Fontain

Doubs · CU Grand Besançon Métropole · INSEE 25245

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

Few services 27.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 19 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Fontain (INSEE 25245) is in Doubs (25), part of CU Grand Besançon Métropole. Population 1,207 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2019-01-01 from 1 former commune: Arguel (25027). ^[3]

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/25245-fontain

Vitality score

Vitality score 27.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 19 % of the 13,170 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.76	10	7.56
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.86

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. ^[4,5]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[4,5]

1 × Restaurant. ^[4,5]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE CLAUDE LORIUS). ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [4,5]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE CLAUDE LORIUS	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [5]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 434 peak 2017: 1,301 2023: 1,207 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,237 (2012) → 1,207 (2023): -2.4 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 961 (1990) → 1,207 (2023): 25.6 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 567, of which 1.4 % second homes and 5.5 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 1.6 km NWGP — 2.0 km NWPharmacy — 2.0 km NWFood shop — 2.7 km NW 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 (Beure): 1.6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Besançon): 2.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Beure): 2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Beure): 2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Fontain): 0.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18.5

Days at or below 0 °C 96.5▸

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 97 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the SAONE weather station, 5.2 km away at 397 m; the village itself is at 440 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at BESANCON, 6 km away at 306 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 134 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.06 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,305 mm of rain a year, spread over 143 days — about 9.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at SAONE, 5.2 km away at 397 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25245/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25245/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25245/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25245/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25058
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25056
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25245
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
Bernwiller	68	102 km NE	1,205	36.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 57 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Vigor-d'Ymonville	76	490 km NW	1,153	32.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 16 % · humidity 100 %
Gauciel	27	409 km NW	1,117	30.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 28 % · humidity 100 %
Chevru	77	271 km NW	1,012	33	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 30 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Laurent-d'Arce	33	555 km SW	1,580	32.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 5 % · humidity 57 %
Dirac	16	477 km W	1,516	29.7	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 31 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bernwiller	68	102 km NE	1,205	36.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 57 % · humidity 93 %
Chevru	77	271 km NW	1,012	33	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 30 % · humidity 100 %
Gauciel	27	409 km NW	1,117	30.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 28 % · humidity 100 %
Dirac	16	477 km W	1,516	29.7	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 31 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Vigor-d'Ymonville	76	490 km NW	1,153	32.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 16 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Laurent-d'Arce	33	555 km SW	1,580	32.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 5 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Fontain'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
Groissiat	01	113 km S	1,205	34.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Montrodat	48	361 km SW	1,174	25.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Le Passage	38	190 km S	983	34.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Torchefelon	38	193 km S	838	32.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Blandine	38	189 km S	1,039	20.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Cassin	73	185 km S	1,046	35.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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