Montécheroux

Doubs · CC du Pays de Maîche · INSEE 25393

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

Few services 35.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 71 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montécheroux (INSEE 25393) is in Doubs (25), part of CC du Pays de Maîche. Population 563 (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/25393-montecheroux

Vitality score

Vitality score 35.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 71 % of the 17,386 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	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.53	10	5.27
Housing mix	0.86	5	4.3

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LA POMME D'OR). ^[4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (MONTECHEROUX AP). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	LA POMME D'OR	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	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	1	MONTECHEROUX AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 550 peak 2012: 581 2023: 563 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 581 (2012) → 563 (2023): -3.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 548 (1990) → 563 (2023): 2.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 313, of which 7 % second homes and 8.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 3.3 km SPharmacy — 3.3 km SBakery — 3.6 km SFood shop — 3.6 km W 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 (Saint-Hippolyte): 3.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Villars-sous-Dampjoux): 3.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Hippolyte): 3.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Hippolyte): 3.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Montécheroux): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.3

Days at or below 0 °C 106▸

Muggy days a summer 0.1

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 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 106 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MAICHE weather station, 11.9 km away at 825 m; the village itself is at 656 m. ^[11]

The village sits 169 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 MAICHE, 11.9 km away at 825 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 169 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 1,333 mm of rain a year, spread over 144 days — about 9.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at DAMBELIN, 10 km away at 420 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 — 25393/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25393/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25393/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25393/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25519
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25617
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25393
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
Carantilly	50	626 km W	619	40.7	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
La Fontaine-Saint-Martin	72	509 km W	599	39.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Auterive	32	639 km SW	529	36.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 16 % · humidity 50 %
Chédigny	37	438 km W	566	40.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 9 % · humidity 86 %
Cramans	39	86 km SW	509	36.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 32 % · humidity 86 %
Macaye	64	777 km SW	593	37.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 62 % · winter 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Cramans	39	86 km SW	509	36.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 32 % · humidity 86 %
Chédigny	37	438 km W	566	40.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 9 % · humidity 86 %
La Fontaine-Saint-Martin	72	509 km W	599	39.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Carantilly	50	626 km W	619	40.7	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Auterive	32	639 km SW	529	36.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 16 % · humidity 50 %
Macaye	64	777 km SW	593	37.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 62 % · winter 0 %

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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 Montécheroux'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
Vovray-en-Bornes	74	152 km S	550	31.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Andelot-en-Montagne	39	86 km SW	574	42.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Arçon	25	55 km SW	961	41.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Vieu-d'Izenave	01	171 km SW	719	34.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Coren	15	381 km SW	445	38	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Mestes	19	402 km SW	341	36	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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