Ayn

Savoie · CC du Lac d'Aiguebelette (CCLA) · INSEE 73027

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

Few services 23.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 48 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ayn (INSEE 73027) is in Savoie (73), part of CC du Lac d'Aiguebelette (CCLA). Population 392 (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/73027-ayn

Vitality score

Vitality score 23.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 48 % of the 18,029 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	0.86	10	8.61
Housing mix	0.71	5	3.55

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 (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DU VILLAGE D'AYN). ^[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 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	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	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DU VILLAGE D'AYN	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: 274 2023: 392 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 353 (2012) → 392 (2023): 11 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 288 (1990) → 392 (2023): 36.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 221, of which 14.5 % second homes and 9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 1.9 km WGP — 2.0 km NBakery — 2.6 km NPharmacy — 5.2 km S 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 (Novalaise): 2.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Rochefort): 1.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Novalaise): 2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (La Bridoire): 5.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Ayn): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21.2

Days at or below 0 °C 93.5

Muggy days a summer 0.5

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 94 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the NOVALAISE weather station, 3.6 km away at 460 m; the village itself is at 552 m. ^[12]

The village sits 92 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 6.06 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at LAC AIGUEBELETTE, 3.7 km away at 375 m, over 17 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 177 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,423 mm of rain a year, spread over 131 days — about 10.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at NOVALAISE, 3.6 km away at 460 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 — 73027/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73027/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73027/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73027/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73191
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73214
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73058
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73027
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
Biffontaine	88	304 km N	390	19.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Puygros	73	22 km E	406	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Cléry	73	43 km E	367	25.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Lardier-et-Valença	05	128 km S	391	25.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Conie-Molitard	28	433 km NW	387	21.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 41 % · humidity 100 %
Roussas	26	147 km SW	409	22.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 11 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Puygros	73	22 km E	406	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Cléry	73	43 km E	367	25.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Lardier-et-Valença	05	128 km S	391	25.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Roussas	26	147 km SW	409	22.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 11 % · humidity 86 %
Biffontaine	88	304 km N	390	19.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Conie-Molitard	28	433 km NW	387	21.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 41 % · 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 Ayn'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
La Bâtie-Vieille	05	118 km S	340	25.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Hennezel	88	278 km N	386	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Leffonds	52	271 km N	344	21.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Didier-de-Bizonnes	38	33 km W	341	24	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Laroquevieille	15	259 km W	350	24.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Gerbamont	88	281 km N	354	26.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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