Gruffy

Identity

Gruffy (INSEE 74138) is in Haute-Savoie (74), part of CA du Grand Annecy. Population 1,504 (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/74138-gruffy

Vitality score

Vitality score 43.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 58 % of the 11,608 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) (AUX SOURCES DU PAIN). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (ABIME). ^[3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE INTERCOMMUNALE GRUFFY). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE GEORGES DUFFAUD GRUFFY). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (INGRID BOYER, MÉDECIN · JEROME PASSANANTE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

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

2 × Hairdresser (LAETITIA COIFFURE MIXTE A DOMICILE · ANNICOIFF'). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 1,494 (2012) → 1,504 (2023): 0.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 833 (1990) → 1,504 (2023): 80.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 704, of which 3.3 % second homes and 7.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Gruffy): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Cusy): 3.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Gruffy): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Alby-sur-Chéran): 4.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Gruffy): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

An average of 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CHAPELLE SAINT-MAURICE_SAPC weather station, 7.6 km away at 970 m; the village itself is at 580 m. ^[11]

The village sits 390 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 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at MEYTHET, 15.9 km away at 455 m, over 29 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 125 m below 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 1,479 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 11.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CHAPELLE SAINT-MAURICE_SAPC, 7.6 km away at 970 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74138/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74138/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74138/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74138/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 74138
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 74097
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 74002
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024