Chélieu

Isère · CC Les Vals du Dauphiné · INSEE 38098

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

Few services 24.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 26 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chélieu (INSEE 38098) is in Isère (38), part of CC Les Vals du Dauphiné. Population 733 (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/38098-chelieu

Vitality score

Vitality score 24.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 26 % of the 16,173 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.88	5	4.41

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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”.

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

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 378 2023: 733 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 680 (2012) → 733 (2023): 7.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 415 (1990) → 733 (2023): 76.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 339, of which 5.9 % second homes and 5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 1.7 km NWBakery — 2.5 km NWGP — 3.0 km SPharmacy — 3.1 km S 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 (Montagnieu): 2.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Montagnieu): 1.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Val-de-Virieu): 3 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Val-de-Virieu): 3.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Chélieu): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 17.9

Days at or below 0 °C 99.5▸

Muggy days a summer 0.8

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 100 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CESSIEU weather station, 8.1 km away at 304 m; the village itself is at 541 m. ^[11]

The village sits 237 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. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at BOURGOIN, 16.8 km away at 358 m, over 20 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 183 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 1,012 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CESSIEU, 8.1 km away at 304 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 — 38098/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38098/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38098/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38098/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 38246
INSEE BPE 2025 — 38560
INSEE BPE 2025 — 38098
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
Bayon-sur-Gironde	33	478 km W	734	18.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 1 % · humidity 57 %
Chavannes-sur-Reyssouze	01	109 km N	726	21.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 64 % · winter 50 %
Torcieu	01	46 km N	739	21.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %
Calorguen	22	654 km NW	729	23.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 8 %
Épieds	49	461 km NW	711	21	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 9 % · humidity 93 %
Florentin	81	326 km SW	762	23	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 15 % · winter 27 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Torcieu	01	46 km N	739	21.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %
Chavannes-sur-Reyssouze	01	109 km N	726	21.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 64 % · winter 50 %
Florentin	81	326 km SW	762	23	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 15 % · winter 27 % · humidity 79 %
Épieds	49	461 km NW	711	21	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 9 % · humidity 93 %
Bayon-sur-Gironde	33	478 km W	734	18.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 1 % · humidity 57 %
Calorguen	22	654 km NW	729	23.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 8 %

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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 Chélieu'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
Massingy	74	49 km NE	852	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
L'Hôpital-du-Grosbois	25	193 km N	611	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-Blanche	73	47 km E	596	24.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
La Chailleuse	39	120 km N	587	19.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Châteauvilain	38	11 km W	737	36.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Ours	73	48 km NE	775	26.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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