Arbin

Savoie · CC Coeur de Savoie · INSEE 73018

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

Partly served 41.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 74 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Arbin (INSEE 73018) is in Savoie (73), part of CC Coeur de Savoie. Population 841 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). ^[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/73018-arbin

Vitality score

Vitality score 41.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 74 % of the 15,343 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.53	10	5.32
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.73

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 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 1 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (PMD). ^[4,3]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (A CASA DE PORTUGAL). ^[4,3]

2 × Restaurant (MAITE COOK EVENEMENTS · KRISTIB). ^[4,3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE LES CHAMPS ARBIN). ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser (NEW MEN). ^[4,3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Supermarket, 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	PMD	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	A CASA DE PORTUGAL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	2	MAITE COOK EVENEMENTS · KRISTIB	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [4,3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE LES CHAMPS ARBIN	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	1	NEW MEN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 322 2023: 841 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 797 (2012) → 841 (2023): 5.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 815 (1990) → 841 (2023): 3.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 406, of which 2.7 % second homes and 3.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 0.5 km SEGP — 0.7 km SWPharmacy — 0.8 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 (Montmélian): 0.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Arbin): 0.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Montmélian): 0.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Montmélian): 0.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Arbin): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 34.7

Days at or below 0 °C 60.7

Muggy days a summer 2.2

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 35 days a year at or above 30 °C and 61 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the MONTMELIAN weather station, 2.1 km away at 264 m; the village itself is at 285 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at MONTMELIAN, 2.1 km away at 264 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,116 mm of rain a year, spread over 113 days — about 9.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LA CHAVANNE, 1.6 km away at 318 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 — 73018/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73018/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73018/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73018/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73171
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73018
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
Ferrières-sur-Ariège	09	455 km SW	788	34.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 62 % · humidity 71 %
Zetting	57	405 km N	875	41.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Urschenheim	68	306 km N	808	30.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Marcq	78	492 km NW	802	32.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Vandoncourt	25	227 km N	788	38	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Cize	39	136 km N	797	24.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 31 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Cize	39	136 km N	797	24.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 31 % · humidity 86 %
Vandoncourt	25	227 km N	788	38	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Urschenheim	68	306 km N	808	30.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Zetting	57	405 km N	875	41.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Ferrières-sur-Ariège	09	455 km SW	788	34.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 62 % · humidity 71 %
Marcq	78	492 km NW	802	32.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 95 % · 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 Arbin'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
Laissaud	73	7.1 km S	778	52.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
La Chavanne	73	1.6 km SE	720	17.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Blaise-du-Buis	38	45 km W	1,062	28.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Villette-lès-Dole	39	177 km N	806	53.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Crissey	39	179 km N	687	24	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Bressolles	01	85 km NW	1,028	30.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

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