Meussia

Jura · CC Terre d'Émeraude Communauté · INSEE 39328

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

Few services 21.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 37 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Meussia (INSEE 39328) is in Jura (39), part of CC Terre d'Émeraude Communauté. Population 438 (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/39328-meussia

Vitality score

Vitality score 21.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 37 % of the 17,909 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.61	10	6.15
Housing mix	0.87	5	4.37

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

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

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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	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)	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	MEUSSIA 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 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 302 peak 2012: 453 2023: 438 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 453 (2012) → 438 (2023): -3.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 393 (1990) → 438 (2023): 11.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 239, of which 6.3 % second homes and 7.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 4.5 km SGP — 6.8 km SPharmacy — 6.8 km SBakery — 7.6 km S 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 (Moirans-en-Montagne): 7.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Crenans): 4.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Moirans-en-Montagne): 6.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Moirans-en-Montagne): 6.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Meussia): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18.8

Days at or below 0 °C 86.9

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 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 87 days at or below 0 °C, over 14 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ORGELET weather station, 8.8 km away at 493 m; the village itself is at 585 m. ^[11]

The village sits 92 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 CHAUX-DES-PRES-INRAE, 10.7 km away at 854 m, over 10 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 269 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 1,807 mm of rain a year, spread over 148 days — about 12.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CHATEL-DE-JOUX, 6.1 km away at 769 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 — 39328/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 39328/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 39328/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 39328/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 39333
INSEE BPE 2025 — 39179
INSEE BPE 2025 — 39328
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
Pleure	39	51 km NW	435	22.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 69 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Rémy-en-Comté	70	151 km N	436	14.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Beutin	62	533 km NW	436	24.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 28 % · humidity 93 %
Antoingt	63	226 km SW	413	21.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Beaumont-en-Argonne	08	342 km N	415	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Versigny	02	390 km NW	470	20.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Pleure	39	51 km NW	435	22.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 69 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Rémy-en-Comté	70	151 km N	436	14.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Antoingt	63	226 km SW	413	21.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Beaumont-en-Argonne	08	342 km N	415	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Versigny	02	390 km NW	470	20.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Beutin	62	533 km NW	436	24.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 28 % · 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 Meussia'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
Sainte-Hélène	88	211 km N	447	19	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Charnay	25	72 km N	467	19.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Velesmes-Échevanne	70	102 km N	491	23.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Chambeire	21	94 km N	420	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Franchevelle	70	149 km N	491	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Véronnes	21	121 km N	386	21.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %

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