Clarafond-Arcine

Haute-Savoie · CC Usses et Rhône · INSEE 74077

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Few services 34.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 43 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Clarafond-Arcine (INSEE 74077) is in Haute-Savoie (74), part of CC Usses et Rhône. Population 1,068 (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 34.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 43 % of the 13,922 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.39	20	7.77
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.82	5	4.1

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE BLANC METEIL). ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (CAFE RESTAURANT FRUCTUS · PIZZAKO · O'DELI'SA). ^[3,4]

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

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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)	1	LE BLANC METEIL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	CAFE RESTAURANT FRUCTUS · PIZZAKO · O'DELI'SA	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE CLARAFOND ARCINE	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	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: 321 2023: 1,068 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 909 (2012) → 1,068 (2023): 17.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 550 (1990) → 1,068 (2023): 94.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 534, of which 9 % second homes and 6.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 1.6 km NWFood shop — 1.9 km WGP — 2.3 km WPharmacy — 5.7 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 (Clarafond-Arcine): 1.6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Chêne-en-Semine): 1.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Chêne-en-Semine): 2.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Frangy): 5.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Clarafond-Arcine): 0.2 km to the south (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. ^[11]

Measured at the USINENS SA weather station, 6.8 km away at 452 m; the village itself is at 499 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at USINENS SA, 6.8 km away at 452 m, over 20 summers. ^[11]

An average of 995 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 8.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at USINENS SA, 6.8 km away at 452 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 — 74077/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74077/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74077/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74077/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 74077
INSEE BPE 2025 — 74068
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
Fleury	50	621 km NW	1,101	33.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Billy	41	360 km NW	1,118	31.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Josse	40	622 km SW	1,018	34.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 100 % · winter 70 % · humidity 0 %
Andilly	74	13 km E	1,013	30	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Loupiac	33	509 km W	1,093	25.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 70 % · humidity 29 %
Ambres	81	413 km SW	1,033	32.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Andilly	74	13 km E	1,013	30	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Billy	41	360 km NW	1,118	31.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Ambres	81	413 km SW	1,033	32.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %
Loupiac	33	509 km W	1,093	25.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 70 % · humidity 29 %
Fleury	50	621 km NW	1,101	33.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Josse	40	622 km SW	1,018	34.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 100 % · winter 70 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Clarafond-Arcine'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
Billy	41	360 km NW	1,118	31.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Rosoy	89	303 km NW	1,072	33.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Denis-sur-Loire	41	384 km NW	904	34.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Escoutoux	63	182 km W	1,369	32.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Savigny	74	5.3 km E	1,041	31	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Heudreville-sur-Eure	27	491 km NW	1,065	21.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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