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Poiseul-lès-Saulx

Côte-d'Or · CC des Vallées de la Tille et de l'Ignon · INSEE 21491

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

No daily shops 15.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 73 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Poiseul-lès-Saulx (INSEE 21491) is in Côte-d'Or (21), part of CC des Vallées de la Tille et de l'Ignon. Population 77 (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/21491-poiseul-les-saulx

Vitality score

Vitality score 15.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 73 % of the 8,160 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 trend11010
Housing mix0.753.5

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: 64 2023: 77 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 63 (2012) → 77 (2023): 22.2 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 51 (1990) → 77 (2023): 51 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 40, of which 15 % second homes and 2.5 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

10 km20 kmBakery — 4.1 km SW (Courtivron)Primary school — 4.4 km SE (Saulx-le-Duc)Food shop — 5.7 km SW (Moloy)Pharmacy — 10.8 km SE (Is-sur-Tille)GP — 10.9 km SE (Is-sur-Tille)
Bakery — 4.1 km SWPrimary school — 4.4 km SEFood shop — 5.7 km SWPharmacy — 10.8 km SEGP — 10.9 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 (Courtivron): 4.1 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Moloy): 5.7 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Is-sur-Tille): 10.9 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Is-sur-Tille): 10.8 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Saulx-le-Duc): 4.4 km to the south-east (straight line). [11]

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 55 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the BURE LES TEMPLIERS_SAPC weather station, 16.5 km away at 461 m; the village itself is at 426 m. [12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [12]

Humidity measured at TIL-CHATEL_SAPC, 16.6 km away at 283 m, over 18 summers. [12]

That station sits 143 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.06 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [12]

An average of 979 mm of rain a year, spread over 136 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at GRANCEY LE CHATEAU, 10.9 km away at 403 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21491/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21491/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21491/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21491/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 21208
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 21421
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 21317
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 21587
  12. 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
Archon02249 km N768.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 76 %
Gignéville8891 km NE7714.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Le Cardonnois80294 km NW7515.9No daily shopsno figures
Vezot72360 km W759.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 72 %
Écutigny2161 km SW789.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Balâtre80284 km NW7811.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Écutigny2161 km SW789.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Gignéville8891 km NE7714.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Archon02249 km N768.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 76 %
Balâtre80284 km NW7811.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Le Cardonnois80294 km NW7515.9No daily shopsno figures
Vezot72360 km W759.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 72 %

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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 Poiseul-lès-Saulx'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
Gignéville8891 km NE7714.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Écutigny2161 km SW789.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Balâtre80284 km NW7811.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Noidant-Chatenoy5238 km NE797.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Trémilly5290 km N8210.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Courlon218.8 km N7916.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %