Valforêt

Côte-d'Or · CC de Gevrey-Chambertin et de Nuits-Saint-Georges · INSEE 21178

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

Few services 23.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 55 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Valforêt (INSEE 21178) is in Côte-d'Or (21), part of CC de Gevrey-Chambertin et de Nuits-Saint-Georges. Population 331 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2019-01-01 from 1 former commune: Quemigny-Poisot (21513). ^[3]

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/21178-valforet

Vitality score

Vitality score 23.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 55 % of the 18,007 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.96	10	9.65
Housing mix	0.84	5	4.22

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[4,5]

1 × Restaurant (LOVAKI). ^[4,5]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	1	LOVAKI	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 140 2023: 331 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 317 (2012) → 331 (2023): 4.4 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 226 (1990) → 331 (2023): 46.5 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 167, of which 7.8 % second homes and 6.6 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.6 km SEFood shop — 5.0 km WGP — 5.8 km SBakery — 7.1 km NPharmacy — 7.1 km N 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 (Fleurey-sur-Ouche): 7.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Gergueil): 5 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Ternant): 5.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Pharmacy (Fleurey-sur-Ouche): 7.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Chambœuf): 2.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18.2

Days at or below 0 °C 64.6

Muggy days a summer 0.5

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 65 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the MARSANNAY LA COTE weather station, 8.1 km away at 280 m; the village itself is at 389 m. ^[13]

The village sits 109 m above 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. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at DIJON-LONGVIC, 15.7 km away at 219 m, over 30 summers. ^[13]

That station sits 170 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.06 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[13]

An average of 802 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at MARSANNAY LA COTE, 8.1 km away at 280 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21178/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21178/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21178/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21178/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 21273
INSEE BPE 2025 — 21293
INSEE BPE 2025 — 21625
INSEE BPE 2025 — 21132
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
Mantenay-Montlin	01	93 km S	331	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 97 %
La Ferrière-Airoux	86	357 km W	334	20.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 69 % · humidity 79 %
Anzex	47	492 km SW	332	21	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 76 % · humidity 64 %
Fieux	47	493 km SW	323	18.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 69 % · humidity 79 %
Sigalens	33	492 km SW	342	23.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 51 % · humidity 64 %
Bouligneux	01	137 km S	318	24.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 67 % · winter 85 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Mantenay-Montlin	01	93 km S	331	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 97 %
Bouligneux	01	137 km S	318	24.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 67 % · winter 85 %
La Ferrière-Airoux	86	357 km W	334	20.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 69 % · humidity 79 %
Anzex	47	492 km SW	332	21	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 76 % · humidity 64 %
Sigalens	33	492 km SW	342	23.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 51 % · humidity 64 %
Fieux	47	493 km SW	323	18.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 69 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Valforêt'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
Marly-sur-Arroux	71	90 km SW	301	15.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Grassac	16	390 km SW	308	18.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
L'Hôpital-le-Mercier	71	116 km SW	294	18.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Fougerolles	36	241 km W	349	28.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Chapeau	03	134 km SW	231	17.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Le Fraysse	81	419 km SW	421	18.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %

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