Bellefond

Côte-d'Or · CC Norge et Tille · INSEE 21059

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

Few services 37.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 59 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bellefond (INSEE 21059) is in Côte-d'Or (21), part of CC Norge et Tille. Population 918 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/21059-bellefond

Vitality score

Vitality score 37.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 59 % of the 14,849 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.43	10	4.32
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.86	10	8.56
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.85

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 1 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (DESIVOIRE). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (MARIE GRAILLE, MÉDECIN · TIFFANY GUICHARD, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

2 × Hairdresser (GHISLAINE COIFFURE A DOMICILE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	DESIVOIRE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	MARIE GRAILLE, MÉDECIN · TIFFANY GUICHARD, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [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	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	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	2	GHISLAINE COIFFURE A DOMICILE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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: 209 2023: 918 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 763 (2012) → 918 (2023): 20.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 677 (1990) → 918 (2023): 35.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 394, of which 1.5 % second homes and 4.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school, GP Bakery — 1.6 km SWFood shop — 2.8 km SWPharmacy — 3.0 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 (Dijon): 1.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Dijon): 2.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Bellefond): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Dijon): 3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Bellefond): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 24.2

Days at or below 0 °C 62.4

Muggy days a summer 0.8

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 24 days a year at or above 30 °C and 62 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the DIJON TOISON weather station, 3.1 km away at 270 m; the village itself is at 296 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at DIJON-LONGVIC, 12.5 km away at 219 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 77 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.06 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 771 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at DIJON TOISON, 3.1 km away at 270 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21059/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21059/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21059/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21059/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 21231
INSEE BPE 2025 — 21059
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
Maresches	59	342 km N	808	30.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Aschères-le-Marché	45	243 km W	1,157	28.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 92 %
Hauteville-lès-Dijon	21	6.0 km W	1,195	24	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Mont-Cauvaire	76	380 km NW	898	36.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 72 % · winter 72 %
Loupershouse	57	233 km NE	904	21.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Vers-sur-Selle	80	344 km NW	929	31.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Hauteville-lès-Dijon	21	6.0 km W	1,195	24	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Loupershouse	57	233 km NE	904	21.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Aschères-le-Marché	45	243 km W	1,157	28.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 92 %
Maresches	59	342 km N	808	30.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Vers-sur-Selle	80	344 km NW	929	31.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Mont-Cauvaire	76	380 km NW	898	36.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 72 % · winter 72 %

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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 Bellefond'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
Petit-Landau	68	188 km E	822	24.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Collonges-et-Premières	21	23 km SE	1,067	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Douvres	01	156 km S	1,104	27.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Cruet	73	220 km S	1,056	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Longchamp	21	21 km SE	1,171	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Savigny-le-Sec	21	5.7 km N	901	36.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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