Menétrux-en-Joux

Identity

Menétrux-en-Joux (INSEE 39322) is in Jura (39), part of CC Terre d'Émeraude Communauté. Population 76 (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/39322-menetrux-en-joux

Vitality score

Vitality score 20.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 90 % of the 8,064 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 (CASCADES CAFE). ^[4,3]

1 × Campsite. ^[4,3]

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, 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 61 (2012) → 76 (2023): 24.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 38 (1990) → 76 (2023): 100 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 61, of which 39.3 % second homes and 4.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (La Chaux-du-Dombief): 5.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Doucier): 5.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Doucier): 5.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Doucier): 5.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Bonlieu): 3.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

An average of 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 87 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the COGNA weather station, 6.8 km away at 577 m; the village itself is at 676 m. ^[11]

The village sits 99 m above 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 ST LAURENT - SA, 10.4 km away at 880 m, over 10 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 204 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 1,786 mm of rain a year, spread over 150 days — about 11.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LE FRASNOIS, 5.2 km away at 773 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 — 39322/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
4. INSEE BPE 2025
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 39322/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 39322/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 39322/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 39131
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 39201
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 39063
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024