Grilly

Ain · CA du Pays de Gex · INSEE 01180

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

Few services 35.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 54 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Grilly (INSEE 01180) is in Ain (01), part of CA du Pays de Gex. Population 889 (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/01180-grilly

Vitality score

Vitality score 35.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 54 % of the 15,031 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	0.81	20	16.14
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.9	10	9.02
Housing mix	0.64	5	3.22

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

4 × Restaurant (RESTAURANT DES BERGERS · C.G.S.G · LA TAVERNE DES ECURIES). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (L'ECHAPPEE BELLE). ^[4]

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

2 × Hairdresser (TIFFANYECO · O SALON). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Primary school (élémentaire).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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	4	RESTAURANT DES BERGERS · C.G.S.G · LA TAVERNE DES ECURIES	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	L'ECHAPPEE BELLE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	GRILLY AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	2	TIFFANYECO · O SALON	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 302 2023: 889 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 779 (2012) → 889 (2023): 14.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 634 (1990) → 889 (2023): 40.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 483, of which 17.8 % second homes and 8.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 1.7 km NEFood shop — 2.4 km NEBakery — 3.1 km WGP — 3.1 km NEPharmacy — 3.2 km NE 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 (Gex): 3.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Divonne-les-Bains): 2.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Divonne-les-Bains): 3.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Divonne-les-Bains): 3.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Divonne-les-Bains): 1.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.2

Days at or below 0 °C 96.8▸

Muggy days a summer 0.4

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 97 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the DIVONNE ZA weather station, 2.2 km away at 467 m; the village itself is at 511 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at CESSY, 3.5 km away at 507 m, over 23 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,123 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 9.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at DIVONNE ZA, 2.2 km away at 467 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 — 01180/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01180/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01180/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 01180/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01173
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01143
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
Saint-Pôtan	22	679 km NW	839	39.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Longevilles-Mont-d'Or	25	50 km N	625	36.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Caligny	61	574 km NW	845	28.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 41 % · humidity 93 %
Bréville-sur-Mer	50	640 km NW	791	37.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 38 % · winter 16 %
Pléboulle	22	683 km NW	721	25.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Nonette-Orsonnette	63	239 km W	625	38	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Longevilles-Mont-d'Or	25	50 km N	625	36.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Nonette-Orsonnette	63	239 km W	625	38	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Caligny	61	574 km NW	845	28.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 41 % · humidity 93 %
Bréville-sur-Mer	50	640 km NW	791	37.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 38 % · winter 16 %
Saint-Pôtan	22	679 km NW	839	39.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Pléboulle	22	683 km NW	721	25.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Grilly'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
Nances	73	86 km S	554	34.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Malvalette	43	187 km SW	887	15.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Cassin	73	90 km S	1,046	35.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Meisenthal	57	307 km N	635	26.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Simon	15	320 km SW	1,159	46	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Deluz	25	107 km N	630	36.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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