La Tour

Haute-Savoie · CC des Quatre Rivières · INSEE 74284

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

Partly served 40/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 53 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Tour (INSEE 74284) is in Haute-Savoie (74), part of CC des Quatre Rivières. Population 1,329 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). ^[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/74284-la-tour

Vitality score

Vitality score 40/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 53 % of the 12,474 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.83	10	8.29
Housing mix	0.8	5	3.99

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 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 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AUX DELICES DE LA TOUR). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (L'HAUTE-ENTIQUE). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LA CABANE DU PECHEUR). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (CAFE DU MOLE). ^[4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA TOUR). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (FAN'HAIR). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: 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)	1	AUX DELICES DE LA TOUR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	L'HAUTE-ENTIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	2	LA CABANE DU PECHEUR	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	CAFE DU MOLE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LA TOUR	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	BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA TOUR	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	FAN'HAIR	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: 689 2023: 1,329 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,225 (2012) → 1,329 (2023): 8.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,000 (1990) → 1,329 (2023): 32.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 564, of which 10.1 % second homes and 7.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 2.0 km EPharmacy — 2.1 km NW 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 (La Tour): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Tour): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Jeoire): 2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Viuz-en-Sallaz): 2.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (La Tour): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18.4

Days at or below 0 °C 108.3▸

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 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 108 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the AYZE weather station, 6 km away at 449 m; the village itself is at 626 m. ^[11]

The village sits 177 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at BONNEVILLE, 7.6 km away at 453 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 173 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 1,508 mm of rain a year, spread over 132 days — about 11.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ST JEOIRE, 3.7 km away at 535 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 — 74284/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74284/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74284/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 74284/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 74284
INSEE BPE 2025 — 74241
INSEE BPE 2025 — 74311
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
Clavette	17	574 km W	1,406	39	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Lepuix	90	183 km N	1,115	33.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 50 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-Lacaussade	33	561 km W	1,171	41.1	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 0 % · humidity 29 %
Bierne	59	613 km NW	1,716	33.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Veyras	07	213 km SW	1,505	26	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 4 % · humidity 86 %
Porte du Ried	68	233 km N	1,971	44.3	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 49 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Lepuix	90	183 km N	1,115	33.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 50 % · humidity 93 %
Veyras	07	213 km SW	1,505	26	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 4 % · humidity 86 %
Porte du Ried	68	233 km N	1,971	44.3	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 49 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Martin-Lacaussade	33	561 km W	1,171	41.1	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 0 % · humidity 29 %
Clavette	17	574 km W	1,406	39	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Bierne	59	613 km NW	1,716	33.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %

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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 La Tour'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
Marcellaz	74	5.9 km W	1,082	44.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Les Villards-sur-Thônes	74	26 km S	1,132	38.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Lucinges	74	11 km NW	1,819	35.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Montfaucon	25	126 km N	1,622	40.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Cize	39	77 km NW	797	24.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Nâves-Parmelan	74	29 km SW	1,000	30.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

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