Verneuil-en-Bourbonnais

Allier · CC Saint-Pourçain Sioule Limagne · INSEE 03307

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

No daily shops 15.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 35 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Verneuil-en-Bourbonnais (INSEE 03307) is in Allier (03), part of CC Saint-Pourçain Sioule Limagne. Population 239 (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/03307-verneuil-en-bourbonnais

Vitality score

Vitality score 15.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 35 % of the 17,009 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	0.35	10	3.54
Housing mix	0.72	5	3.59

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 1 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 PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (INSTALLATIONS POUR LA PRATIQUE DU TIR A L ARC). ^[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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	INSTALLATIONS POUR LA PRATIQUE DU TIR A L ARC	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 329 2023: 239 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 249 (2012) → 239 (2023): -4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 280 (1990) → 239 (2023): -14.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 156, of which 14.1 % second homes and 8.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 4.4 km SEFood shop — 4.6 km SEPharmacy — 4.6 km SEBakery — 4.9 km SE 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-Pourçain-sur-Sioule): 4.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule): 4.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule): 4.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule): 4.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Verneuil-en-Bourbonnais): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 24.1

Days at or below 0 °C 50.6

Muggy days a summer 2.9

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 24 days a year at or above 30 °C and 51 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CONTIGNY weather station, 3.2 km away at 303 m; the village itself is at 273 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at FERTE-HAUTERIVE, 6.9 km away at 226 m, over 17 summers. ^[10]

An average of 722 mm of rain a year, spread over 111 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CONTIGNY, 3.2 km away at 303 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 — 03307/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03307/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03307/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03307/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03254
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03307
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
Verthemex	73	212 km E	244	23.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 28 % · humidity 86 %
Couret	31	414 km SW	233	18.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Savignargues	30	273 km S	238	23.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Eugène	02	298 km N	232	20.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Maillères	40	388 km SW	230	21.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 86 % · humidity 50 %
Beuzeville-la-Guérard	76	423 km NW	237	23.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Verthemex	73	212 km E	244	23.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 28 % · humidity 86 %
Savignargues	30	273 km S	238	23.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Eugène	02	298 km N	232	20.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Maillères	40	388 km SW	230	21.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 86 % · humidity 50 %
Couret	31	414 km SW	233	18.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Beuzeville-la-Guérard	76	423 km NW	237	23.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 93 % · 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 Verneuil-en-Bourbonnais'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
Cheney	89	182 km N	235	17.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Lombard	39	179 km E	220	23.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Loubens	09	391 km S	267	22.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Orcenais	18	76 km NW	239	17.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Nuret-le-Ferron	36	144 km W	294	16.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Chenou	77	207 km N	291	18.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %

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