Varois-et-Chaignot

Côte-d'Or · CC Norge et Tille · INSEE 21657

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

Partly served 42.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 46 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Varois-et-Chaignot (INSEE 21657) is in Côte-d'Or (21), part of CC Norge et Tille. Population 2,094 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/21657-varois-et-chaignot

Vitality score

Vitality score 42.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 46 % of the 9,310 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.72	10	7.2
Housing mix	0.98	5	4.92

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (SARL MAISON AUBERT). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (UTILE). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (RB/IS). ^[3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE HENRI VINCENOT). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUB H VINCENOT). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (DAVID ROMAN, MÉDECIN · XAVIER GUILLOBEZ, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (VAROIS ET CHAIGNOT RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE GÉRARD DUBOIS). ^[3]

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

2 × Hairdresser (RENDA MARIE-THERESE · JARDIN SECRET). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 1 × Pharmacy, 1 × Hairdresser.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	SARL MAISON AUBERT	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]
Supermarket	1	UTILE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	2	RB/IS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE HENRI VINCENOT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUB H VINCENOT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	DAVID ROMAN, MÉDECIN · XAVIER GUILLOBEZ, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	VAROIS ET CHAIGNOT RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE GÉRARD DUBOIS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	2	RENDA MARIE-THERESE · JARDIN SECRET	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: 390 2023: 2,094 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,007 (2012) → 2,094 (2023): 4.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,717 (1990) → 2,094 (2023): 22 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 908, of which 0.8 % second homes and 3.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 3.6 km SW 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 (Varois-et-Chaignot): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Varois-et-Chaignot): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Varois-et-Chaignot): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Apollinaire): 3.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Varois-et-Chaignot): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18.8

Days at or below 0 °C 75.5

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 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 76 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the QUETIGNY weather station, 3.9 km away at 217 m; the village itself is at 233 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at DIJON-LONGVIC, 9.8 km away at 219 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 737 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at QUETIGNY, 3.9 km away at 217 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 — 21657/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21657/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21657/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 21657/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 21657
INSEE BPE 2025 — 21540
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
Pouxeux	88	137 km NE	1,947	46.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Frasne	25	95 km SE	1,975	47.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 28 % · humidity 93 %
Dettwiller	67	233 km NE	2,558	49.8	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 57 % · humidity 93 %
Muizon	51	233 km NW	2,081	46.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 47 % · humidity 100 %
Plaimpied-Givaudins	18	206 km W	2,101	54	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %
Mareuil-sur-Ourcq	60	250 km NW	1,581	39.6	Few services	no figures

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Frasne	25	95 km SE	1,975	47.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 28 % · humidity 93 %
Pouxeux	88	137 km NE	1,947	46.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Plaimpied-Givaudins	18	206 km W	2,101	54	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %
Muizon	51	233 km NW	2,081	46.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 47 % · humidity 100 %
Dettwiller	67	233 km NE	2,558	49.8	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 57 % · humidity 93 %
Mareuil-sur-Ourcq	60	250 km NW	1,581	39.6	Few services	no figures

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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 Varois-et-Chaignot'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
Pouxeux	88	137 km NE	1,947	46.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Château-Salins	57	193 km NE	2,296	55.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Fessenheim	68	191 km E	2,345	43.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Biesheim	68	196 km NE	2,499	54.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Arc-sur-Tille	21	4.6 km E	2,584	55.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Hambach	57	237 km NE	2,766	56.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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