Bassens

Savoie · CA du Grand Chambéry · INSEE 73031

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Partly served 50.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 41 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bassens (INSEE 73031) is in Savoie (73), part of CA du Grand Chambéry. Population 5,175 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Grands centres urbains (level 1). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/73031-bassens

Vitality score

Vitality score 50.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 41 % of the 4,543 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.59	20	11.82
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.54	10	5.43
Public & culture	0.11	5	0.55
Population trend	0.95	10	9.47
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.8

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

2 × Butcher (boucherie) (TERROIR DES ALPES · BOUCHERIE BERNAT). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (EN DIRECT D'ITALIE · EPICERIE DU NIVOLET). ^[3,4]

2 × Supermarket (CARREFOUR · CTK BASSENS). ^[3,4]

13 × Restaurant (DJP · M.B.A · PIZZA CHIC LIVRAISON · TAO! FOOD TRUCK · GUILAIN DIGARD). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (BOULODROME). ^[4]

2 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE LA PLAINE). ^[3]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQU CHEF LIEU · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUB LA PLAINE). ^[3]

8 × GP (médecin généraliste) (HELENE MENURET, MÉDECIN · CORENTIN ROOSE, MÉDECIN · MARIE-JOSEPHE MARCELLIN-ROSSAT, MÉDECIN · GHISLAINE BOEUF, MÉDECIN · ETIENNE DALMAIS, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DU PRADIAN). ^[3,4]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE). ^[3]

2 × Gym / sports hall (GYMNASE CHEF LIEU · GYMNASE DE LA PLAINE). ^[3]

3 × Bank (CREDIT AGRICOLE DES SAVOIE · CAISSE CREDIT MUTUEL DE BASSENS). ^[3]

5 × Hairdresser (ENTRE NOUS COIFFURE · PASCAL COSTE COIFFURE · SENSO · PEREIRA DA SILVA TAISSA). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant, 1 × Pharmacy, 1 × Bank, 4 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Post office / agence postale. ^[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)	2	TERROIR DES ALPES · BOUCHERIE BERNAT	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	EN DIRECT D'ITALIE · EPICERIE DU NIVOLET	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Supermarket	2	CARREFOUR · CTK BASSENS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	13	DJP · M.B.A · PIZZA CHIC LIVRAISON · TAO! FOOD TRUCK · GUILAIN DIGARD	INSEE BPE 13 / INSEE SIRENE 16 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	BOULODROME	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	2	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE LA PLAINE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQU CHEF LIEU · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUB LA PLAINE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	8	HELENE MENURET, MÉDECIN · CORENTIN ROOSE, MÉDECIN · MARIE-JOSEPHE MARCELLIN-ROSSAT, MÉDECIN · GHISLAINE BOEUF, MÉDECIN · ETIENNE DALMAIS, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 8 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DU PRADIAN	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	2	GYMNASE CHEF LIEU · GYMNASE DE LA PLAINE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	3	CREDIT AGRICOLE DES SAVOIE · CAISSE CREDIT MUTUEL DE BASSENS	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Hairdresser	5	ENTRE NOUS COIFFURE · PASCAL COSTE COIFFURE · SENSO · PEREIRA DA SILVA TAISSA	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 3,548 2023: 5,175 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 3,863 (2012) → 5,175 (2023): 34 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 3,577 (1990) → 5,175 (2023): 44.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 2,789, of which 2 % second homes and 5.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, GP Bakery — 1.2 km SEPharmacy — 1.2 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 (Saint-Alban-Leysse): 1.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bassens): 0.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Bassens): 0.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Chambéry): 1.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Bassens): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 33.5

Days at or below 0 °C 77

Muggy days a summer 0.4

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 34 days a year at or above 30 °C and 77 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CHALLES LES EAUX weather station, 3 km away at 298 m; the village itself is at 314 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at FECLAZ_SAPC, 8.2 km away at 1,328 m, over 18 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 1,014 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 1,226 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 10.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CHAMBERY, 2.7 km away at 256 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 — 73031/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73031/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73031/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73031/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73222
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73031
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73065
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
Lambres-lez-Douai	59	572 km N	4,883	49.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 36 % · winter 58 %
Leuville-sur-Orge	91	437 km NW	4,271	39	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 53 % · humidity 93 %
Valdoie	90	242 km N	5,175	49.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Séméac	65	532 km SW	5,236	53.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 47 % · humidity 50 %
Barberaz	73	2.0 km S	5,306	50.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Brou-sur-Chantereine	77	444 km NW	5,196	56.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Barberaz	73	2.0 km S	5,306	50.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Valdoie	90	242 km N	5,175	49.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Leuville-sur-Orge	91	437 km NW	4,271	39	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 53 % · humidity 93 %
Brou-sur-Chantereine	77	444 km NW	5,196	56.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Séméac	65	532 km SW	5,236	53.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 47 % · humidity 50 %
Lambres-lez-Douai	59	572 km N	4,883	49.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 36 % · winter 58 %

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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 Bassens'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
Barberaz	73	2.0 km S	5,306	50.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Alban-Leysse	73	1.6 km E	6,734	65.1	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
La Ravoire	73	3.0 km SE	9,332	65.4	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Barby	73	3.3 km E	3,772	37.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Ambilly	74	72 km N	6,355	51.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Jacob-Bellecombette	73	3.4 km SW	4,499	29.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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