Les Écorces

Doubs · CC du Pays de Maîche · INSEE 25213

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Few services 38.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 68 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Les Écorces (INSEE 25213) is in Doubs (25), part of CC du Pays de Maîche. Population 777 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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 38.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 68 % of the 15,828 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.84

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE DE LA GARE). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[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)	1	BOUCHERIE DE LA GARE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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 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: 346 2023: 777 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 682 (2012) → 777 (2023): 13.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 452 (1990) → 777 (2023): 71.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 321, of which 1.6 % second homes and 4.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 0.7 km SWGP — 1.2 km EBakery — 2.0 km EPharmacy — 2.1 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 (Charquemont): 2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Les Écorces): 0.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Charquemont): 1.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Charquemont): 2.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Les Écorces): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 7.7

Days at or below 0 °C 122.4▸

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 8 days a year at or above 30 °C and 122 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CHARQUEMONT weather station, 1.2 km away at 884 m; the village itself is at 901 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at MAICHE, 2.7 km away at 825 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 76 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.06 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 1,570 mm of rain a year, spread over 161 days — about 9.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CHARQUEMONT, 1.2 km away at 884 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25213/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25213/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25213/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25213/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25127
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25213
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
Soppe-le-Bas	68	60 km N	774	32.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 19 % · humidity 86 %
Soultzbach-les-Bains	68	96 km N	731	34.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 22 % · humidity 100 %
Dalou	09	617 km SW	775	32.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 0 % · humidity 43 %
Corpe	85	612 km W	1,024	29.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 72 % · winter 0 %
Précy-sur-Marne	77	354 km NW	747	32.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Elsenheim	67	117 km NE	803	29.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 18 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Soppe-le-Bas	68	60 km N	774	32.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 19 % · humidity 86 %
Soultzbach-les-Bains	68	96 km N	731	34.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 22 % · humidity 100 %
Elsenheim	67	117 km NE	803	29.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 18 % · humidity 86 %
Précy-sur-Marne	77	354 km NW	747	32.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Corpe	85	612 km W	1,024	29.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 72 % · winter 0 %
Dalou	09	617 km SW	775	32.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 0 % · 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 Les Écorces'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
Équevillon	39	83 km SW	561	26.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Loray	25	24 km W	623	34.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Les Fontenelles	25	5.0 km SW	537	21.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Chapelle-d'Huin	25	58 km SW	549	24.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Sirod	39	82 km SW	543	35.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Engins	38	244 km S	422	28.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

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