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Chaux-lès-Passavant

Doubs · CC des Portes du Haut-Doubs · INSEE 25141

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 9.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 15 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chaux-lès-Passavant (INSEE 25141) is in Doubs (25), part of CC des Portes du Haut-Doubs. Population 124 (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/25141-chaux-les-passavant

Vitality score

Vitality score 9.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 15 % of the 12,501 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.41104.05
Housing mix0.7453.69

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 192 2023: 124 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 146 (2012) → 124 (2023): -15.1 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 137 (1990) → 124 (2023): -9.5 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 61, of which 13.1 % second homes and 9.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 4.0 km W (Gonsans)Primary school — 4.2 km NW (Aïssey)Food shop — 6.6 km SE (Vercel-Villedieu-le-Camp)GP — 6.6 km SE (Vercel-Villedieu-le-Camp)Pharmacy — 6.6 km SE (Vercel-Villedieu-le-Camp)
Bakery — 4.0 km WPrimary school — 4.2 km NWFood shop — 6.6 km SEGP — 6.6 km SEPharmacy — 6.6 km SE 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 (Gonsans): 4 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Vercel-Villedieu-le-Camp): 6.6 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Vercel-Villedieu-le-Camp): 6.6 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Vercel-Villedieu-le-Camp): 6.6 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Aïssey): 4.2 km to the north-west (straight line). [10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 77 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the ADAM-LES-VERCEL weather station, 7.9 km away at 665 m; the village itself is at 535 m. [11]

The village sits 130 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 0 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at EPENOY, 12.1 km away at 752 m, over 30 summers. [11]

That station sits 217 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 1,514 mm of rain a year, spread over 150 days — about 10.1 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at ADAM-LES-VERCEL, 7.9 km away at 665 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 — 25141/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25141/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25141/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25141/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 25278
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 25601
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 25009
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Courmont02296 km NW12612.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Montjustin-et-Velotte7042 km N12210.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Taillancourt55152 km N12613.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Beaufort-en-Argonne55265 km N1277No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Forges-sur-Meuse55239 km N1218.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Monampteuil02323 km NW12210.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Montjustin-et-Velotte7042 km N12210.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Taillancourt55152 km N12613.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Forges-sur-Meuse55239 km N1218.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Beaufort-en-Argonne55265 km N1277No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Courmont02296 km NW12612.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Monampteuil02323 km NW12210.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 76 % · 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 Chaux-lès-Passavant'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Courmont02296 km NW12612.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Montjustin-et-Velotte7042 km N12210.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Taillancourt55152 km N12613.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Les Fessey7066 km N12613.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Mercey-sur-Saône7058 km NW12711.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Bouhans-lès-Montbozon7028 km N12416.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %