Optevoz

Isère · CC Les Balcons du Dauphiné · INSEE 38282

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

Partly served 44.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 78 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Optevoz (INSEE 38282) is in Isère (38), part of CC Les Balcons du Dauphiné. Population 875 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/38282-optevoz

Vitality score

Vitality score 44.5/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 78 % of the 15,155 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.43

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (PIZZA CONTI · L'AUBERGE DES PEINTRES). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (OPTEVOZ RPC RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (EL COIF · LA COIFFERIE & CIE · HAIR'G COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[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 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	2	PIZZA CONTI · L'AUBERGE DES PEINTRES	INSEE BPE 2 / 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	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	1	OPTEVOZ RPC RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE	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	3	EL COIF · LA COIFFERIE & CIE · HAIR'G COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 3 / 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: 263 2023: 875 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 785 (2012) → 875 (2023): 11.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 455 (1990) → 875 (2023): 92.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 405, of which 5.7 % second homes and 6.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 5.2 km SEGP — 6.4 km NWPharmacy — 6.9 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 (Optevoz): 0.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Soleymieu): 5.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Hières-sur-Amby): 6.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Crémieu): 6.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.6

Days at or below 0 °C 70.6

Muggy days a summer 2.1

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 28 days a year at or above 30 °C and 71 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the COURTENAY weather station, 4.8 km away at 315 m; the village itself is at 288 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at BOURGOIN, 16.3 km away at 358 m, over 20 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 70 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,057 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 9 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at COURTENAY, 4.8 km away at 315 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38282/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38282/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38282/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38282/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 38282
INSEE BPE 2025 — 38494
INSEE BPE 2025 — 38190
INSEE BPE 2025 — 38138
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
Ceintrey	54	315 km N	889	39.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Odenas	69	65 km NW	938	41.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 70 % · humidity 79 %
Chooz	08	485 km N	825	39.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 68 %
Plancher-les-Mines	70	248 km NE	839	32.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 74 % · humidity 86 %
Lay	42	89 km W	777	37.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 29 %
Preuschdorf	67	401 km NE	886	41.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Odenas	69	65 km NW	938	41.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 70 % · humidity 79 %
Lay	42	89 km W	777	37.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 29 %
Plancher-les-Mines	70	248 km NE	839	32.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 74 % · humidity 86 %
Ceintrey	54	315 km N	889	39.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Preuschdorf	67	401 km NE	886	41.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Chooz	08	485 km N	825	39.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 68 %

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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 Optevoz'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
Preuschdorf	67	401 km NE	886	41.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Rittershoffen	67	402 km NE	928	40.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Hauteville-sur-Fier	74	53 km E	1,155	32.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Langensoultzbach	67	401 km NE	904	30.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Igé	71	85 km NW	897	48.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Gœrsdorf	67	400 km NE	1,039	29.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

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