Brangues

Isère · CC Les Balcons du Dauphiné · INSEE 38055

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

Few services 34.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 67 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Brangues (INSEE 38055) is in Isère (38), part of CC Les Balcons du Dauphiné. Population 614 (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/38055-brangues

Vitality score

Vitality score 34.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 67 % of the 16,950 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.86	10	8.65
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.83	5	4.15

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE AURORE BOREALE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Collège (ECOLE SECONDAIRE PRIVEE AURORE BOREALE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE BRANGUES LES LISERONS). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (AIRE NATURELLE LA TOUR DES SAVEURS). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE AURORE BOREALE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	1	ECOLE SECONDAIRE PRIVEE AURORE BOREALE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE BRANGUES LES LISERONS	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	1		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	1	AIRE NATURELLE LA TOUR DES SAVEURS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 363 peak 2017: 626 2023: 614 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 600 (2012) → 614 (2023): 2.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 388 (1990) → 614 (2023): 58.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 319, of which 8.5 % second homes and 9.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 0.9 km WFood shop — 4.2 km SWGP — 4.7 km EPharmacy — 4.9 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 (Brangues): 0.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Morestel): 4.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Groslée-Saint-Benoit): 4.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Morestel): 4.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Brangues): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 29

Days at or below 0 °C 58.4

Muggy days a summer 2.9

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 29 days a year at or above 30 °C and 58 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the COURTENAY weather station, 11.9 km away at 315 m; the village itself is at 222 m. ^[11]

The village sits 93 m below 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at BOURGOIN, 19.6 km away at 358 m, over 20 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 136 m above 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 1,117 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 9.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at FAVERGES, 11.1 km away at 367 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 — 38055/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38055/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38055/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38055/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 38055
INSEE BPE 2025 — 38261
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01338
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
Estézargues	30	207 km S	605	32.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Deaux	30	211 km SW	638	32.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 54 % · humidity 86 %
Coulmiers	45	385 km NW	576	26.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Fontaines-en-Sologne	41	365 km NW	661	29.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Écuillé	49	511 km NW	655	32.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Maslives	41	377 km NW	649	28.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 74 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Estézargues	30	207 km S	605	32.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Deaux	30	211 km SW	638	32.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 54 % · humidity 86 %
Fontaines-en-Sologne	41	365 km NW	661	29.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Maslives	41	377 km NW	649	28.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 74 %
Coulmiers	45	385 km NW	576	26.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Écuillé	49	511 km NW	655	32.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 80 % · 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 Brangues'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
Bussy-Albieux	42	117 km W	547	31.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Moras	38	21 km W	520	32.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Trèves	69	69 km W	712	32.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Gennetines	03	194 km NW	615	22	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Maurice-en-Rivière	71	135 km N	532	23.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-Naude	71	103 km N	500	35.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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