Saint-Mesmin

Côte-d'Or · CC des Terres d'Auxois · INSEE 21563

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

Few services 20.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 82 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Mesmin (INSEE 21563) is in Côte-d'Or (21), part of CC des Terres d'Auxois. Population 109 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 20.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 82 % of the 11,356 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.

Component	Value (0–1)	Weight	Contribution
Daily food	0	25	0
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.74	10	7.39
Housing mix	0.74	5	3.7

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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

Type	Count	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0	INSEE 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: 98 peak 2012: 147 2023: 109 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 147 (2012) → 109 (2023): -25.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 88 (1990) → 109 (2023): 23.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 77, of which 13 % second homes and 16.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 4.0 km SEGP — 5.0 km SEPharmacy — 5.3 km SEBakery — 5.5 km SEPrimary school — 5.5 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 (Sombernon): 5.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sombernon): 4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Sombernon): 5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Sombernon): 5.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Sombernon): 5.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 10.2

Days at or below 0 °C 58.5

Muggy days a summer 0.5

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 10 days a year at or above 30 °C and 59 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the ST-MARTIN-DU-M weather station, 11.7 km away at 578 m; the village itself is at 486 m. ^[9]

The village sits 92 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. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at ST-MARTIN-DU-M, 11.7 km away at 578 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 92 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.06 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 949 mm of rain a year, spread over 135 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at GROSBOIS-EN-MONTAGNE, 4.9 km away at 376 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21563/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21563/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21563/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21563/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 21611
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.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Villebramar	47	449 km SW	109	15.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 73 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Gilles-des-Marais	61	421 km W	106	18.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Poullignac	16	418 km SW	107	18.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 73 % · humidity 64 %
Camou-Cihigue	64	640 km SW	107	16.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 69 % · winter 55 %
Fornex	09	535 km SW	104	15.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 28 % · winter 50 %
Monclar-sur-Losse	32	541 km SW	111	20.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 72 % · humidity 36 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Poullignac	16	418 km SW	107	18.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 73 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Gilles-des-Marais	61	421 km W	106	18.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Villebramar	47	449 km SW	109	15.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 73 % · humidity 64 %
Fornex	09	535 km SW	104	15.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 28 % · winter 50 %
Monclar-sur-Losse	32	541 km SW	111	20.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 72 % · humidity 36 %
Camou-Cihigue	64	640 km SW	107	16.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 69 % · winter 55 %

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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-Mesmin'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.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
They-sous-Montfort	88	140 km NE	121	18.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Les Moutiers-en-Auge	14	387 km NW	130	18.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Corfélix	51	181 km NW	109	16.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Euvy	51	160 km N	80	14.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Lumeau	28	231 km NW	138	15.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Papleux	02	303 km N	114	22.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

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