Châtelblanc

Doubs · CC des Lacs et Montagnes du Haut-Doubs · INSEE 25131

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

No daily shops 16.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 65 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Châtelblanc (INSEE 25131) is in Doubs (25), part of CC des Lacs et Montagnes du Haut-Doubs. Population 117 (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 16.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 65 % of the 11,932 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	5	0
Population trend	0.63	10	6.25
Housing mix	0.34	5	1.7

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 0 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]

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]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	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	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	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 131 2023: 117 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 116 (2012) → 117 (2023): 0.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 104 (1990) → 117 (2023): 12.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 100, of which 33 % second homes and 10 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 1.5 km EFood shop — 3.4 km SWGP — 3.4 km SWBakery — 3.7 km SWPharmacy — 7.3 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 (Foncine-le-Haut): 3.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Foncine-le-Haut): 3.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Foncine-le-Haut): 3.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Mouthe): 7.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Chaux-Neuve): 1.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 2.7▸

Days at or below 0 °C 157.6▸

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 3 days a year at or above 30 °C and 158 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MOUTHE weather station, 8.2 km away at 940 m; the village itself is at 1,016 m. ^[11]

The village sits 76 m above 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 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at LA BOISSAUDE ROCHEJEAN, 17 km away at 1,222 m, over 18 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 206 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 1,688 mm of rain a year, spread over 151 days — about 11.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MOUTHE, 8.2 km away at 940 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 — 25131/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25131/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25131/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25131/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 39228
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25413
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25142
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
Sorio	2B	519 km SE	118	15	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 26 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Vernois-sur-Mance	70	133 km N	134	12.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Unac	09	554 km SW	127	15.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 23 % · winter 22 % · humidity 100 %
Besse	15	340 km SW	136	14.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 0 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-sous-Brancion	71	101 km W	145	14.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
Curtil-sous-Burnand	71	113 km W	137	15.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Chapelle-sous-Brancion	71	101 km W	145	14.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
Curtil-sous-Burnand	71	113 km W	137	15.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Vernois-sur-Mance	70	133 km N	134	12.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Besse	15	340 km SW	136	14.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 0 % · humidity 100 %
Sorio	2B	519 km SE	118	15	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 26 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Unac	09	554 km SW	127	15.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 23 % · winter 22 % · 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 Châtelblanc'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
Les Pontets	25	6.8 km NE	141	15.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Sarrageois	25	9.7 km NE	197	15.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Les Villedieu	25	12 km NE	233	21	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Medeyrolles	63	227 km SW	113	16.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Petite-Chaux	25	4.4 km NE	177	22.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Denis-en-Margeride	48	298 km SW	148	15.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

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