Valjouffrey

Isère · CC de la Matheysine · INSEE 38522

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

No daily shops 18.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 60 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Valjouffrey (INSEE 38522) is in Isère (38), part of CC de la Matheysine. Population 167 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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/38522-valjouffrey

Vitality score

Vitality score 18.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 60 % of the 14,851 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.52	10	5.18
Housing mix	0	5	0

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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”.

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

2 × Restaurant (LE BAR RESTAURANT DES ECRINS · CAMILLE GLACE - REFUGE DE FONT TURBAT). ^[3,4]

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Campsite.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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)	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	LE BAR RESTAURANT DES ECRINS · CAMILLE GLACE - REFUGE DE FONT TURBAT	INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	VALJOUFFREY 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	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]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 124 2023: 167 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 156 (2012) → 167 (2023): 7.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 164 (1990) → 167 (2023): 1.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 305, of which 63.6 % second homes and 5.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 5.0 km WPrimary school — 7.0 km NWFood shop — 8.7 km SPharmacy — 8.7 km SWGP — 8.9 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 (Entraigues): 5 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Firmin): 8.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Corps): 8.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Corps): 8.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Entraigues): 7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14.2

Days at or below 0 °C 137.9▸

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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 138 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the VALJOUFFREY weather station, 1.3 km away at 980 m; the village itself is at 1,023 m. ^[11]

An average of 1,095 mm of rain a year, spread over 101 days — about 10.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at VALJOUFFREY, 1.3 km away at 980 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 — 38522/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38522/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38522/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 38522/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 38154
INSEE BPE 2025 — 05142
INSEE BPE 2025 — 38128
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
Mandailles-Saint-Julien	15	266 km W	172	10.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 12 %
Lachapelle-Graillouse	07	159 km W	182	10.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 69 % · winter 58 %
Barrettali	2B	347 km SE	174	21	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 0 %
Saint-Romain	63	181 km NW	197	14.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 72 % · winter 24 %
Le Claux	15	263 km W	160	14.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 54 %
Azet	65	510 km SW	148	14.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 65 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Lachapelle-Graillouse	07	159 km W	182	10.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 69 % · winter 58 %
Saint-Romain	63	181 km NW	197	14.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 72 % · winter 24 %
Le Claux	15	263 km W	160	14.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 54 %
Mandailles-Saint-Julien	15	266 km W	172	10.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 12 %
Barrettali	2B	347 km SE	174	21	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 0 %
Azet	65	510 km SW	148	14.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 65 %

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