La Tronche

Isère · Grenoble-Alpes-Métropole · INSEE 38516

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

Partly served 48.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 34 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Tronche (INSEE 38516) is in Isère (38), part of Grenoble-Alpes-Métropole. Population 6,424 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Grands centres urbains (level 1). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/38516-la-tronche

Vitality score

Vitality score 48.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 34 % of the 3,729 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	0.38	25	9.52
Social	0.5	20	9.97
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.68	10	6.77
Public & culture	0.31	5	1.54
Population trend	0.5	10	4.95
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.66

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 2 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]

3 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE FOURNIL DE CHAMPAGNE · EURL CHENU ALEXANDRE · BOULANGERIE DEL VECCHIO). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (MAISON RAFA). ^[3]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (SABTI 18). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (CARREFOUR EXPRESS). ^[3,4]

23 × Restaurant (RESTAURANT BRASSERIE LES TROIS DAUPHINS · ESPACE VENTE A EMPORTER LA GUERITE · SARL IANNONE · GREEN MANGO). ^[3,4]

2 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE CARRONNERIE · ECOLE MATERNELLE BRISE DES NEIGES). ^[3]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE CARRONNERIE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE DU COTEAU). ^[3]

7 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ANTOINE ATTIER, MÉDECIN · OLIVIER PERETTO, MÉDECIN · MICHEL SALVI, MÉDECIN · THIERRY MICHALAK, MÉDECIN · SYLVIANE BRUNIER, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

3 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE GUILLAUD · PHARMACIE DU PEAGE · SELARL PHARMACIE DOYEN GOSSE). ^[3,4]

2 × Post office / agence postale (LA TRONCHE DOYEN GOSSE AP · LA TRONCHE LA PETITE TRONCHE AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE DE LA TRONCHE LE VERBE ÊTRE). ^[3]

4 × Gym / sports hall (GYMNASE JEAN BERGER · MAISON DES SPORTS · GYMNASE DOYEN GOSSE · GYMNASE DE LA FAC DE MEDECINE). ^[3]

6 × Hairdresser (PAT'COIFFURE · SARL AQUA ESPACE COIFFURE · BALATA · ASC BALATA). ^[3,4]

2 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 3 × Restaurant, 2 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Café / bar. ^[4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	3	LE FOURNIL DE CHAMPAGNE · EURL CHENU ALEXANDRE · BOULANGERIE DEL VECCHIO	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	MAISON RAFA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	SABTI 18	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	CARREFOUR EXPRESS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	23	RESTAURANT BRASSERIE LES TROIS DAUPHINS · ESPACE VENTE A EMPORTER LA GUERITE · SARL IANNONE · GREEN MANGO	INSEE BPE 23 / INSEE SIRENE 32 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	2	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE CARRONNERIE · ECOLE MATERNELLE BRISE DES NEIGES	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE CARRONNERIE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE DU COTEAU	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	7	ANTOINE ATTIER, MÉDECIN · OLIVIER PERETTO, MÉDECIN · MICHEL SALVI, MÉDECIN · THIERRY MICHALAK, MÉDECIN · SYLVIANE BRUNIER, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 7 [3]
Pharmacy	3	PHARMACIE GUILLAUD · PHARMACIE DU PEAGE · SELARL PHARMACIE DOYEN GOSSE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	2	LA TRONCHE DOYEN GOSSE AP · LA TRONCHE LA PETITE TRONCHE AP	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE DE LA TRONCHE LE VERBE ÊTRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	4	GYMNASE JEAN BERGER · MAISON DES SPORTS · GYMNASE DOYEN GOSSE · GYMNASE DE LA FAC DE MEDECINE	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	6	PAT'COIFFURE · SARL AQUA ESPACE COIFFURE · BALATA · ASC BALATA	INSEE BPE 6 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]
Fuel station	2	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 7,993 2023: 6,424 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 6,627 (2012) → 6,424 (2023): -3.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 6,454 (1990) → 6,424 (2023): -0.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 3,438, of which 3.4 % second homes and 12.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Bakery — 0.6 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 (La Tronche): 0.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Tronche): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (La Tronche): 0.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (La Tronche): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (La Tronche): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 51.6▸

Days at or below 0 °C 53.9

Muggy days a summer 2.4

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 52 days a year at or above 30 °C and 54 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the ST-M-D'HERES-GALOCHERE weather station, 4.7 km away at 220 m; the village itself is at 232 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at GRENOBLE - LVD, 8.8 km away at 220 m, over 23 summers. ^[9]

An average of 973 mm of rain a year, spread over 107 days — about 9.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at ST-M-D'HERES-GALOCHERE, 4.7 km away at 220 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38516/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38516/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38516/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38516/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 38516
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
Bonsecours	76	584 km NW	6,442	46.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Boussy-Saint-Antoine	91	457 km NW	8,097	51.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 3 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Le Mesnil-le-Roi	78	496 km NW	6,332	54.5	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 8 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Cormontreuil	51	465 km N	6,534	63.7	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 13 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Alban-Leysse	73	45 km N	6,734	65.1	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 69 % · humidity 86 %
Saulx-les-Chartreux	91	469 km NW	6,733	59.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 5 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Alban-Leysse	73	45 km N	6,734	65.1	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 69 % · humidity 86 %
Boussy-Saint-Antoine	91	457 km NW	8,097	51.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 3 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Cormontreuil	51	465 km N	6,534	63.7	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 13 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Saulx-les-Chartreux	91	469 km NW	6,733	59.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 5 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Le Mesnil-le-Roi	78	496 km NW	6,332	54.5	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 8 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Bonsecours	76	584 km NW	6,442	46.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 81 % · 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 La Tronche'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
Seyssins	38	6.2 km SW	8,092	59.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Gières	38	5.0 km SE	7,376	55.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Guilherand-Granges	07	75 km SW	11,235	49.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Le Pont-de-Claix	38	9.6 km S	10,956	48.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Seyssinet-Pariset	38	4.3 km SW	11,739	45.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue	84	148 km SW	8,913	57.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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