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Lucey

Côte-d'Or · CC du Pays Châtillonnais · INSEE 21359

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 9.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 37 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lucey (INSEE 21359) is in Côte-d'Or (21), part of CC du Pays Châtillonnais. Population 56 (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/21359-lucey

Vitality score

Vitality score 9.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 37 % of the 5,649 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
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.52105.18
Housing mix0.6353.14

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), 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)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 / 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: 78 peak 1975: 80 2023: 56 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 56 (2012) → 56 (2023): 0 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 55 (1990) → 56 (2023): 1.8 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 43, of which 18.6 % second homes and 16.3 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

10 km20 kmBakery — 6.7 km SW (Leuglay)Primary school — 6.9 km SW (Voulaines-les-Templiers)GP — 8.0 km S (Recey-sur-Ource)Food shop — 9.9 km E (Rouvres-sur-Aube)Pharmacy — 12.8 km NW (Montigny-sur-Aube)
Bakery — 6.7 km SWPrimary school — 6.9 km SWGP — 8.0 km SFood shop — 9.9 km EPharmacy — 12.8 km NW 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 (Leuglay): 6.7 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Rouvres-sur-Aube): 9.9 km to the east (straight line). [9]

GP (Recey-sur-Ource): 8 km to the south (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Montigny-sur-Aube): 12.8 km to the north-west (straight line). [11]

Primary school (Voulaines-les-Templiers): 6.9 km to the south-west (straight line). [12]

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. [13]

Measured at the BURE LES TEMPLIERS_SAPC weather station, 16.1 km away at 461 m; the village itself is at 319 m. [13]

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. [13]

An average of 1,065 mm of rain a year, spread over 144 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. [13]

Rainfall measured at GURGY-LA-VILLE, 5.9 km away at 301 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21359/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21359/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21359/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21359/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 21346
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 52439
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 21519
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 21432
  12. INSEE BPE 2025 — 21717
  13. 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
Éringes2142 km SW567.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 55 %
Meurival02186 km NW5610.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 74 %
Moitron2120 km S579.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 84 %
Baon8955 km W5813.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 99 %
Chardeny08175 km N5514.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 70 %
Vernonvilliers1053 km N595.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 80 %
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CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Moitron2120 km S579.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 84 %
Éringes2142 km SW567.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 55 %
Vernonvilliers1053 km N595.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 80 %
Baon8955 km W5813.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 99 %
Chardeny08175 km N5514.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 70 %
Meurival02186 km NW5610.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 74 %

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