La Chaux-du-Dombief

Jura · CC la Grandvallière · INSEE 39131

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

Partly served 47.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 91 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Chaux-du-Dombief (INSEE 39131) is in Jura (39), part of CC la Grandvallière. Population 574 (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 47.2/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 91 % of the 17,317 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	0.42	25	10.54
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	0.8	10	7.99
Housing mix	0.7	5	3.49

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 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 0 of 3

Lodging 1 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) (BOULANGERIE DU HAUT JURA). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (CHAUX SNACK · L'AUBERGE DU GROMINET). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA CHAUX DU DOMBIEF AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE LA CHAUX-DU-DOMBIEF). ^[3]

1 × Hotel (AUBERGE DU HERISSON). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie), 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: 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	BOULANGERIE DU HAUT JURA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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	CHAUX SNACK · L'AUBERGE DU GROMINET	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	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	LA CHAUX DU DOMBIEF AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE LA CHAUX-DU-DOMBIEF	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	AUBERGE DU HERISSON	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 324 2023: 574 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 530 (2012) → 574 (2023): 8.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 442 (1990) → 574 (2023): 29.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 318, of which 15.1 % second homes and 3.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Pharmacy — 5.0 km SEGP — 5.2 km SEFood shop — 5.4 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 (La Chaux-du-Dombief): 0.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Laurent-en-Grandvaux): 5.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Laurent-en-Grandvaux): 5.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Laurent-en-Grandvaux): 5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (La Chaux-du-Dombief): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 2.2▸

Days at or below 0 °C 141.5▸

Muggy days a summer 0

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 2 days a year at or above 30 °C and 142 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ST LAURENT - SA weather station, 4.3 km away at 880 m; the village itself is at 884 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ST LAURENT - SA, 4.3 km away at 880 m, over 10 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,786 mm of rain a year, spread over 150 days — about 11.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LE FRASNOIS, 3.4 km away at 773 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 39131/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 39131/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 39131/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 39131/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 39131
INSEE BPE 2025 — 39487
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
Vocance	07	188 km SW	613	45.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Beauregard-de-Terrasson	24	396 km W	731	42.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Préaux	07	189 km SW	708	45.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Les Ternes	15	287 km SW	567	38	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 39 % · humidity 100 %
Le Pertuis	43	220 km SW	576	56.8	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 32 % · humidity 100 %
Chailley	89	234 km NW	533	46.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Vocance	07	188 km SW	613	45.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Préaux	07	189 km SW	708	45.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Le Pertuis	43	220 km SW	576	56.8	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 32 % · humidity 100 %
Chailley	89	234 km NW	533	46.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Les Ternes	15	287 km SW	567	38	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 39 % · humidity 100 %
Beauregard-de-Terrasson	24	396 km W	731	42.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Chaux-du-Dombief'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
Les Gras	25	65 km NE	817	45.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Vaux-et-Chantegrue	25	35 km NE	689	41	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Fort-du-Plasne	39	6.6 km E	484	31.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Bonnet-le-Courreau	42	184 km SW	677	49.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Remoray-Boujeons	25	31 km NE	466	33.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
La Chenalotte	25	82 km NE	549	45.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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