Bellecombe-en-Bauges

Savoie · CA du Grand Chambéry · INSEE 73036

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

Partly served 41.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 75 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bellecombe-en-Bauges (INSEE 73036) is in Savoie (73), part of CA du Grand Chambéry. Population 793 (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/73036-bellecombe-en-bauges

Vitality score

Vitality score 41.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 75 % of the 15,683 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	0.32	25	7.92
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.65	5	3.27

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

3 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA HALTE DES BAUGES). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (RESTAURANT DE LA HALTE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE BELLECOMBE EN BAUGES). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Campsite.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	3	LA HALTE DES BAUGES	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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	1	RESTAURANT DE LA HALTE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE BELLECOMBE EN BAUGES	INSEE BPE 1 [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]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 408 2023: 793 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 655 (2012) → 793 (2023): 21.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 393 (1990) → 793 (2023): 101.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 452, of which 17.3 % second homes and 5.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 3.5 km SWGP — 3.7 km SWPharmacy — 5.5 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 (Bellecombe-en-Bauges): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lescheraines): 3.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Lescheraines): 3.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Le Châtelard): 5.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Bellecombe-en-Bauges): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8.4

Days at or below 0 °C 140.3▸

Muggy days a summer 0.1

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 8 days a year at or above 30 °C and 140 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LESCHERAINES weather station, 3.6 km away at 591 m; the village itself is at 847 m. ^[11]

The village sits 256 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 6.06 °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 ALLANT-NIVOSE, 9.8 km away at 1,684 m, over 16 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 837 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 1,363 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 10.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LESCHERAINES, 3.6 km away at 591 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 — 73036/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73036/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73036/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73036/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73036
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73146
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73081
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
Rochejean	25	113 km N	754	41.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 41 % · humidity 100 %
Locmalo	56	754 km NW	890	35.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Champlost	89	316 km NW	767	35.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Mollkirch	67	322 km N	874	42.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Buthiers	77	399 km NW	792	32.2	Few services	no figures
La Chapelle-du-Bois	72	503 km NW	768	36.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Rochejean	25	113 km N	754	41.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 41 % · humidity 100 %
Champlost	89	316 km NW	767	35.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Mollkirch	67	322 km N	874	42.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Buthiers	77	399 km NW	792	32.2	Few services	no figures
La Chapelle-du-Bois	72	503 km NW	768	36.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Locmalo	56	754 km NW	890	35.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 0 % · 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 Bellecombe-en-Bauges'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
Arith	73	5.1 km SW	456	40.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Les Gras	25	143 km N	817	45.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Les Combes	25	150 km N	777	32.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Le Châtelard	73	6.3 km S	686	52.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Vaux-et-Chantegrue	25	120 km N	689	41	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Remoray-Boujeons	25	115 km N	466	33.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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