Bulle

Doubs · CC du Plateau de Frasne et du Val de Drugeon · INSEE 25100

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

Few services 26.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 49 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bulle (INSEE 25100) is in Doubs (25), part of CC du Plateau de Frasne et du Val de Drugeon. Population 505 (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/25100-bulle

Vitality score

Vitality score 26.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 49 % of the 17,772 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.79

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 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”.

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

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE RÉSEAU BULLE BIBLIOTHÈQUE DU RÉSEAU INTERCOMMUNAL). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), 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	1		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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE RÉSEAU BULLE BIBLIOTHÈQUE DU RÉSEAU INTERCOMMUNAL	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: 253 2023: 505 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 402 (2012) → 505 (2023): 25.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 320 (1990) → 505 (2023): 57.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 233, of which 2.1 % second homes and 6.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 1.4 km SEFood shop — 3.0 km SBakery — 6.4 km SWGP — 6.5 km SWPharmacy — 6.6 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 (Frasne): 6.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Rivière-Drugeon): 3 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Frasne): 6.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Frasne): 6.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Bannans): 1.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8.8

Days at or below 0 °C 106.2▸

Muggy days a summer 0

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 106 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the PONTARLIER weather station, 8.2 km away at 808 m; the village itself is at 826 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at PONTARLIER, 8.2 km away at 808 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,444 mm of rain a year, spread over 149 days — about 9.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at PONTARLIER, 8.2 km away at 808 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 — 25100/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25100/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25100/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25100/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25259
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25493
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25041
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
Baslieux	54	284 km N	528	21.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 38 % · humidity 93 %
Heining-lès-Bouzonville	57	270 km N	487	19.8	No daily shops	no figures
Cheveuges	08	324 km N	468	23.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jean-Lherm	31	506 km SW	443	26.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 33 % · winter 35 %
Nielles-lès-Ardres	62	536 km NW	577	26.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 15 % · humidity 93 %
Noaillac	33	551 km SW	552	26.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 16 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Heining-lès-Bouzonville	57	270 km N	487	19.8	No daily shops	no figures
Baslieux	54	284 km N	528	21.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 38 % · humidity 93 %
Cheveuges	08	324 km N	468	23.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jean-Lherm	31	506 km SW	443	26.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 33 % · winter 35 %
Nielles-lès-Ardres	62	536 km NW	577	26.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 15 % · humidity 93 %
Noaillac	33	551 km SW	552	26.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 16 % · humidity 43 %

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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 Bulle'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
Sainte-Colombe	25	3.8 km SE	488	19.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Ney	39	31 km SW	599	19.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Charmoille	25	52 km NE	317	13.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Les Bréseux	25	61 km NE	494	23.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Vuillecin	25	9.0 km NE	687	26.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jean-le-Vieux	38	189 km S	280	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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