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Savigny-Poil-Fol

Nièvre · CC Bazois Loire Morvan · INSEE 58274

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

No daily shops 9.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 22 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Savigny-Poil-Fol (INSEE 58274) is in Nièvre (58), part of CC Bazois Loire Morvan. Population 108 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/58274-savigny-poil-fol

Vitality score

Vitality score 9.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 22 % of the 11,270 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
Health0.32103.16
Public & culture050
Population trend0.31103.12
Housing mix0.4252.08

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 1 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]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (PHILIPPE DABON, MÉDECIN). [3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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)1PHILIPPE DABON, MÉDECININSEE BPE 1 [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: 193 2023: 108 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 134 (2012) → 108 (2023): -19.4 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 133 (1990) → 108 (2023): -18.8 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 96, of which 29.2 % second homes and 14.6 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmGP — 1.0 km SW (Savigny-Poil-Fol)Primary school — 5.2 km NW (Rémilly)Food shop — 8.4 km E (Luzy)Bakery — 8.8 km E (Luzy)Pharmacy — 8.9 km E (Luzy)
GP — 1.0 km SWPrimary school — 5.2 km NWFood shop — 8.4 km EBakery — 8.8 km EPharmacy — 8.9 km E 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 (Luzy): 8.8 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Luzy): 8.4 km to the east (straight line). [8]

GP (Savigny-Poil-Fol): 1 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Luzy): 8.9 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Rémilly): 5.2 km to the north-west (straight line). [10]

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the AVREE weather station, 6 km away at 302 m; the village itself is at 313 m. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at AVREE, 6 km away at 302 m, over 15 summers. [11]

An average of 931 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at AVREE, 6 km away at 302 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 58274/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 58274/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 58274/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 58274/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 58149
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 58274
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 58221
  11. 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
Brucourt14402 km NW12914.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 70 % · humidity 86 %
Ayat-sur-Sioule63110 km SW13813.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 41 % · humidity 93 %
Montgaudry61316 km NW1087.8No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Batilly-en-Puisaye45118 km NW10810No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 93 %
Viviers89114 km N1066.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Cazalrenoux11426 km S10514.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 64 % · humidity 71 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Ayat-sur-Sioule63110 km SW13813.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 41 % · humidity 93 %
Viviers89114 km N1066.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Batilly-en-Puisaye45118 km NW10810No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 93 %
Montgaudry61316 km NW1087.8No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Brucourt14402 km NW12914.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 70 % · humidity 86 %
Cazalrenoux11426 km S10514.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 64 % · 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 Savigny-Poil-Fol'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
Viviers89114 km N1066.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Rouziers15255 km SW1077No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Montlevicq36138 km W1066.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Aize36167 km W1146.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Corvol-d'Embernard5866 km NW11710.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Tardes23136 km SW1196No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %