Saint-Blaise

Haute-Savoie · CC du Pays de Cruseilles · INSEE 74228

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

Few services 26.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 57 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Blaise (INSEE 74228) is in Haute-Savoie (74), part of CC du Pays de Cruseilles. Population 383 (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/74228-saint-blaise

Vitality score

Vitality score 26.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 57 % of the 17,999 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.86	5	4.32

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 of 3

Lodging 1 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LA CLE DES CHAMPS). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (HAMEAU DU PERE NOEL RP). ^[3]

1 × Hotel (HOTEL REY). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[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	LA CLE DES CHAMPS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	HAMEAU DU PERE NOEL RP	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	HOTEL REY	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 118 2023: 383 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 350 (2012) → 383 (2023): 9.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 132 (1990) → 383 (2023): 190.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 191, of which 6.8 % second homes and 7.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 1.1 km NWBakery — 1.5 km SPharmacy — 3.4 km NFood shop — 3.6 km NGP — 3.8 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 (Copponex): 1.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Beaumont): 3.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Cruseilles): 3.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Beaumont): 3.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Andilly): 1.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 7.3

Days at or below 0 °C 100.7▸

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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 101 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ARCHAMPS weather station, 8.4 km away at 560 m; the village itself is at 864 m. ^[12]

The village sits 304 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, 15.3 km away at 455 m, over 29 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 409 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 1,307 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 10.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at BEAUMONT, 3.3 km away at 690 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74228/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74228/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74228/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74228/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 74088
INSEE BPE 2025 — 74031
INSEE BPE 2025 — 74096
INSEE BPE 2025 — 74009
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
Oyrières	70	168 km N	365	19.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 39 % · humidity 86 %
Grand-Rullecourt	62	537 km NW	383	21.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 19 % · humidity 93 %
Dercy	02	442 km NW	392	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 42 % · humidity 93 %
Montigny-Mornay-Villeneuve-sur-Vingeanne	21	174 km N	381	22.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Les Cabannes	81	394 km SW	379	25.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 18 % · winter 8 %
Ville-Dommange	51	384 km NW	407	22	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 57 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Oyrières	70	168 km N	365	19.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 39 % · humidity 86 %
Montigny-Mornay-Villeneuve-sur-Vingeanne	21	174 km N	381	22.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Ville-Dommange	51	384 km NW	407	22	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 57 % · humidity 93 %
Les Cabannes	81	394 km SW	379	25.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 18 % · winter 8 %
Dercy	02	442 km NW	392	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 42 % · humidity 93 %
Grand-Rullecourt	62	537 km NW	383	21.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 19 % · 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 Saint-Blaise'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
Chamesol	25	154 km N	383	32.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Harreberg	57	300 km N	369	10.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Gorgon-Main	25	108 km N	250	16.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Bourbach-le-Haut	68	205 km N	408	31.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Les Paroches	55	319 km N	413	13.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Bessamorel	43	188 km SW	432	16.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

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