Sermérieu

Isère · CC Les Balcons du Dauphiné · INSEE 38483

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

Few services 33.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 26 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sermérieu (INSEE 38483) is in Isère (38), part of CC Les Balcons du Dauphiné. Population 1,638 (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/38483-sermerieu

Vitality score

Vitality score 33.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 26 % of the 10,965 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	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.61

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

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LE PANIER DU PRIMEUR · EPICERIE TABAC DE SERMERIEU). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (PALMA SERMERIEU). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (SERMERIEU AP). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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)	2	LE PANIER DU PRIMEUR · EPICERIE TABAC DE SERMERIEU	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	1	PALMA SERMERIEU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LE BOURG	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	SERMERIEU AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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 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	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: 639 peak 2017: 1,668 2023: 1,638 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,493 (2012) → 1,638 (2023): 9.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 935 (1990) → 1,638 (2023): 75.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 790, of which 3.9 % second homes and 4.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 2.8 km SGP — 3.2 km EPharmacy — 4.8 km E 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 (Saint-Chef): 2.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sermérieu): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Arandon-Passins): 3.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Morestel): 4.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Sermérieu): 0.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

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 1.6

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, 7.6 km away at 315 m; the village itself is at 311 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at BOURGOIN, 10.4 km away at 358 m, over 20 summers. ^[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, 7.6 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 — 38483/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38483/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38483/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38483/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 38374
INSEE BPE 2025 — 38483
INSEE BPE 2025 — 38297
INSEE BPE 2025 — 38261
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
Saint-Lattier	38	67 km S	1,486	36.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %
Leyment	01	29 km N	1,441	31.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Ouen-en-Belin	72	463 km NW	1,313	31.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Les Peintures	33	435 km W	1,620	39.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 69 % · humidity 0 %
Beaumont-sur-Lèze	31	410 km SW	1,647	34.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 55 % · humidity 57 %
Dirac	16	401 km W	1,516	29.7	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Leyment	01	29 km N	1,441	31.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Lattier	38	67 km S	1,486	36.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %
Dirac	16	401 km W	1,516	29.7	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Beaumont-sur-Lèze	31	410 km SW	1,647	34.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 55 % · humidity 57 %
Les Peintures	33	435 km W	1,620	39.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 69 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Ouen-en-Belin	72	463 km NW	1,313	31.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 55 % · 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 Sermérieu'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
Leyment	01	29 km N	1,441	31.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Briennon	42	115 km NW	1,710	37.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Valravillon	89	289 km NW	1,779	34.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Coise-Saint-Jean-Pied-Gauthier	73	59 km E	1,305	35	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Dampierre-en-Burly	45	320 km NW	1,466	37	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-du-Mont	01	48 km N	2,023	28.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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