Le Chalon

Drôme · CA Valence Romans Agglo · INSEE 26068

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

No daily shops 15.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 40 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Chalon (INSEE 26068) is in Drôme (26), part of CA Valence Romans Agglo. Population 200 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/26068-le-chalon

Vitality score

Vitality score 15.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 40 % of the 15,961 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	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.86	10	8.61
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.67

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

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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	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: 138 peak 2012: 216 2023: 200 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 216 (2012) → 200 (2023): -7.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 147 (1990) → 200 (2023): 36.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 92, of which 3.3 % second homes and 3.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 2.3 km NFood shop — 2.4 km NWPrimary school — 2.8 km SEGP — 7.6 km SWPharmacy — 7.6 km SW 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 (Crépol): 2.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Crépol): 2.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Peyrins): 7.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Peyrins): 7.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Michel-sur-Savasse): 2.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21.1

Days at or below 0 °C 48.7

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 49 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ST-CHRISTOPHE-L_SAPC weather station, 8.3 km away at 452 m; the village itself is at 411 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at MARSAZ, 12.6 km away at 213 m, over 24 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 198 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 982 mm of rain a year, spread over 108 days — about 9.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ST-CHRISTOPHE-L_SAPC, 8.3 km away at 452 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 — 26068/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26068/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26068/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26068/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 26107
INSEE BPE 2025 — 26231
INSEE BPE 2025 — 26319
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
Marimbault	33	431 km W	196	17.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %
Mont-de-Vougney	25	265 km NE	193	17.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 8 % · humidity 93 %
Ruan	45	407 km NW	200	10.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Bannières	81	315 km SW	210	17.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %
Denazé	53	549 km NW	194	14.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Lagarde-sur-le-Né	16	415 km W	189	12.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 78 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Mont-de-Vougney	25	265 km NE	193	17.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 8 % · humidity 93 %
Bannières	81	315 km SW	210	17.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %
Ruan	45	407 km NW	200	10.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Lagarde-sur-le-Né	16	415 km W	189	12.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 78 % · humidity 57 %
Marimbault	33	431 km W	196	17.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %
Denazé	53	549 km NW	194	14.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Le Chalon'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
Marigny-lès-Reullée	21	205 km N	211	14.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Villexanton	41	402 km NW	198	13.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Chézy	03	205 km NW	212	10	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Réclainville	28	436 km NW	203	16.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Montlay-en-Auxois	21	252 km N	199	16.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Radégonde	86	377 km NW	187	12.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %

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