Leschaux

Haute-Savoie · CA du Grand Annecy · INSEE 74148

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

Few services 39.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 91 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Leschaux (INSEE 74148) is in Haute-Savoie (74), part of CA du Grand Annecy. Population 328 (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/74148-leschaux

Vitality score

Vitality score 39.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 91 % of the 17,972 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	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.68	5	3.39

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE LESCHAUX	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 LESCHAUX	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 169 2023: 328 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 272 (2012) → 328 (2023): 20.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 214 (1990) → 328 (2023): 53.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 199, of which 16.1 % second homes and 4.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 3.6 km SGP — 5.7 km WFood shop — 5.9 km SPharmacy — 7.4 km E 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 (Bellecombe-en-Bauges): 3.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lescheraines): 5.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Gruffy): 5.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Doussard): 7.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Leschaux): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 3.8▸

Days at or below 0 °C 81.2

Muggy days a summer 0

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 4 days a year at or above 30 °C and 81 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the CHAPELLE SAINT-MAURICE_SAPC weather station, 2.6 km away at 970 m; the village itself is at 932 m. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at MEYTHET, 17.7 km away at 455 m, over 29 summers. ^[13]

That station sits 477 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[13]

An average of 1,479 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 11.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at CHAPELLE SAINT-MAURICE_SAPC, 2.6 km away at 970 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 — 74148/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74148/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74148/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74148/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73036
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73146
INSEE BPE 2025 — 74138
INSEE BPE 2025 — 74104
INSEE BPE 2025 — 74148
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
Amponville	77	390 km NW	349	37.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Veuil	36	383 km NW	379	33.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 59 % · humidity 79 %
Bauzy	41	397 km NW	270	35.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %
Helléan	56	698 km NW	395	45.8	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 34 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-de-Bavel	01	35 km W	428	37.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 55 % · humidity 86 %
Le Crozet	42	181 km W	252	32.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 70 % · humidity 7 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Martin-de-Bavel	01	35 km W	428	37.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 55 % · humidity 86 %
Le Crozet	42	181 km W	252	32.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 70 % · humidity 7 %
Veuil	36	383 km NW	379	33.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 59 % · humidity 79 %
Amponville	77	390 km NW	349	37.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Bauzy	41	397 km NW	270	35.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %
Helléan	56	698 km NW	395	45.8	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 34 % · 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 Leschaux'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
Vernines	63	252 km W	430	32.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Omerville	95	500 km NW	327	21.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Auxelles-Haut	90	225 km N	287	24	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Imoges	51	405 km NW	330	22.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Aurières	63	250 km W	373	31.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Brenoux	48	249 km SW	384	25.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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