Saint-Bonnet-lès-Allier

Puy-de-Dôme · CC Billom Communauté · INSEE 63325

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

Few services 26.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 56 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Bonnet-lès-Allier (INSEE 63325) is in Puy-de-Dôme (63), part of CC Billom Communauté. Population 409 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/63325-saint-bonnet-les-allier

Vitality score

Vitality score 26.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 56 % of the 17,978 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	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.62

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SAINT-BONNET-LÈS-ALLIER). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), 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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE GUILLAUME CIZERON	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SAINT-BONNET-LÈS-ALLIER	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: 92 peak 2012: 431 2023: 409 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 431 (2012) → 409 (2023): -5.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 214 (1990) → 409 (2023): 91.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 183, of which 3.8 % second homes and 4.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 1.6 km NWBakery — 2.2 km NEPharmacy — 2.2 km NEFood shop — 2.9 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 (Chauriat): 2.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Pérignat-sur-Allier): 2.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Mur-sur-Allier): 1.6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Chauriat): 2.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Bonnet-lès-Allier): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 23.6

Days at or below 0 °C 54.1

Muggy days a summer 1

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 54 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the CLERMONT-FD weather station, 9.5 km away at 331 m; the village itself is at 371 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at CLERMONT-FD, 9.5 km away at 331 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 556 mm of rain a year, spread over 87 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at CLERMONT-FD, 9.5 km away at 331 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 — 63325/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63325/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63325/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 63325/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63106
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63273
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63226
INSEE BPE 2025 — 63325
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
Yssac-la-Tourette	63	25 km NW	396	25.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Vétrigne	90	351 km NE	636	26.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Bondaroy	45	281 km N	411	13.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 89 %
Obermorschwihr	68	398 km NE	420	13.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Sailly-lez-Cambrai	59	495 km N	409	11.3	No daily shops	no figures
Eckartswiller	67	457 km NE	420	9.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Yssac-la-Tourette	63	25 km NW	396	25.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Bondaroy	45	281 km N	411	13.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 89 %
Vétrigne	90	351 km NE	636	26.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Obermorschwihr	68	398 km NE	420	13.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Eckartswiller	67	457 km NE	420	9.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Sailly-lez-Cambrai	59	495 km N	409	11.3	No daily shops	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 Saint-Bonnet-lès-Allier'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
Yssac-la-Tourette	63	25 km NW	396	25.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Chilly-le-Vignoble	39	201 km NE	598	19.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Arnaville	54	419 km NE	556	21.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Areines	41	282 km NW	572	19.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Wuenheim	68	383 km NE	768	10.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
La Falaise	78	372 km N	609	20.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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