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Blaisy-Bas

Côte-d'Or · CC Ouche et Montagne · INSEE 21080

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

Few services 22.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 23 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Blaisy-Bas (INSEE 21080) is in Côte-d'Or (21), part of CC Ouche et Montagne. Population 677 (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/21080-blaisy-bas

Vitality score

Vitality score 22.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 23 % of the 16,558 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 & culture0.3251.58
Population trend0.68106.77
Housing mix0.8754.33

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 1 of 1
Culture 0 of 2
Sport 0 of 2
Everyday services 0 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. [3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (BLAISY BAS AP). [3]

1 × Hotel (L'OREE DES CHARMES // L'EVYDENCE). [3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUEINSEE 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 postale1BLAISY BAS APINSEE BPE 1 [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]
Hotel1L'OREE DES CHARMES // L'EVYDENCEINSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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: 470 peak 2012: 712 2023: 677 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 712 (2012) → 677 (2023): -4.9 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 575 (1990) → 677 (2023): 17.7 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 359, of which 6.7 % second homes and 8.1 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmGP — 6.7 km S (Sombernon)Food shop — 6.8 km SW (Sombernon)Pharmacy — 6.9 km S (Sombernon)Bakery — 7.3 km S (Sombernon)
In the commune Primary school GP — 6.7 km SFood shop — 6.8 km SWPharmacy — 6.9 km SBakery — 7.3 km S 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 (Sombernon): 7.3 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Sombernon): 6.8 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

GP (Sombernon): 6.7 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Sombernon): 6.9 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Blaisy-Bas): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). [9]

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 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 54 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the ST-MARTIN-DU-M weather station, 4.7 km away at 578 m; the village itself is at 414 m. [10]

The village sits 164 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.55 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. [10]

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

Humidity measured at ST-MARTIN-DU-M, 4.7 km away at 578 m, over 30 summers. [10]

That station sits 164 m above 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 991 mm of rain a year, spread over 138 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at TURCEY, 4.3 km away at 365 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

What property sold for

43 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 160,000 € — 1,624 € per m² of built surface. [11]

The median across Côte-d'Or is 1,892 € per m², so this commune sits below it. [11]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21080/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21080/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21080/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21080/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 21611
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 21080
  10. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
  11. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Griesbach-au-Val68197 km NE67822.4Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Diéval62379 km NW70921.8Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Offwiller67269 km NE80719.3No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Gosselming57231 km NE57221.7Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Prouzel80329 km NW57222.6Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Allery80356 km NW84322.4Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
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CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Griesbach-au-Val68197 km NE67822.4Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Gosselming57231 km NE57221.7Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Offwiller67269 km NE80719.3No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Prouzel80329 km NW57222.6Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Allery80356 km NW84322.4Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Diéval62379 km NW70921.8Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · 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 Blaisy-Bas'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
Diéval62379 km NW70921.8Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Prouzel80329 km NW57222.6Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Le Gué-de-Longroi28257 km NW86022.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Louvemont52132 km N69427.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Hondainville60283 km NW70421.4Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Valdampierre60292 km NW94122.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %