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Froidefontaine

Territoire de Belfort · CC du Sud Territoire · INSEE 90051

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

No daily shops 19/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 28 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Froidefontaine (INSEE 90051) is in Territoire de Belfort (90), part of CC du Sud Territoire. Population 433 (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/90051-froidefontaine

Vitality score

Vitality score 19/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 28 % of the 17,915 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0.63106.32
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.49104.91
Housing mix0.9854.91

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 1 of 3
Health 0 of 4
Public services 0 of 1
Culture 0 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. [3,4]

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

1 × Hairdresser. [3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE ELEMENTAIREINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser1INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 408 peak 2007: 462 2023: 433 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 462 (2012) → 433 (2023): -6.3 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 437 (1990) → 433 (2023): -0.9 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 216, of which 0.9 % second homes and 3.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmBakery — 2.0 km W (Bourogne)Food shop — 2.1 km W (Bourogne)Pharmacy — 2.1 km W (Bourogne)GP — 2.2 km SW (Morvillars)
In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.0 km WFood shop — 2.1 km WPharmacy — 2.1 km WGP — 2.2 km SW 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 (Bourogne): 2 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Bourogne): 2.1 km to the west (straight line). [8]

GP (Morvillars): 2.2 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Bourogne): 2.1 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Froidefontaine): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). [10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 72 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the NOVILLARD_SAPC weather station, 4.3 km away at 366 m; the village itself is at 334 m. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at DORANS, 8.6 km away at 401 m, over 16 summers. [11]

That station sits 67 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.06 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [11]

An average of 935 mm of rain a year, spread over 129 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at NOVILLARD_SAPC, 4.3 km away at 366 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 90051/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 90051/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 90051/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 90051/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 90017
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 90072
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 90051
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Waville54177 km NW43319.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Quierzy02358 km NW42821.2Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Lesdain59389 km NW43218.9No daily shopsno figures
Bantouzelle59390 km NW44121.9Few servicesno figures
Pringy51225 km NW43819.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Grainville-sur-Ry76467 km NW43820.7Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Waville54177 km NW43319.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Pringy51225 km NW43819.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Quierzy02358 km NW42821.2Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Lesdain59389 km NW43218.9No daily shopsno figures
Bantouzelle59390 km NW44121.9Few servicesno figures
Grainville-sur-Ry76467 km NW43820.7Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 46 % · 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 Froidefontaine'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Waville54177 km NW43319.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Mulhausen67153 km N43521Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Chambeire21131 km W42024.9Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Obermorschwiller6829 km E40920.4Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Longchamp8880 km NW45923.9Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Charmoille7064 km W47321.9Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %