Chavenon

Allier · CC Commentry Montmarault Néris Communauté · INSEE 03070

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

No daily shops 15.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 53 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chavenon (INSEE 03070) is in Allier (03), part of CC Commentry Montmarault Néris Communauté. Population 140 (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/03070-chavenon

Vitality score

Vitality score 15.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 53 % of the 13,571 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	0.4	10	4.03
Housing mix	0.64	5	3.2

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 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 304 2023: 140 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 129 (2012) → 140 (2023): 8.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 155 (1990) → 140 (2023): -9.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 89, of which 18 % second homes and 13.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 4.2 km SBakery — 6.1 km NGP — 6.2 km NPharmacy — 8.2 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 (Buxières-les-Mines): 6.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Chappes): 4.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Buxières-les-Mines): 6.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Le Montet): 8.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Chavenon): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.3

Days at or below 0 °C 49.2

Muggy days a summer 1

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 49 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the BUXIERES weather station, 6.2 km away at 375 m; the village itself is at 368 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at MONTMARAULT, 11 km away at 464 m, over 26 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 96 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 763 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at BUXIERES, 6.2 km away at 375 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03070/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03070/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03070/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03070/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03046
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03058
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03183
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03070
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
Baillolet	76	392 km N	116	15.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Villembits	65	406 km SW	109	14.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 62 % · humidity 64 %
Marcilly-la-Gueurce	71	104 km E	140	8.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 57 % · humidity 100 %
Tourtrès	47	289 km SW	140	10.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 88 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Benoît-des-Ombres	27	358 km NW	143	14.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Bazoques	27	355 km NW	141	11.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Marcilly-la-Gueurce	71	104 km E	140	8.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 57 % · humidity 100 %
Tourtrès	47	289 km SW	140	10.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 88 % · humidity 71 %
Bazoques	27	355 km NW	141	11.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Benoît-des-Ombres	27	358 km NW	143	14.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Baillolet	76	392 km N	116	15.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Villembits	65	406 km SW	109	14.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 62 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Chavenon'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
Lublé	37	239 km NW	141	11.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Coulours	89	201 km N	141	8.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Courbehaye	28	219 km NW	138	11.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Croisy	18	59 km N	143	13.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Les Châtelliers-Notre-Dame	28	252 km NW	148	12	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Bergères-sous-Montmirail	51	275 km N	137	10.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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