65 % · humidity 57 %
Avançon	05	326 km SE	415	23.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Savigny-le-Vieux	50	385 km NW	399	14	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 72 % · winter 76 %
La Neuville-aux-Joûtes	08	424 km N	354	17.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 89 %
Ver	50	431 km NW	386	19.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 70 % · 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 La Celle'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
Vievy-le-Rayé	41	213 km NW	470	10.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Fougerolles	36	80 km NW	349	28.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Fayet-le-Château	63	78 km SE	381	15.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-aux-Choux	72	249 km NW	283	16.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Bitry	58	142 km N	308	16.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Sommecaise	89	183 km N	388	23.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

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