Biol

Isère · CC Les Vals du Dauphiné · INSEE 38044

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

Partly served 47.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 69 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Biol (INSEE 38044) is in Isère (38), part of CC Les Vals du Dauphiné. Population 1,594 (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 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/38044-biol

Vitality score

Vitality score 47.2/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 69 % of the 11,185 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	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.61

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 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) (BIOL'ALPAIN). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (MAISON BOUVARD). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Restaurant (BAR RESTAURANT DES HALLES BIOLOISE). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE G.S. BROCARD SAINT EXUPERY). ^[3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CLAIRE FORÇARD, MÉDECIN · ALBAN POUCHELON, MÉDECIN · BLANDINE POU, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BIOL). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (LE FRISEUR · L'INSTANT COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

2 × Campsite. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Primary school (élémentaire), 1 × Campsite.

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	BIOL'ALPAIN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	MAISON BOUVARD	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	MALEIN	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	BAR RESTAURANT DES HALLES BIOLOISE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE G.S. BROCARD SAINT EXUPERY	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	CLAIRE FORÇARD, MÉDECIN · ALBAN POUCHELON, MÉDECIN · BLANDINE POU, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE BIOL	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	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BIOL	INSEE BPE 1 [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	2	LE FRISEUR · L'INSTANT COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	2		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

A market is recorded here, but no source gives the day. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 810 2023: 1,594 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,410 (2012) → 1,594 (2023): 13 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,025 (1990) → 1,594 (2023): 55.5 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 718, of which 3.9 % second homes and 6.7 % vacant. ^[8]

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 (Biol): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Biol): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Biol): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Biol): 0.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Biol): 0.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21.7

Days at or below 0 °C 92.7

Muggy days a summer 0.9

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 93 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CESSIEU weather station, 7.9 km away at 304 m; the village itself is at 457 m. ^[10]

The village sits 153 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 6.06 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at BOURGOIN, 14.2 km away at 358 m, over 20 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 99 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 1,012 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CESSIEU, 7.9 km away at 304 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38044/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2026-10— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/7d1db0b6-e9e2-351e-a47f-1155af782de8— “Marché hebdomadaire de Biol”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38044/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38044/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38044/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 38044
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
Quintenas	07	64 km SW	1,770	49.2	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 27 % · humidity 93 %
Rolampont	52	273 km N	1,373	43.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Berson	33	469 km W	1,846	44.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 14 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Épain	37	415 km NW	1,471	42	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 18 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Christoly-de-Blaye	33	463 km W	1,879	46.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 9 % · humidity 43 %
Coligny	01	99 km N	1,360	51.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 97 % · winter 59 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Quintenas	07	64 km SW	1,770	49.2	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 27 % · humidity 93 %
Coligny	01	99 km N	1,360	51.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 97 % · winter 59 %
Rolampont	52	273 km N	1,373	43.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Épain	37	415 km NW	1,471	42	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 18 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Christoly-de-Blaye	33	463 km W	1,879	46.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 9 % · humidity 43 %
Berson	33	469 km W	1,846	44.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 14 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Biol'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
Montferrat	38	16 km E	1,846	47.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Marcellaz-Albanais	74	64 km NE	2,058	51.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Novalaise	73	32 km E	2,261	71.9	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Val-de-Virieu	38	6.9 km E	1,528	47.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Cusy	74	58 km NE	1,842	54.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Aillevillers-et-Lyaumont	70	279 km N	1,426	43.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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