Roulans

Doubs · CC du Doubs Baumois · INSEE 25508

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

Partly served 43.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 68 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Roulans (INSEE 25508) is in Doubs (25), part of CC du Doubs Baumois. Population 1,125 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/25508-roulans

Vitality score

Vitality score 43.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 68 % of the 13,644 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	0.39	25	9.84
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.59	10	5.85
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.68	10	6.76
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.79

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AU BLE MOULU). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (LESSERTEUR). ^[3]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (O ROULANAIS). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LA SYMBIOSE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Collège (COLLEGE AIGREMONT). ^[3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ERIC CARRE, MÉDECIN · CORALIE CELLERIER LE DISET, MÉDECIN · GISELE CARRE-SURANYI, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE ROULANS). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (ROULANS RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE ESPACE CULTUREL). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (GYMNASE DU COLLEGE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (BULLE D'HAIR). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Nursery school (maternelle).

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	AU BLE MOULU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	LESSERTEUR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	O ROULANAIS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	LA SYMBIOSE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE HENRI LAMARCHE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE AIGREMONT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	ERIC CARRE, MÉDECIN · CORALIE CELLERIER LE DISET, MÉDECIN · GISELE CARRE-SURANYI, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE ROULANS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	ROULANS RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE ESPACE CULTUREL	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	GYMNASE DU COLLEGE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1	BULLE D'HAIR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 504 peak 2012: 1,130 2023: 1,125 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,130 (2012) → 1,125 (2023): -0.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 957 (1990) → 1,125 (2023): 17.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 514, of which 2.1 % second homes and 5.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Roulans): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Roulans): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Roulans): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Roulans): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Roulans): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.3

Days at or below 0 °C 90.6

Muggy days a summer 1.3

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 91 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the POULIGNEY weather station, 3.2 km away at 286 m; the village itself is at 340 m. ^[9]

The village sits 54 m above 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. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at BESANCON, 19.9 km away at 306 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

An average of 1,221 mm of rain a year, spread over 146 days — about 8.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at POULIGNEY, 3.2 km away at 286 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25508/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25508/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25508/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25508/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25508
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
Saint-Parres-lès-Vaudes	10	178 km NW	1,084	51.8	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 57 % · humidity 86 %
Berd'huis	61	425 km W	1,097	45.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 82 % · winter 53 %
Arzens	11	555 km SW	1,174	48.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 7 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux	81	526 km SW	1,054	50.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 1 % · humidity 57 %
Labastide-d'Anjou	11	559 km SW	1,255	49	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 18 % · humidity 36 %
Orgères-en-Beauce	28	353 km W	1,007	46.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 42 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Parres-lès-Vaudes	10	178 km NW	1,084	51.8	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 57 % · humidity 86 %
Orgères-en-Beauce	28	353 km W	1,007	46.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 42 % · humidity 100 %
Berd'huis	61	425 km W	1,097	45.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 82 % · winter 53 %
Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux	81	526 km SW	1,054	50.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 1 % · humidity 57 %
Arzens	11	555 km SW	1,174	48.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 7 % · humidity 50 %
Labastide-d'Anjou	11	559 km SW	1,255	49	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 18 % · 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 Roulans'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
Val-de-Virieu	38	212 km S	1,528	47.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Victor-de-Cessieu	38	208 km S	2,148	53.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Chanac	48	388 km SW	1,404	43.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Montenois	25	38 km NE	1,362	48.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Polminhac	15	385 km SW	1,197	41.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
La Bâtie-Montgascon	38	201 km S	2,035	54.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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