Val-Sonnette

Jura · CC Porte du Jura · INSEE 39576

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

Few services 27.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 15 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Val-Sonnette (INSEE 39576) is in Jura (39), part of CC Porte du Jura. Population 1,318 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2025-01-01 from 4 former communes: Sainte-Agnès (39474), Bonnaud (39064), Grusse (39264), Vercia (39549). ^[3]

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 27.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 15 % of the 12,567 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.39	20	7.77
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.75	10	7.48
Housing mix	0.78	5	3.89

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no school. ^[4,5]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA FOURNEE DU REVERMONT). ^[4,5]

3 × Restaurant (HOME A TOUT · AUTOUR DE L'ATRE). ^[4,5]

1 × Post office / agence postale (ST AGNES AP). ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser (AC COIFFURE). ^[4,5]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Primary school (élémentaire).

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LA FOURNEE DU REVERMONT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	3	HOME A TOUT · AUTOUR DE L'ATRE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [4,5]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	ST AGNES AP	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	1	AC COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 925 2023: 1,318 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,290 (2012) → 1,318 (2023): 2.2 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,056 (1990) → 1,318 (2023): 24.8 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 727, of which 11.1 % second homes and 7 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 1.2 km NWPrimary school — 2.5 km EFood shop — 4.2 km SWGP — 4.4 km SWPharmacy — 4.4 km SW 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 (Val-Sonnette): 1.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Beaufort-Orbagna): 4.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Beaufort-Orbagna): 4.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Beaufort-Orbagna): 4.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (La Chailleuse): 2.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 19.7

Days at or below 0 °C 45.2

Muggy days a summer 2.7

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 20 days a year at or above 30 °C and 45 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the LONS LE SAUNIER weather station, 10.7 km away at 298 m; the village itself is at 236 m. ^[12]

The village sits 62 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at LONS LE SAUNIER, 10.7 km away at 298 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 62 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.06 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,129 mm of rain a year, spread over 134 days — about 8.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at BEAUFORT, 4.5 km away at 250 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 — 39576/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 39576/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 39576/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 39576/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 39576
INSEE BPE 2025 — 39043
INSEE BPE 2025 — 39021
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
Saint-Pierre-Eynac	43	206 km SW	1,288	38.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 23 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Fiel	23	278 km W	1,087	26.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
La Chapelle-sur-Loire	37	406 km W	1,468	28.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Pays-de-Montbenoît	25	87 km NE	1,923	33.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 18 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Porquier	82	443 km SW	1,326	34.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %
Ardon	45	302 km NW	1,203	34	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 78 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Pays-de-Montbenoît	25	87 km NE	1,923	33.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 18 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Pierre-Eynac	43	206 km SW	1,288	38.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 23 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Fiel	23	278 km W	1,087	26.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Ardon	45	302 km NW	1,203	34	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 78 %
La Chapelle-sur-Loire	37	406 km W	1,468	28.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Porquier	82	443 km SW	1,326	34.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 99 % · 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 Val-Sonnette'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
La Chapelle-sur-Loire	37	406 km W	1,468	28.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Fiacre-sur-Maine	44	528 km W	1,251	32.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Exideuil-sur-Vienne	16	378 km W	1,035	27.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Alban-d'Ay	07	170 km SW	1,384	33.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Escoutoux	63	171 km SW	1,369	32.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Valromey-sur-Séran	01	81 km S	1,351	22.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

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