Isserpent

Allier · CC du Pays de Lapalisse · INSEE 03131

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

Few services 20.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 25 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Isserpent (INSEE 03131) is in Allier (03), part of CC du Pays de Lapalisse. Population 560 (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/03131-isserpent

Vitality score

Vitality score 20.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 25 % of the 17,448 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.6	10	5.96
Housing mix	0.77	5	3.86

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 1 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”.

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

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (ISSERPENT AP). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (COIFFURE A DOMICILE STEPHANIE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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]
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 SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	ISSERPENT AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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 A DOMICILE STEPHANIE	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: 677 2023: 560 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 511 (2012) → 560 (2023): 9.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 511 (1990) → 560 (2023): 9.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 315, of which 11.4 % second homes and 12.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 6.1 km NWBakery — 7.0 km SWGP — 7.8 km SEPharmacy — 9.7 km N 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 (Molles): 7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Billezois): 6.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Châtel-Montagne): 7.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Lapalisse): 9.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Isserpent): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18.6

Days at or below 0 °C 47.9

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 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 48 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the CHATEL-MONTAGNE weather station, 7.8 km away at 517 m; the village itself is at 385 m. ^[13]

The village sits 132 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. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at VICHY-CHARMEIL, 16.1 km away at 249 m, over 30 summers. ^[13]

That station sits 136 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[13]

An average of 1,009 mm of rain a year, spread over 136 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at CHATEL-MONTAGNE, 7.8 km away at 517 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03131/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03131/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03131/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03131/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03174
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03028
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03066
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03138
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03131
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
Saint-Martin-des-Bois	41	273 km NW	582	19.4	No daily shops	no figures
Saulgond	16	219 km W	530	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Chanteix	19	180 km SW	596	21.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Denis-le-Gast	50	482 km NW	530	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
La Tour-Saint-Gelin	37	264 km NW	501	18.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Assé-le-Riboul	72	349 km NW	479	21.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 91 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Chanteix	19	180 km SW	596	21.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Saulgond	16	219 km W	530	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
La Tour-Saint-Gelin	37	264 km NW	501	18.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Martin-des-Bois	41	273 km NW	582	19.4	No daily shops	no figures
Assé-le-Riboul	72	349 km NW	479	21.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 91 %
Saint-Denis-le-Gast	50	482 km NW	530	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 62 % · 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 Isserpent'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
Saulgond	16	219 km W	530	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
La Tour-Saint-Gelin	37	264 km NW	501	18.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Thevet-Saint-Julien	36	129 km NW	396	17	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Cussay	37	236 km NW	571	25.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Morogues	18	143 km NW	424	18.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Léger-du-Bois	71	114 km NE	505	28.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

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