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Athie

Côte-d'Or · CC du Montbardois · INSEE 21029

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 11.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 43 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Athie (INSEE 21029) is in Côte-d'Or (21), part of CC du Montbardois. Population 82 (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/21029-athie

Vitality score

Vitality score 11.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 43 % of the 8,714 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
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.67106.71
Housing mix0.6453.18

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 0 of 3
Health 0 of 4
Public services 0 of 1
Culture 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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)0INSEE BPE 0 [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]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 88 peak 1999: 92 2023: 82 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 85 (2012) → 82 (2023): -3.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 70 (1990) → 82 (2023): 17.1 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 55, of which 18.2 % second homes and 18.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 2.0 km E (Viserny)Primary school — 2.0 km E (Viserny)Pharmacy — 8.7 km NE (Montbard)Food shop — 8.8 km NE (Montbard)GP — 8.9 km SW (Époisses)
Bakery — 2.0 km EPrimary school — 2.0 km EPharmacy — 8.7 km NEFood shop — 8.8 km NEGP — 8.9 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 (Viserny): 2 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Montbard): 8.8 km to the north-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Époisses): 8.9 km to the south-west (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Montbard): 8.7 km to the north-east (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Viserny): 2 km to the east (straight line). [8]

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 64 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the MONTBARD_SAPC weather station, 9 km away at 209 m; the village itself is at 217 m. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at MONTBARD_SAPC, 9 km away at 209 m, over 13 summers. [11]

An average of 928 mm of rain a year, spread over 140 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at MOUTIERS-ST-J., 2.9 km away at 277 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

What property sold for

No price figures: fewer than five comparable sales were registered here between 2021 and 2025. A median of two sales is not a median. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21029/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21029/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21029/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21029/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 21709
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 21425
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 21247
  11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
  12. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Binarville51192 km N824.7No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Seuzey55185 km NE8310No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Azeville50461 km NW7910.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 41 % · humidity 100 %
Choiseul52113 km NE807.2No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Vertamboz39156 km SE839.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Virginy51183 km N829.4No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Choiseul52113 km NE807.2No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Vertamboz39156 km SE839.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Virginy51183 km N829.4No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Seuzey55185 km NE8310No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Binarville51192 km N824.7No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Azeville50461 km NW7910.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 41 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Athie'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
Vertamboz39156 km SE839.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Éclance1087 km N866.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Neuvilley39126 km SE8715.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Montigny-Saint-Barthélemy2116 km S819.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saponcourt70137 km E7810.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Foucrainville27265 km NW8913.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %