Haut-du-Them-Château-Lambert

Identity

Haut-du-Them-Château-Lambert (INSEE 70283) is in Haute-Saône (70), part of CC des 1000 étangs. Population 449 (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/70283-haut-du-them-chateau-lambert

Vitality score

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

Confidence: high.

Better served than 31 % of the 17,934 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]

2 × Restaurant (AUBERGE DES SOURCES). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (HAUT DU THEM AP). ^[3]

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, Library. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 436 (2012) → 449 (2023): 3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 465 (1990) → 449 (2023): -3.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 355, of which 24.5 % second homes and 14.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Beulotte-Saint-Laurent): 4.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Servance-Miellin): 4.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Servance-Miellin): 4.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Le Thillot): 5.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Servance-Miellin): 4.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

An average of 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 51 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the BALLON DE SERVANCE weather station, 5.4 km away at 1,213 m; the village itself is at 479 m. ^[11]

The village sits 734 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 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at BALLON DE SERVANCE, 5.4 km away at 1,213 m, over 19 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 734 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 1,829 mm of rain a year, spread over 162 days — about 11.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SERVANCE, 3.6 km away at 425 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 — 70283/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70283/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70283/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70283/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 70071
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 70489
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88468
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024