Bretonvillers

Doubs · CC du Pays de Sancey-Belleherbe · INSEE 25095

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

Few services 21.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 54 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bretonvillers (INSEE 25095) is in Doubs (25), part of CC du Pays de Sancey-Belleherbe. Population 280 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 21.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 54 % of the 17,687 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.69	10	6.86
Housing mix	0.64	5	3.22

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 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, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (BRETONVILLERS RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (MAIRIE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (LES CISEAUX DE MARINE). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (HOTEL RESTAURANT DE GIGOT). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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	EPICERIE BRETON	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)	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	BRETONVILLERS RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MAIRIE	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	1	LES CISEAUX DE MARINE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	HOTEL RESTAURANT DE GIGOT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 362 2023: 280 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 248 (2012) → 280 (2023): 12.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 236 (1990) → 280 (2023): 18.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 191, of which 17.8 % second homes and 13.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop Primary school — 3.1 km SGP — 4.7 km NPharmacy — 5.0 km NBakery — 5.1 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 (Belleherbe): 5.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

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

GP (Belleherbe): 4.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Belleherbe): 5 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Plaimbois-du-Miroir): 3.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 9

Days at or below 0 °C 117.1▸

Muggy days a summer 0.2

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 117 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the PIERREFONTAINE weather station, 8.2 km away at 695 m; the village itself is at 704 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at SANCEY-LE-GRAND, 10.1 km away at 490 m, over 20 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 214 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.06 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 1,383 mm of rain a year, spread over 153 days — about 9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at PIERREFONTAINE, 8.2 km away at 695 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25095/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25095/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25095/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25095/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25051
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25095
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25456
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
Fontgombault	36	433 km W	268	17.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Boissières	46	503 km SW	371	25.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 15 % · winter 0 % · humidity 43 %
Latrecey-Ormoy-sur-Aube	52	158 km NW	268	10.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jean-de-Barrou	11	560 km SW	272	20.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 8 % · winter 0 % · humidity 14 %
Bures-en-Bray	76	483 km NW	302	20.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Marigny-le-Cahouët	21	166 km W	305	14.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 23 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Latrecey-Ormoy-sur-Aube	52	158 km NW	268	10.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Marigny-le-Cahouët	21	166 km W	305	14.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 23 % · humidity 93 %
Fontgombault	36	433 km W	268	17.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Bures-en-Bray	76	483 km NW	302	20.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Boissières	46	503 km SW	371	25.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 15 % · winter 0 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Jean-de-Barrou	11	560 km SW	272	20.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 8 % · winter 0 % · humidity 14 %

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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 Bretonvillers'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
Villers-sous-Chalamont	25	57 km SW	293	28.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Charmoille	25	4.0 km NE	317	13.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Fournet-Blancheroche	25	15 km E	353	31.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Les Plains-et-Grands-Essarts	25	22 km NE	207	15	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Plaimbois-du-Miroir	25	3.1 km S	276	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Marie-du-Mont	38	209 km S	243	15.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

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