Charmes

Allier · CC Saint-Pourçain Sioule Limagne · INSEE 03061

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

No daily shops 19.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 37 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Charmes (INSEE 03061) is in Allier (03), part of CC Saint-Pourçain Sioule Limagne. Population 369 (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 19.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 37 % of the 18,051 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	0.63	10	6.25
Housing mix	0.87	5	4.34

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 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 (LES CHARMES DU BURGER). ^[3,4]

1 × Hairdresser (COIFFURE DE CHARMES). ^[3,4]

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, 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	1	LES CHARMES DU BURGER	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	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	1	COIFFURE DE CHARMES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 315 peak 2017: 398 2023: 369 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 392 (2012) → 369 (2023): -5.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 328 (1990) → 369 (2023): 12.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 197, of which 6.6 % second homes and 8.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 1.6 km EFood shop — 3.8 km SBakery — 4.1 km WPharmacy — 4.3 km WGP — 4.4 km W 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 (Gannat): 4.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Effiat): 3.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Gannat): 4.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Gannat): 4.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Biozat): 1.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 24.3

Days at or below 0 °C 49

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 24 days a year at or above 30 °C and 49 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CHARMES_SAPC weather station, 2.1 km away at 330 m; the village itself is at 362 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at VICHY-CHARMEIL, 15.1 km away at 249 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 113 m below 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 676 mm of rain a year, spread over 105 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CHARMES_SAPC, 2.1 km away at 330 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 — 03061/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03061/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03061/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03061/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03118
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63143
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03030
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
Mosles	14	471 km NW	368	26	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Pargny-et-Filain	02	377 km N	367	24.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Camprond	50	481 km NW	374	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Morvillers-Saint-Saturnin	80	426 km N	372	17.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Vincent-Froideville	39	189 km NE	381	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Huberville	50	518 km NW	361	28.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Vincent-Froideville	39	189 km NE	381	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Pargny-et-Filain	02	377 km N	367	24.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Morvillers-Saint-Saturnin	80	426 km N	372	17.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Mosles	14	471 km NW	368	26	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Camprond	50	481 km NW	374	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Huberville	50	518 km NW	361	28.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Charmes'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
Vincent-Froideville	39	189 km NE	381	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Vanzy	74	204 km E	351	24	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Hauterive	89	207 km N	390	22.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Huisseau-en-Beauce	41	250 km NW	406	22	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Gemme	79	286 km W	407	22	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Merrey-sur-Arce	10	241 km N	325	20.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

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