Chessenaz

Haute-Savoie · CC Usses et Rhône · INSEE 74071

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

Few services 23.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 67 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chessenaz (INSEE 74071) is in Haute-Savoie (74), part of CC Usses et Rhône. Population 239 (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 23.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 67 % of the 17,009 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.73	5	3.65

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE FOURNIL). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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	1	LE FOURNIL	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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	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 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 125 2023: 239 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 189 (2012) → 239 (2023): 26.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 107 (1990) → 239 (2023): 123.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 126, of which 13.5 % second homes and 11.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 2.7 km SEBakery — 2.8 km SEGP — 2.8 km SEPrimary school — 2.9 km SEPharmacy — 2.9 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 (Frangy): 2.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Frangy): 2.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Frangy): 2.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Frangy): 2.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Frangy): 2.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.2

Days at or below 0 °C 50.1

Muggy days a summer 1.4

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the USINENS SA weather station, 4.8 km away at 452 m; the village itself is at 440 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at USINENS SA, 4.8 km away at 452 m, over 20 summers. ^[9]

An average of 995 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 8.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at USINENS SA, 4.8 km away at 452 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74071/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74071/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74071/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74071/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 74131
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
His	31	511 km SW	235	20.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 89 % · humidity 79 %
Montastruc	65	540 km SW	237	14.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Roman	26	154 km S	235	23	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Kiffis	68	192 km NE	238	20.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 74 %
Saint-Ouen-en-Champagne	72	508 km NW	237	23	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 86 %
Treffort	38	126 km S	249	26.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Treffort	38	126 km S	249	26.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Roman	26	154 km S	235	23	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Kiffis	68	192 km NE	238	20.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 74 %
Saint-Ouen-en-Champagne	72	508 km NW	237	23	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 86 %
His	31	511 km SW	235	20.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 89 % · humidity 79 %
Montastruc	65	540 km SW	237	14.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Chessenaz'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
Barbirey-sur-Ouche	21	161 km NW	259	23	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Diou	36	317 km W	256	20	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Louville-la-Chenard	28	402 km NW	245	18.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Vers-sous-Sellières	39	92 km N	223	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Mélisey	89	251 km NW	223	12.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Auvet-et-la-Chapelotte	70	167 km N	237	18.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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