Franclens

Haute-Savoie · CC Usses et Rhône · INSEE 74130

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

Few services 33.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 68 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Franclens (INSEE 74130) is in Haute-Savoie (74), part of CC Usses et Rhône. Population 541 (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/74130-franclens

Vitality score

Vitality score 33.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 68 % of the 17,550 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.44

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE FRANCLENS). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE FRANCLENS	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 201 2023: 541 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 500 (2012) → 541 (2023): 8.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 305 (1990) → 541 (2023): 77.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 231, of which 5.6 % second homes and 8.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.1 km WBakery — 3.0 km SGP — 3.2 km NEPharmacy — 6.8 km N 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 (Challonges): 3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Injoux-Génissiat): 2.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Chêne-en-Semine): 3.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Valserhône): 6.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Franclens): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[12]

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. ^[13]

Measured at the USINENS SA weather station, 3.7 km away at 452 m; the village itself is at 490 m. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at USINENS SA, 3.7 km away at 452 m, over 20 summers. ^[13]

An average of 995 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 8.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at USINENS SA, 3.7 km away at 452 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74130/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74130/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74130/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74130/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 74055
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01189
INSEE BPE 2025 — 74068
INSEE BPE 2025 — 01033
INSEE BPE 2025 — 74130
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
Lucheux	80	527 km NW	521	26.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Gueltas	56	691 km W	551	28.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Le Mesnil-Guillaume	14	537 km NW	551	31.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Abraham	56	657 km W	552	30.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Aubin	40	576 km SW	498	29.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 56 % · winter 72 %
Maisoncelles-du-Maine	53	536 km NW	506	32.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Lucheux	80	527 km NW	521	26.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Maisoncelles-du-Maine	53	536 km NW	506	32.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Le Mesnil-Guillaume	14	537 km NW	551	31.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Aubin	40	576 km SW	498	29.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 56 % · winter 72 %
Saint-Abraham	56	657 km W	552	30.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Gueltas	56	691 km W	551	28.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Franclens'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
Unias	42	133 km W	469	36.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Rivarennes	36	347 km W	482	25.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Vaux-sur-Vienne	86	415 km W	538	20.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Bougligny	77	339 km NW	738	29.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Andelu	78	436 km NW	550	26.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Aubin	10	320 km NW	580	22	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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