Choisy

Identity

Choisy (INSEE 74076) is in Haute-Savoie (74), part of CC Fier et Usses. Population 1,731 (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/74076-choisy

Vitality score

Vitality score 32.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 21 % of the 10,556 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 × Bakery (boulangerie) (L'AUTHENTIK). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (AUBERGE LE BIEN ALLER). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (CHOISY AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE CHOISY CHEF-LIEU). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (BYTHIYA). ^[3,4]

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

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

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 1,544 (2012) → 1,731 (2023): 12.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,068 (1990) → 1,731 (2023): 62.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 815, of which 4.5 % second homes and 5.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Choisy): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Balme-de-Sillingy): 2.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Sillingy): 4.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Fillière): 6.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Choisy): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

An average of 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 90 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the MEYTHET weather station, 7.6 km away at 455 m; the village itself is at 621 m. ^[12]

The village sits 166 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 0 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at MEYTHET, 7.6 km away at 455 m, over 29 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 166 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 1,207 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 9.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at CERCIER, 4.6 km away at 492 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74076/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74076/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74076/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74076/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 74076
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 74026
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 74272
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 74282
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024