Bassy

Identity

Bassy (INSEE 74029) is in Haute-Savoie (74), part of CC Usses et Rhône. Population 423 (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/74029-bassy

Vitality score

Vitality score 35.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 78 % of the 17,939 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

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

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (LE ROUX SYLVAIN). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LA GRANGE). ^[3,4]

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Restaurant.

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

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 442 (2012) → 423 (2023): -4.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 312 (1990) → 423 (2023): 35.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 247, of which 13.4 % second homes and 8.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Seyssel): 2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bassy): 0.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Seyssel): 2.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Seyssel): 2.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Bassy): 0.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

An average of 32 days a year at or above 30 °C and 45 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the USINENS weather station, 3.3 km away at 417 m; the village itself is at 325 m. ^[11]

The village sits 92 m below 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 3 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at USINENS SA, 3.9 km away at 452 m, over 20 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 127 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 1,144 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 9.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at USINENS, 3.3 km away at 417 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 — 74029/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74029/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74029/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74029/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 74269
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 74029
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 01407
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024