Viplaix

Allier · CC du Pays d'Huriel · INSEE 03317

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink.

Few services 24.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 64 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Viplaix (INSEE 03317) is in Allier (03), part of CC du Pays d'Huriel. Population 293 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 24.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 64 % of the 17,750 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.34	10	3.42
Housing mix	0.59	5	2.95

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 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 food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[3,4]

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

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

1 × Library (MAIRIE DE VIPLAIX). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[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)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	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	1	VIPLAIX AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MAIRIE DE VIPLAIX	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: 606 2023: 293 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 289 (2012) → 293 (2023): 1.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 348 (1990) → 293 (2023): -15.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 303, of which 20.5 % second homes and 28.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 3.7 km SEBakery — 5.8 km NEPharmacy — 9.9 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 (Saint-Désiré): 5.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Viplaix): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Chambérat): 3.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Culan): 9.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Viplaix): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 13.2

Days at or below 0 °C 56.8

Muggy days a summer 0.9

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 57 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ARCHIGNAT weather station, 12.1 km away at 374 m; the village itself is at 343 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at ARCHIGNAT, 12.1 km away at 374 m, over 19 summers. ^[12]

An average of 799 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ARCHIGNAT, 12.1 km away at 374 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 — 03317/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03317/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03317/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 03317/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03225
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03317
INSEE BPE 2025 — 03051
INSEE BPE 2025 — 18083
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
Villedieu-le-Château	41	192 km NW	381	24.7	Few services	no figures
Saint-Hilaire-le-Château	23	65 km SW	224	23.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Le Vilhain	03	34 km E	266	20.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 73 %
La Berthenoux	36	33 km NW	361	18.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Nolay	58	103 km NE	353	20.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Vicq	03	65 km SE	291	16.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Berthenoux	36	33 km NW	361	18.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Le Vilhain	03	34 km E	266	20.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 73 %
Saint-Hilaire-le-Château	23	65 km SW	224	23.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Vicq	03	65 km SE	291	16.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Nolay	58	103 km NE	353	20.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Villedieu-le-Château	41	192 km NW	381	24.7	Few services	no figures

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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 Viplaix'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
Target	03	56 km E	244	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Champsanglard	23	43 km SW	253	15.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Sainpuits	89	135 km NE	280	21	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Souternon	42	140 km SE	293	17.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Beaubery	71	155 km E	366	31.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Méard	87	109 km SW	366	19.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %

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