Verthemex

Savoie · CC de Yenne · INSEE 73313

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

Few services 23.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 65 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Verthemex (INSEE 73313) is in Savoie (73), part of CC de Yenne. Population 244 (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 23.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 65 % of the 17,108 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.71	5	3.56

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 124 2023: 244 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 175 (2012) → 244 (2023): 39.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 127 (1990) → 244 (2023): 92.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 132, of which 14.4 % second homes and 7.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 3.8 km SBakery — 3.9 km SFood shop — 4.0 km SPharmacy — 7.4 km SE 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 (Novalaise): 3.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Novalaise): 4 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Novalaise): 3.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (La Motte-Servolex): 7.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Verthemex): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 17.2

Days at or below 0 °C 104.2▸

Muggy days a summer 0.5

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 17 days a year at or above 30 °C and 104 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the NOVALAISE weather station, 3.7 km away at 460 m; the village itself is at 655 m. ^[11]

The village sits 195 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 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at MONT DU CHAT, 4.3 km away at 1,496 m, over 19 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 841 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 1,423 mm of rain a year, spread over 131 days — about 10.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at NOVALAISE, 3.7 km away at 460 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 — 73313/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73313/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73313/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73313/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73191
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73179
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73313
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
Verneuil-en-Bourbonnais	03	212 km NW	239	15.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 28 % · humidity 86 %
Couret	31	488 km SW	233	18.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 36 % · humidity 64 %
La Chapelle-Rambaud	74	60 km NE	249	22.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Nubécourt	55	378 km N	253	16.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 35 % · humidity 100 %
Wambercourt	62	603 km NW	259	22.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 23 % · humidity 100 %
Savignargues	30	229 km SW	238	23.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 19 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Chapelle-Rambaud	74	60 km NE	249	22.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Verneuil-en-Bourbonnais	03	212 km NW	239	15.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 28 % · humidity 86 %
Savignargues	30	229 km SW	238	23.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 19 % · humidity 71 %
Nubécourt	55	378 km N	253	16.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 35 % · humidity 100 %
Couret	31	488 km SW	233	18.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 36 % · humidity 64 %
Wambercourt	62	603 km NW	259	22.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 23 % · 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 Verthemex'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
Pimorin	39	100 km N	209	21.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Martigna	39	85 km N	215	21.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Sonthonnax-la-Montagne	01	70 km N	293	20.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Cressia	39	103 km N	243	24.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Didier-de-Bizonnes	38	39 km SW	341	24	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Mury-Monteymond	38	47 km S	342	22	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

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