Besain

Jura · CC Arbois, Poligny, Salins, Coeur du Jura · INSEE 39050

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

No daily shops 17.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 56 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Besain (INSEE 39050) is in Jura (39), part of CC Arbois, Poligny, Salins, Coeur du Jura. Population 159 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 17.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 56 % of the 14,517 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	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.59	10	5.89
Housing mix	0.68	5	3.4

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 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 food shop, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	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	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 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	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: 163 peak 1999: 180 2023: 159 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 152 (2012) → 159 (2023): 4.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 146 (1990) → 159 (2023): 8.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 100, of which 16 % second homes and 6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery Primary school — 3.4 km EFood shop — 3.5 km EGP — 4.6 km SPharmacy — 8.8 km SE 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 (Besain): 0.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Montrond): 3.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Crotenay): 4.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Champagnole): 8.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Montrond): 3.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18

Days at or below 0 °C 118.3▸

Muggy days a summer 0.1

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 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 118 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the BESAIN weather station, 0.1 km away at 535 m; the village itself is at 531 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at CHAMPAGNOLE, 7.6 km away at 537 m, over 26 summers. ^[12]

An average of 1,519 mm of rain a year, spread over 147 days — about 10.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at BESAIN, 0.1 km away at 535 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 — 39050/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 39050/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 39050/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 39050/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 39050
INSEE BPE 2025 — 39364
INSEE BPE 2025 — 39183
INSEE BPE 2025 — 39097
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
Roffey	89	189 km NW	148	15.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 4 % · humidity 86 %
Plagne	01	66 km S	159	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 41 % · humidity 100 %
Vergies	80	455 km NW	174	17.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Grésigny-Sainte-Reine	21	130 km NW	147	17.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 16 % · humidity 93 %
Amel-sur-l'Étang	55	276 km N	153	18.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 22 % · humidity 93 %
Villers-le-Sec	55	208 km N	135	14.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 42 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Plagne	01	66 km S	159	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 41 % · humidity 100 %
Grésigny-Sainte-Reine	21	130 km NW	147	17.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 16 % · humidity 93 %
Roffey	89	189 km NW	148	15.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 4 % · humidity 86 %
Villers-le-Sec	55	208 km N	135	14.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 42 % · humidity 100 %
Amel-sur-l'Étang	55	276 km N	153	18.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 22 % · humidity 93 %
Vergies	80	455 km NW	174	17.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 0 % · 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 Besain'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
Syam	39	15 km SE	184	7.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Molain	39	4.4 km N	111	11.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Les Crozets	39	36 km S	194	17.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Thiolières	63	210 km SW	164	11.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Valempoulières	39	7.0 km NE	213	13.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Bourg-de-Sirod	39	14 km SE	88	13.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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