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Gurgy-la-Ville

Côte-d'Or · CC du Pays Châtillonnais · INSEE 21312

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

No daily shops 10.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 58 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Gurgy-la-Ville (INSEE 21312) is in Côte-d'Or (21), part of CC du Pays Châtillonnais. Population 26 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). [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/21312-gurgy-la-ville

Vitality score

Vitality score 10.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 58 % of the 1,582 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
Social0.32206.32
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.08100.78
Housing mix0.3351.67

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 1 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. [3,4]

1 × Café / bar. [4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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 / bar1INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 77 2023: 26 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 37 (2012) → 26 (2023): -29.7 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 45 (1990) → 26 (2023): -42.2 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 33, of which 33.3 % second homes and 27.3 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

10 km20 kmFood shop — 4.0 km E (Rouvres-sur-Aube)Bakery — 9.7 km SW (Recey-sur-Ource)GP — 9.7 km SW (Recey-sur-Ource)Primary school — 9.8 km SW (Recey-sur-Ource)Pharmacy — 11.5 km SE (Auberive)
Food shop — 4.0 km EBakery — 9.7 km SWGP — 9.7 km SWPrimary school — 9.8 km SWPharmacy — 11.5 km SE 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 (Recey-sur-Ource): 9.7 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Rouvres-sur-Aube): 4 km to the east (straight line). [9]

GP (Recey-sur-Ource): 9.7 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Auberive): 11.5 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Recey-sur-Ource): 9.8 km to the south-west (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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 43 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the BURE LES TEMPLIERS_SAPC weather station, 14.4 km away at 461 m; the village itself is at 319 m. [11]

The village sits 142 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. [11]

An average of 1,065 mm of rain a year, spread over 144 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at GURGY-LA-VILLE, 0.1 km away at 301 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21312/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21312/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21312/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21312/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 21519
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 52439
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 52023
  11. 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
Revercourt28301 km W265.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 93 %
Bancigny02227 km N264.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 76 %
Clérey-la-Côte8893 km NE252No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 70 %
Fontaines-les-Sèches2145 km W262.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 68 %
Espieilh65645 km SW252.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 74 %
Cuiry-lès-Iviers02221 km N284.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 59 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Fontaines-les-Sèches2145 km W262.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 68 %
Clérey-la-Côte8893 km NE252No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 70 %
Cuiry-lès-Iviers02221 km N284.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 59 %
Bancigny02227 km N264.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 76 %
Revercourt28301 km W265.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 93 %
Espieilh65645 km SW252.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 74 %

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