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Grésigny-Sainte-Reine

Côte-d'Or · CC du Pays d'Alésia et de la Seine · INSEE 21307

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

No daily shops 17.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 60 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Grésigny-Sainte-Reine (INSEE 21307) is in Côte-d'Or (21), part of CC du Pays d'Alésia et de la Seine. Population 147 (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/21307-gresigny-sainte-reine

Vitality score

Vitality score 17.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 60 % of the 13,935 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 food0.21255.27
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.57105.65
Housing mix0.7553.76

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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”.

A food shop, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink. [3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (HUDELEY FLAVIEN). [3]

Not found in the commune: 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)1HUDELEY FLAVIENINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 167 peak 1975: 179 2023: 147 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 141 (2012) → 147 (2023): 4.3 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 138 (1990) → 147 (2023): 6.5 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 89, of which 12.4 % second homes and 10.1 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 3.1 km SW (Venarey-les-Laumes)Primary school — 3.1 km SW (Venarey-les-Laumes)Pharmacy — 3.3 km SW (Venarey-les-Laumes)GP — 3.6 km SW (Venarey-les-Laumes)
In the commune Bakery Food shop — 3.1 km SWPrimary school — 3.1 km SWPharmacy — 3.3 km SWGP — 3.6 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 (Grésigny-Sainte-Reine): 0.3 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Venarey-les-Laumes): 3.1 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Venarey-les-Laumes): 3.6 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Venarey-les-Laumes): 3.3 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Venarey-les-Laumes): 3.1 km to the south-west (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 20 days a year at or above 30 °C and 56 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the BAIGNEUX LES JUIFS weather station, 11.9 km away at 415 m; the village itself is at 255 m. [10]

The village sits 160 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 BAIGNEUX LES JUIFS, 11.9 km away at 415 m, over 12 summers. [10]

That station sits 160 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 866 mm of rain a year, spread over 136 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at VENAREY LES LAU, 3.6 km away at 240 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21307/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21307/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21307/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21307/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 21307
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 21663
  10. 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
Roffey8959 km NW14815.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Amel-sur-l'Étang55208 km NE15318.6No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Tocqueville27353 km NW14016.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Arnicourt08223 km N14818.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Montot7084 km E13920.7Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Besain39130 km SE15917.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 16 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Roffey8959 km NW14815.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Montot7084 km E13920.7Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Besain39130 km SE15917.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 16 % · humidity 93 %
Amel-sur-l'Étang55208 km NE15318.6No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Arnicourt08223 km N14818.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Tocqueville27353 km NW14016.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 62 % · 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 Grésigny-Sainte-Reine'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
Roffey8959 km NW14815.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Arnicourt08223 km N14818.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Burcy77166 km NW15010.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Mathenay39113 km SE14816.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Flavigny18144 km SW1508.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Maisoncelles-en-Gâtinais77157 km NW14114.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %