Lavault-Sainte-Anne

Allier · CA Montluçon Communauté · INSEE 03140

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

No daily shops 16.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 1 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lavault-Sainte-Anne (INSEE 03140) is in Allier (03), part of CA Montluçon Communauté. Population 1,139 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[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 16.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 1 % of the 13,561 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	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.51	10	5.07
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.8

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE 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	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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 570 peak 2007: 1,184 2023: 1,139 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,129 (2012) → 1,139 (2023): 0.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,131 (1990) → 1,139 (2023): 0.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 563, of which 2 % second homes and 10.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 0.7 km NFood shop — 2.0 km NGP — 2.0 km NPharmacy — 2.0 km NBakery — 2.2 km NE 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 (Montluçon): 2.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Montluçon): 2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Montluçon): 2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Montluçon): 2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Lavault-Sainte-Anne): 0.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.5

Days at or below 0 °C 65.7

Muggy days a summer 1.2

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 28 days a year at or above 30 °C and 66 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the MONTLUCON weather station, 5.4 km away at 229 m; the village itself is at 225 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at MONTLUCON, 5.4 km away at 229 m, over 23 summers. ^[10]

An average of 639 mm of rain a year, spread over 105 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at MONTLUCON, 5.4 km away at 229 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 — 03140/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03140/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03140/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03140/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03185
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03140
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
Aviron	27	325 km N	1,096	15.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Eustache-la-Forêt	76	395 km NW	1,194	15.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 41 % · winter 58 %
Nesles-la-Montagne	02	308 km N	1,189	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Buschwiller	68	398 km E	1,047	20.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Rouvres	77	306 km N	1,038	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Lozinghem	62	468 km N	1,256	18.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Rouvres	77	306 km N	1,038	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Nesles-la-Montagne	02	308 km N	1,189	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Aviron	27	325 km N	1,096	15.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Eustache-la-Forêt	76	395 km NW	1,194	15.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 41 % · winter 58 %
Buschwiller	68	398 km E	1,047	20.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Lozinghem	62	468 km N	1,256	18.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · 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 Lavault-Sainte-Anne'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
Pallud	73	301 km E	784	22.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Venon	38	279 km SE	841	32.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Algolsheim	68	420 km NE	1,112	30.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Creuzier-le-Neuf	03	67 km E	1,225	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Veauchette	42	153 km SE	1,235	34.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Paul-en-Cornillon	42	163 km SE	1,352	30.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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