Velesmes-Essarts

Doubs · CU Grand Besançon Métropole · INSEE 25594

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

Few services 21/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 41 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Velesmes-Essarts (INSEE 25594) is in Doubs (25), part of CU Grand Besançon Métropole. Population 369 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 21/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 41 % of the 18,051 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	0.66	10	6.6
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.94

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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

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	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 163 2023: 369 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 324 (2012) → 369 (2023): 13.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 318 (1990) → 369 (2023): 16 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 168, of which 0.6 % second homes and 7.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

GP — 1.4 km NPrimary school — 1.7 km NBakery — 2.0 km NEFood shop — 2.1 km EPharmacy — 2.8 km E 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 (Grandfontaine): 2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Grandfontaine): 2.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Dannemarie-sur-Crète): 1.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Montferrand-le-Château): 2.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Dannemarie-sur-Crète): 1.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 19.3

Days at or below 0 °C 67

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 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 67 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the DANNEMARIE-SUR- weather station, 1.2 km away at 267 m; the village itself is at 277 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at BESANCON, 10.8 km away at 306 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,057 mm of rain a year, spread over 131 days — about 8.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at DANNEMARIE-SUR-, 1.2 km away at 267 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 — 25594/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25594/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25594/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 25594/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25287
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25195
INSEE BPE 2025 — 25397
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
Septfontaines	25	33 km SE	371	24.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 31 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-lès-Luxeuil	70	74 km NE	380	17.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Ferrières	54	155 km N	361	24.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Lageon	79	467 km W	378	20.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Maizet	14	515 km NW	360	23.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %
Lommerange	57	238 km N	380	23.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 85 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Septfontaines	25	33 km SE	371	24.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 31 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-lès-Luxeuil	70	74 km NE	380	17.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Ferrières	54	155 km N	361	24.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Lommerange	57	238 km N	380	23.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 85 %
Lageon	79	467 km W	378	20.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Maizet	14	515 km NW	360	23.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Velesmes-Essarts'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 Chapelle-lès-Luxeuil	70	74 km NE	380	17.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Vibersviller	57	208 km N	381	21.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Strueth	68	104 km NE	360	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Samoussy	02	310 km NW	384	18.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Ruederbach	68	113 km E	385	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Haussonville	54	153 km N	324	21	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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