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Saint-Jean-de-Bœuf

Côte-d'Or · CC Ouche et Montagne · INSEE 21553

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

No daily shops 15.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 61 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Jean-de-Bœuf (INSEE 21553) is in Côte-d'Or (21), part of CC Ouche et Montagne. Population 102 (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/21553-saint-jean-de-boeuf

Vitality score

Vitality score 15.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 61 % of the 10,792 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 mix0.6353.13

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: 66 peak 2012: 118 2023: 102 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 118 (2012) → 102 (2023): -13.6 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 56 (1990) → 102 (2023): 82.1 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 64, of which 18.8 % second homes and 6.3 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 1.8 km W (La Bussière-sur-Ouche)Primary school — 4.2 km SW (Veuvey-sur-Ouche)Food shop — 5.8 km NE (Gergueil)GP — 5.9 km N (Gissey-sur-Ouche)Pharmacy — 10.0 km NE (Sainte-Marie-sur-Ouche)
Bakery — 1.8 km WPrimary school — 4.2 km SWFood shop — 5.8 km NEGP — 5.9 km NPharmacy — 10.0 km NE 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 (La Bussière-sur-Ouche): 1.8 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Gergueil): 5.8 km to the north-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Gissey-sur-Ouche): 5.9 km to the north (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Sainte-Marie-sur-Ouche): 10 km to the north-east (straight line). [11]

Primary school (Veuvey-sur-Ouche): 4.2 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 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 72 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [13]

Measured at the POUILLY EN AUX_SAPC weather station, 14.5 km away at 412 m; the village itself is at 507 m. [13]

The village sits 95 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 0 days a summer. [13]

Humidity measured at POUILLY EN AUX_SAPC, 14.5 km away at 412 m, over 14 summers. [13]

That station sits 95 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 1,006 mm of rain a year, spread over 139 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. [13]

Rainfall measured at DETAIN-ET-BRUANT, 6 km away at 590 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 — 21553/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21553/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21553/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21553/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 21120
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 21293
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 21300
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 21559
  12. INSEE BPE 2025 — 21673
  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
Mouilly55212 km N10510.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 99 %
Juvancourt10100 km N1025.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 66 % · humidity 79 %
Bantheville55239 km N1026.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
La Tâche16368 km W1059.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 70 % · humidity 71 %
Dimancheville45207 km NW10512.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 65 %
Saint-Juvin08236 km N1007.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 100 % · winter 69 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Juvancourt10100 km N1025.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 66 % · humidity 79 %
Dimancheville45207 km NW10512.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 65 %
Mouilly55212 km N10510.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 99 %
Saint-Juvin08236 km N1007.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 100 % · winter 69 %
Bantheville55239 km N1026.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
La Tâche16368 km W1059.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 70 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Saint-Jean-de-Bœuf'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
Morgny-en-Thiérache02287 km N988.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Noé-les-Mallets1099 km N1046.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Desseling57234 km NE9713.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Merrey52113 km NE935.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Le Vieil-Dampierre51197 km N10211.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Éguilly-sous-Bois10104 km N11110.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %