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Uzelle

Doubs · CC des Deux Vallées Vertes · INSEE 25574

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 10.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 18 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Uzelle (INSEE 25574) is in Doubs (25), part of CC des Deux Vallées Vertes. Population 194 (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/25574-uzelle

Vitality score

Vitality score 10.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 18 % of the 15,809 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.57105.66
Housing mix0.7253.61

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 172 2023: 194 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 163 (2012) → 194 (2023): 19 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 182 (1990) → 194 (2023): 6.6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 108, of which 13.9 % second homes and 9.3 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 3.7 km W (Cuse-et-Adrisans)Food shop — 3.8 km S (Gondenans-Montby)Bakery — 6.5 km W (Rougemont)GP — 6.7 km W (Rougemont)Pharmacy — 6.7 km W (Rougemont)
Primary school — 3.7 km WFood shop — 3.8 km SBakery — 6.5 km WGP — 6.7 km WPharmacy — 6.7 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 (Rougemont): 6.5 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Gondenans-Montby): 3.8 km to the south (straight line). [9]

GP (Rougemont): 6.7 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Rougemont): 6.7 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Cuse-et-Adrisans): 3.7 km to the west (straight line). [10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 76 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the BRANNE_SAPC weather station, 10.2 km away at 287 m; the village itself is at 390 m. [11]

The village sits 103 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. [11]

An average of 1,127 mm of rain a year, spread over 136 days — about 8.3 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at BRANNE_SAPC, 10.2 km away at 287 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25574/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25574/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25574/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25574/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 25505
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 25276
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 25184
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Villers-Hélon02308 km NW19311.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 65 %
Bossancourt10164 km NW1938No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 76 %
Crennes-sur-Fraubée53510 km W19210.3No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 69 % · winter 78 %
Diant77272 km W1949.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 100 % · winter 51 %
Cuverville-sur-Yères76462 km NW19311No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 69 % · winter 43 %
Billy-sur-Ourcq02303 km NW1949.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 68 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Bossancourt10164 km NW1938No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 76 %
Diant77272 km W1949.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 100 % · winter 51 %
Billy-sur-Ourcq02303 km NW1949.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 68 %
Villers-Hélon02308 km NW19311.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 65 %
Cuverville-sur-Yères76462 km NW19311No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 69 % · winter 43 %
Crennes-sur-Fraubée53510 km W19210.3No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 69 % · winter 78 %

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