Choux

Identity

Choux (INSEE 39151) is in Jura (39), part of CC Haut-Jura Saint-Claude. Population 139 (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/39151-choux

Vitality score

Vitality score 16.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 60 % of the 13,473 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.

Services

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

1 × Restaurant (MINKA). ^[3,4]

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

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, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 120 (2012) → 139 (2023): 15.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 135 (1990) → 139 (2023): 3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 96, of which 22.9 % second homes and 14.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Les Bouchoux): 3.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Viry): 2.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Viry): 2.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Chassal-Molinges): 5.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Viry): 2.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

An average of 3 days a year at or above 30 °C and 92 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LA PESSE weather station, 5.8 km away at 1,133 m; the village itself is at 822 m. ^[11]

The village sits 311 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.55 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at LA PESSE, 5.8 km away at 1,133 m, over 27 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 311 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.06 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 1,649 mm of rain a year, spread over 149 days — about 11.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LA PESSE, 5.8 km away at 1,133 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 39151/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 39151/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 39151/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 39151/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 39068
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 39579
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 39339
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024