Sanssat

Allier · CC Entr'Allier Besbre et Loire · INSEE 03266

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

No daily shops 19.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 48 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sanssat (INSEE 03266) is in Allier (03), part of CC Entr'Allier Besbre et Loire. Population 276 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/03266-sanssat

Vitality score

Vitality score 19.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 48 % of the 17,623 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	0.46	10	4.62
Housing mix	0.88	5	4.4

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 1 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 ELEMENTAIRE). ^[3]

1 × Library (MAIRIE DE SANSSAT). ^[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. ^[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 ELEMENTAIRE	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	1	MAIRIE DE SANSSAT	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 328 2023: 276 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 260 (2012) → 276 (2023): 6.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 287 (1990) → 276 (2023): -3.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 150, of which 6 % second homes and 7.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 3.0 km EFood shop — 3.0 km EGP — 3.0 km EPharmacy — 6.3 km SW 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-Gérand-le-Puy): 3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Gérand-le-Puy): 3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Gérand-le-Puy): 3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Germain-des-Fossés): 6.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Sanssat): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 35.2

Days at or below 0 °C 72.6

Muggy days a summer 1.3

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 35 days a year at or above 30 °C and 73 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the BILLY weather station, 4.1 km away at 260 m; the village itself is at 271 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at VICHY-CHARMEIL, 11.5 km away at 249 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 782 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at BILLY, 4.1 km away at 260 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

What property sold for

25 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 106,000 € — 1,026 € per m² of built surface. ^[12]

The median across Allier is 924 € per m², so this commune sits above it. ^[12]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03266/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03266/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03266/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03266/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03235
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03236
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03266
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Carbay	49	392 km NW	277	23.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 41 % · winter 38 %
Lagarrigue	47	326 km SW	272	20.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 55 % · humidity 36 %
Reugny	03	70 km W	266	20.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Le Pailly	52	225 km NE	270	18.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Billième	73	190 km E	273	23.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
La Digne-d'Amont	11	372 km S	286	21.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 53 % · humidity 7 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Reugny	03	70 km W	266	20.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Billième	73	190 km E	273	23.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Le Pailly	52	225 km NE	270	18.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Lagarrigue	47	326 km SW	272	20.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 55 % · humidity 36 %
La Digne-d'Amont	11	372 km S	286	21.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 53 % · humidity 7 %
Carbay	49	392 km NW	277	23.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 41 % · winter 38 %

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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 Sanssat'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
Belmont	39	183 km NE	258	18.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Varennes-sur-Usson	63	82 km S	317	24.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Montboillon	70	224 km NE	308	19.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Chay	25	202 km NE	194	25.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Éclans-Nenon	39	189 km NE	371	14.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Fourg	25	201 km NE	370	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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