Chalèze

Identity

Chalèze (INSEE 25111) is in Doubs (25), part of CU Grand Besançon Métropole. Population 366 (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/25111-chaleze

Vitality score

Vitality score 18.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 32 % of the 18,035 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.

Services

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

1 × Café / bar (LE WHITE). ^[4]

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, Library. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 356 (2012) → 366 (2023): 2.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 379 (1990) → 366 (2023): -3.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 196, of which 2.6 % second homes and 10.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Thise): 1.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Roche-lez-Beaupré): 0.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Roche-lez-Beaupré): 1.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Roche-lez-Beaupré): 1.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Chalezeule): 1.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

An average of 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 82 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SAONE weather station, 7.3 km away at 397 m; the village itself is at 248 m. ^[11]

The village sits 149 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.55 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at BESANCON, 7.9 km away at 306 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 58 m above 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 1,305 mm of rain a year, spread over 143 days — about 9.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SAONE, 7.3 km away at 397 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25111/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25111/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25111/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25111/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 25560
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 25495
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 25112
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024