Chevreuse

Yvelines · CC de la Haute Vallée de Chevreuse · INSEE 78160

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

Partly served 51.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 45 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chevreuse (INSEE 78160) is in Yvelines (78), part of CC de la Haute Vallée de Chevreuse. Population 5,502 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Centres urbains intermédiaires (level 2). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/78160-chevreuse

Vitality score

Vitality score 51.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 45 % of the 4,284 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	0.47	25	11.83
Social	0.58	20	11.57
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.47	10	4.67
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	0.59	10	5.94
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.6

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 3 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 2 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”.

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

4 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LES DELICES DE CHEVREUSE · MABOULANGE · LE MOULIN DE GABI · ATELIER GATO). ^[3,4]

2 × Butcher (boucherie) (SARL AVARUM · BALSC). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (QUANTIN · LMP CHEVREUSE). ^[3,4]

2 × Supermarket (CARREFOUR EXPRESS · UTILE). ^[3,4]

11 × Restaurant (CHEZ HIPPOLYTE · SARL B.H.C · L'OSTERIA · LES BANNIERES). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE MARIGNY). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERN PUBLIQUE IRENE JOLIOT-CURIE). ^[3]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE JEAN MOULIN · ECOLE PRIMAIRE SAINT LUBIN). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE PIERRE DE COUBERTIN). ^[3]

5 × GP (médecin généraliste) (SEGOLENE PERRILLAT-AMEDE, MÉDECIN · MARIE ANNE DUVAL-CATTANEO, MÉDECIN · PIERRE GODON, MÉDECIN · JEAN-CHARLES BELLEVAUX, MÉDECIN · TATSUSHI ORIGUCHI, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (SELARL PHARMACIE DU CHATEAU). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (CHEVREUSE AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE JEAN RACINE). ^[3]

2 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE DE SPORTS DU SIVOM · PARC DES SPORTS). ^[3]

1 × Bank (BNP PARIBAS). ^[3]

5 × Hairdresser (ESPACE COIFFURE · L AUTO COIFFEUR · LE SALON COIFFURE · CUCHET JOSEPHINE). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (CHATEAU DE MERIDON). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 4 × Restaurant, 1 × Bank, 1 × Hairdresser.

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	4	LES DELICES DE CHEVREUSE · MABOULANGE · LE MOULIN DE GABI · ATELIER GATO	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	2	SARL AVARUM · BALSC	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	QUANTIN · LMP CHEVREUSE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Supermarket	2	CARREFOUR EXPRESS · UTILE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	11	CHEZ HIPPOLYTE · SARL B.H.C · L'OSTERIA · LES BANNIERES	INSEE BPE 11 / INSEE SIRENE 17 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE MARIGNY	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERN PUBLIQUE IRENE JOLIOT-CURIE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE JEAN MOULIN · ECOLE PRIMAIRE SAINT LUBIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE PIERRE DE COUBERTIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	5	SEGOLENE PERRILLAT-AMEDE, MÉDECIN · MARIE ANNE DUVAL-CATTANEO, MÉDECIN · PIERRE GODON, MÉDECIN · JEAN-CHARLES BELLEVAUX, MÉDECIN · TATSUSHI ORIGUCHI, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 5 [3]
Pharmacy	1	SELARL PHARMACIE DU CHATEAU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	CHEVREUSE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE JEAN RACINE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	2	SALLE DE SPORTS DU SIVOM · PARC DES SPORTS	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	1	BNP PARIBAS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Hairdresser	5	ESPACE COIFFURE · L AUTO COIFFEUR · LE SALON COIFFURE · CUCHET JOSEPHINE	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	CHATEAU DE MERIDON	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [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: 3,409 peak 2012: 5,789 2023: 5,502 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 5,789 (2012) → 5,502 (2023): -5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 5,027 (1990) → 5,502 (2023): 9.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 2,771, of which 4 % second homes and 8.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Chevreuse): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Chevreuse): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Chevreuse): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Chevreuse): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Chevreuse): 0.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 13.6

Days at or below 0 °C 40

Muggy days a summer 1.2

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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the CHOISEL weather station, 4.1 km away at 176 m; the village itself is at 84 m. ^[9]

The village sits 92 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at TOUSSUS LE NOBLE, 7 km away at 154 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 70 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 713 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at CHOISEL, 4.1 km away at 176 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 78160/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 78160/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 78160/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 78160/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 78160
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
Le Cendre	63	343 km S	5,415	57.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Fenain	59	206 km NE	5,441	41.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Beynost	01	389 km SE	5,198	59.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 64 % · humidity 86 %
L'Hôpital	57	346 km E	5,183	48.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Fleury-sur-Orne	14	184 km W	5,941	61.4	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Douvrin	62	208 km N	5,867	43.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 96 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Fleury-sur-Orne	14	184 km W	5,941	61.4	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Fenain	59	206 km NE	5,441	41.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Douvrin	62	208 km N	5,867	43.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 96 %
Le Cendre	63	343 km S	5,415	57.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
L'Hôpital	57	346 km E	5,183	48.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Beynost	01	389 km SE	5,198	59.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 64 % · 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 Chevreuse'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
Fenain	59	206 km NE	5,441	41.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
L'Hôpital	57	346 km E	5,183	48.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Louvroil	59	222 km NE	6,294	59.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Gaillon	27	72 km NW	6,746	66.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis	78	7.1 km NW	7,276	55.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Le Val d'Hazey	27	73 km NW	5,111	49.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

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