Cognin-les-Gorges

Isère · CC Saint-Marcellin Vercors Isère Communauté · INSEE 38117

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

Partly served 45.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 88 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cognin-les-Gorges (INSEE 38117) is in Isère (38), part of CC Saint-Marcellin Vercors Isère Communauté. Population 615 (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/38117-cognin-les-gorges

Vitality score

Vitality score 45.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 88 % of the 16,957 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	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.66	10	6.56
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.63

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 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 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (EPICERIE COGNIN LES GORGES). ^[4,3]

1 × Restaurant (BACHOP'S BAR). ^[4,3]

1 × Café / bar. ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (COGNIN LES GORGES AP). ^[4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE COGNIN-LES-GORGES DU NAN). ^[4]

1 × Campsite. ^[4,3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	EPICERIE COGNIN LES GORGES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	1	BACHOP'S BAR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,3]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	COGNIN LES GORGES AP	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE COGNIN-LES-GORGES DU NAN	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 397 peak 2012: 648 2023: 615 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 648 (2012) → 615 (2023): -5.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 532 (1990) → 615 (2023): 15.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 328, of which 3.7 % second homes and 8.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 3.5 km WGP — 4.2 km NPharmacy — 4.3 km N 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 (Têche): 3.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Cognin-les-Gorges): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Vinay): 4.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Vinay): 4.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Cognin-les-Gorges): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 33.5

Days at or below 0 °C 64.1

Muggy days a summer 3.4

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 34 days a year at or above 30 °C and 64 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CHATTE_SAPC weather station, 9 km away at 272 m; the village itself is at 274 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at CHATTE_SAPC, 9 km away at 272 m, over 18 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,571 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 12.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at RENCUREL, 8.1 km away at 885 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 — 38117/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38117/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38117/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38117/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 38500
INSEE BPE 2025 — 38117
INSEE BPE 2025 — 38559
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
Confort	01	114 km N	668	48.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 45 % · humidity 79 %
Le Chaffaut-Saint-Jurson	04	139 km SE	693	49.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 51 % · humidity 79 %
Clessé	71	146 km N	829	46.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Lauret	34	192 km SW	626	47.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Luthenay-Uxeloup	58	250 km NW	606	39	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Méry-ès-Bois	18	334 km NW	533	40.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 93 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Confort	01	114 km N	668	48.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 45 % · humidity 79 %
Le Chaffaut-Saint-Jurson	04	139 km SE	693	49.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 51 % · humidity 79 %
Clessé	71	146 km N	829	46.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Lauret	34	192 km SW	626	47.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Luthenay-Uxeloup	58	250 km NW	606	39	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Méry-ès-Bois	18	334 km NW	533	40.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 93 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Cognin-les-Gorges'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
Paray-sous-Briailles	03	202 km NW	616	38.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Marquixanes	66	366 km SW	599	47.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Rongères	03	197 km NW	555	29.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Bren	26	37 km W	709	41.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Izeron	38	3.9 km SW	809	40.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Billy	03	194 km NW	817	31.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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