Châtelus

Allier · CA Vichy Communauté · INSEE 03068

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

No daily shops 14.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 51 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Châtelus (INSEE 03068) is in Allier (03), part of CA Vichy Communauté. Population 119 (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/03068-chatelus

Vitality score

Vitality score 14.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 51 % of the 12,100 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	0.35	10	3.5
Housing mix	0.52	5	2.58

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: 183 peak 1975: 194 2023: 119 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 123 (2012) → 119 (2023): -3.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 140 (1990) → 119 (2023): -15 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 95, of which 24.2 % second homes and 6.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 4.0 km SBakery — 5.2 km EFood shop — 5.2 km EPharmacy — 5.2 km EGP — 5.5 km E 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-Martin-d'Estréaux): 5.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Martin-d'Estréaux): 5.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Martin-d'Estréaux): 5.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Martin-d'Estréaux): 5.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Arfeuilles): 4 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.3

Days at or below 0 °C 59.5

Muggy days a summer 3

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 60 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ARFEUILLES weather station, 3.3 km away at 450 m; the village itself is at 364 m. ^[10]

The village sits 86 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ST-NICOLAS, 16.7 km away at 1,022 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 658 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 953 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ARFEUILLES, 3.3 km away at 450 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 — 03068/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03068/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03068/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03068/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 42257
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03006
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
Rézentières	15	128 km SW	114	14.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 36 % · humidity 79 %
Surin	86	259 km W	123	13.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Arcon	42	24 km SE	106	13.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Bazordan	65	415 km SW	111	13.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Chanceaux-près-Loches	37	239 km NW	109	13.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Philbert-sur-Orne	61	426 km NW	111	13.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Arcon	42	24 km SE	106	13.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Rézentières	15	128 km SW	114	14.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 36 % · humidity 79 %
Chanceaux-près-Loches	37	239 km NW	109	13.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Surin	86	259 km W	123	13.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Bazordan	65	415 km SW	111	13.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Philbert-sur-Orne	61	426 km NW	111	13.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Châtelus'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
Bazordan	65	415 km SW	111	13.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Martin-des-Lais	03	53 km N	122	13.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Puy-Malsignat	23	118 km W	140	12.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
La Serre-Bussière-Vieille	23	110 km W	120	9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Tardes	23	107 km W	119	6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Corvol-d'Embernard	58	125 km N	117	10.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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