Saulon-la-Chapelle

Côte-d'Or · CC de Gevrey-Chambertin et de Nuits-Saint-Georges · INSEE 21585

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink.

Few services 30.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 31 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saulon-la-Chapelle (INSEE 21585) is in Côte-d'Or (21), part of CC de Gevrey-Chambertin et de Nuits-Saint-Georges. Population 1,031 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/21585-saulon-la-chapelle

Vitality score

Vitality score 30.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 31 % of the 14,108 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.39	10	3.93
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.77	10	7.73
Housing mix	1	5	4.98

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 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”.

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE RPI). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE RPI). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CHRISTIAN MARY, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (LE VILLAGE). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MARC BRACHET). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE MULTISPORTS). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (DUO COIFFURE · ROUX MARINETTE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE RPI	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE RPI	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	CHRISTIAN MARY, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	LE VILLAGE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MARC BRACHET	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE MULTISPORTS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	2	DUO COIFFURE · ROUX MARINETTE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 865 peak 2007: 1,048 2023: 1,031 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,041 (2012) → 1,031 (2023): -1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 810 (1990) → 1,031 (2023): 27.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 525, of which 0.2 % second homes and 7.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 2.3 km S 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 (Saulon-la-Chapelle): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Noiron-sous-Gevrey): 2.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saulon-la-Chapelle): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saulon-la-Chapelle): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saulon-la-Chapelle): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 19.6

Days at or below 0 °C 60.3

Muggy days a summer 1.3

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 20 days a year at or above 30 °C and 60 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the DIJON-LONGVIC weather station, 5.9 km away at 219 m; the village itself is at 207 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at DIJON-LONGVIC, 5.9 km away at 219 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 741 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at DIJON-LONGVIC, 5.9 km away at 219 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21585/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21585/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21585/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21585/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 21585
INSEE BPE 2025 — 21458
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
Connantre	51	189 km NW	1,011	32.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Til-Châtel	21	34 km N	1,113	32.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Longeault-Pluvault	21	12 km E	1,174	36.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Étrœungt	59	328 km N	1,233	28.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Courcy	51	248 km N	1,240	30.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Marcelcave	80	347 km NW	1,302	37.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Longeault-Pluvault	21	12 km E	1,174	36.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Til-Châtel	21	34 km N	1,113	32.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Connantre	51	189 km NW	1,011	32.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Courcy	51	248 km N	1,240	30.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Étrœungt	59	328 km N	1,233	28.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Marcelcave	80	347 km NW	1,302	37.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Saulon-la-Chapelle'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
Longeault-Pluvault	21	12 km E	1,174	36.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Étrechet	36	255 km W	998	44.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Delme	57	210 km NE	1,166	48.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Docelles	88	154 km NE	856	45.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Asnières-lès-Dijon	21	19 km N	1,310	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Einville-au-Jard	54	191 km NE	1,053	33.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

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