Petite-Chaux

Doubs · CC des Lacs et Montagnes du Haut-Doubs · INSEE 25451

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

Few services 22.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 73 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Petite-Chaux (INSEE 25451) is in Doubs (25), part of CC des Lacs et Montagnes du Haut-Doubs. Population 177 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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 22.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 73 % of the 15,245 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	0.88	10	8.83
Housing mix	0.73	5	3.67

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 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: 114 2023: 177 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 147 (2012) → 177 (2023): 20.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 128 (1990) → 177 (2023): 38.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 90, of which 13.3 % second homes and 6.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.4 km NEFood shop — 2.7 km NEBakery — 2.8 km NEGP — 2.9 km NEPharmacy — 2.9 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 (Mouthe): 2.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Mouthe): 2.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Mouthe): 2.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Mouthe): 2.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Mouthe): 2.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 3.5▸

Days at or below 0 °C 147.8▸

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 4 days a year at or above 30 °C and 148 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the MOUTHE weather station, 3.8 km away at 940 m; the village itself is at 984 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at LA BOISSAUDE ROCHEJEAN, 12.7 km away at 1,222 m, over 18 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 238 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.06 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 1,688 mm of rain a year, spread over 151 days — about 11.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at MOUTHE, 3.8 km away at 940 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

What property sold for

8 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 258,000 € — 2,370 € per m² of built surface. ^[10]

5 flats sold over the same window, at a median of 127,000 € — 1,482 € per m². ^[10]

The median across Doubs is 1,815 € per m², so this commune sits above it. ^[10]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25451/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25451/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25451/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25451/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25413
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Puyrolland	17	526 km W	182	16.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Saury	15	372 km SW	183	15.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Suhescun	64	695 km SW	165	15.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 36 %
Chalus	63	266 km SW	177	18.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 9 % · humidity 100 %
Lalobbe	08	356 km N	166	14.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 82 % · winter 1 %
Margouët-Meymes	32	578 km SW	163	16.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 28 % · winter 0 % · humidity 29 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Chalus	63	266 km SW	177	18.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 9 % · humidity 100 %
Lalobbe	08	356 km N	166	14.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 82 % · winter 1 %
Saint-Saury	15	372 km SW	183	15.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Puyrolland	17	526 km W	182	16.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Margouët-Meymes	32	578 km SW	163	16.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 28 % · winter 0 % · humidity 29 %
Suhescun	64	695 km SW	165	15.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 36 %

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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 Petite-Chaux'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
La Bosse	25	62 km NE	91	15.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Grèzes	43	286 km SW	182	1.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Fontans	48	306 km SW	218	4.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Le Monestier	63	230 km SW	242	10.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Lastic	15	288 km SW	109	17.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Sarrageois	25	5.4 km NE	197	15.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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