Notre-Dame-de-Mésage

Isère · Grenoble-Alpes-Métropole · INSEE 38279

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

No daily shops 14.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 1 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Notre-Dame-de-Mésage (INSEE 38279) is in Isère (38), part of Grenoble-Alpes-Métropole. Population 1,129 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 14.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 1 % of the 13,610 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	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.37	10	3.7
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.85

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 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”.

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

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUB LA ROMANCHE). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUB LA ROMANCHE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE LA ROMANCHE	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	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: 240 peak 1990: 1,297 2023: 1,129 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,203 (2012) → 1,129 (2023): -6.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,297 (1990) → 1,129 (2023): -13 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 518, of which 1.5 % second homes and 5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 0.6 km EBakery — 1.2 km NEPharmacy — 1.3 km NEGP — 1.4 km NE 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 (Vizille): 1.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Vizille): 0.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Vizille): 1.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Vizille): 1.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Notre-Dame-de-Mésage): 0.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 41.8

Days at or below 0 °C 63.9

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 42 days a year at or above 30 °C and 64 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ST-M-D'HERES-GALOCHERE weather station, 11 km away at 220 m; the village itself is at 365 m. ^[10]

The village sits 145 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]

An average of 944 mm of rain a year, spread over 101 days — about 9.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at VARCES, 5.8 km away at 253 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 — 38279/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38279/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38279/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38279/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 38562
INSEE BPE 2025 — 38279
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
Brouderdorff	57	416 km N	987	23.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 36 % · winter 85 %
Compertrix	51	443 km N	1,308	18.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 31 % · winter 84 %
Lavault-Sainte-Anne	03	281 km NW	1,139	16.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 97 %
Aviron	27	566 km NW	1,096	15.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 26 % · winter 84 %
Nesles-la-Montagne	02	473 km N	1,189	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 18 % · winter 68 %
Buschwiller	68	308 km NE	1,047	20.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 46 % · winter 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Lavault-Sainte-Anne	03	281 km NW	1,139	16.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 97 %
Buschwiller	68	308 km NE	1,047	20.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 46 % · winter 93 %
Brouderdorff	57	416 km N	987	23.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 36 % · winter 85 %
Compertrix	51	443 km N	1,308	18.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 31 % · winter 84 %
Nesles-la-Montagne	02	473 km N	1,189	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 18 % · winter 68 %
Aviron	27	566 km NW	1,096	15.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 26 % · winter 84 %

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