Saint-Cassin

Savoie · CA du Grand Chambéry · INSEE 73228

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

Few services 35.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 49 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Cassin (INSEE 73228) is in Savoie (73), part of CA du Grand Chambéry. Population 1,046 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 35.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 49 % of the 14,063 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	0.59	20	11.7
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.75

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (LA VILLA DU LAC · ROTISSERIE DU VAL GELON). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

2 × Hairdresser (GIROUD MARIE-ANNE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, 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	3	LA VILLA DU LAC · ROTISSERIE DU VAL GELON	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	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	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	2	GIROUD MARIE-ANNE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 415 2023: 1,046 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 740 (2012) → 1,046 (2023): 41.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 625 (1990) → 1,046 (2023): 67.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 441, of which 2.5 % second homes and 5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.4 km NEFood shop — 2.4 km NGP — 2.5 km NPharmacy — 2.5 km N 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 (Jacob-Bellecombette): 2.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Cognin): 2.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Chambéry): 2.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Cognin): 2.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Cassin): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 23.1

Days at or below 0 °C 91

Muggy days a summer 0.9

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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 91 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the CHALLES LES EAUX weather station, 6.7 km away at 298 m; the village itself is at 486 m. ^[12]

The village sits 188 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at LAC AIGUEBELETTE, 8.1 km away at 375 m, over 17 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 111 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,424 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 11.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ST-CASSIN, 0.8 km away at 550 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 — 73228/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73228/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73228/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73228/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73137
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73087
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73065
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73228
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-Genouph	37	454 km NW	1,019	27.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 38 % · humidity 93 %
Izel-lès-Équerchin	62	579 km N	1,040	31.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 35 % · humidity 100 %
Mouliets-et-Villemartin	33	470 km W	1,041	31	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 19 % · humidity 64 %
Auriac-sur-Vendinelle	31	393 km SW	1,087	32	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 28 % · humidity 50 %
Sainte-Gemme-Moronval	28	491 km NW	1,114	36.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 32 % · humidity 100 %
Vieux-Reng	59	550 km N	938	35.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 69 % · winter 45 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Auriac-sur-Vendinelle	31	393 km SW	1,087	32	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 28 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Genouph	37	454 km NW	1,019	27.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 38 % · humidity 93 %
Mouliets-et-Villemartin	33	470 km W	1,041	31	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 19 % · humidity 64 %
Sainte-Gemme-Moronval	28	491 km NW	1,114	36.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 32 % · humidity 100 %
Vieux-Reng	59	550 km N	938	35.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 69 % · winter 45 %
Izel-lès-Équerchin	62	579 km N	1,040	31.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 35 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Saint-Cassin'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
Montagnole	73	1.2 km E	1,038	32.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Le Passage	38	30 km W	983	34.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Torchefelon	38	38 km W	838	32.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Montrodat	48	229 km SW	1,174	25.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Blandine	38	35 km W	1,039	20.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Succieu	38	43 km W	777	31.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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