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Ambiévillers

Haute-Saône · CC de la Haute Comté · INSEE 70013

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

No daily shops 5.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 6 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ambiévillers (INSEE 70013) is in Haute-Saône (70), part of CC de la Haute Comté. Population 80 (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/70013-ambievillers

Vitality score

Vitality score 5.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 6 % of the 8,523 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 trend0.25102.48
Housing mix0.4752.33

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: 158 2023: 80 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 82 (2012) → 80 (2023): -2.4 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 107 (1990) → 80 (2023): -25.2 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 75, of which 26.7 % second homes and 17.3 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmGP — 2.2 km E (Fontenoy-le-Château)Bakery — 3.0 km E (Fontenoy-le-Château)Primary school — 3.0 km E (Fontenoy-le-Château)Pharmacy — 3.1 km E (Fontenoy-le-Château)Food shop — 7.5 km SW (Vauvillers)
GP — 2.2 km EBakery — 3.0 km EPrimary school — 3.0 km EPharmacy — 3.1 km EFood shop — 7.5 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 (Fontenoy-le-Château): 3 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Vauvillers): 7.5 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Fontenoy-le-Château): 2.2 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Fontenoy-le-Château): 3.1 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Fontenoy-le-Château): 3 km to the east (straight line). [8]

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 87 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the AILLEVILLERS weather station, 14.9 km away at 275 m; the village itself is at 273 m. [10]

An average of 1,000 mm of rain a year, spread over 134 days — about 7.5 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at MONTDORE, 8.5 km away at 360 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

What property sold for

15 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 75,000 € — 505 € per m² of built surface. [11]

The median across Haute-Saône is 990 € per m², so this commune sits below it. [11]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70013/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70013/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70013/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70013/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 88176
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 70526
  10. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
  11. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Fay-lès-Marcilly10196 km W808.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 97 % · winter 68 %
Saint-Nazaire-des-Gardies30474 km S8011.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 0 % · winter 42 %
La Chapelle-Saint-Martial23387 km SW796.6No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 96 %
Poncey-sur-l'Ignon21118 km SW8010.9No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 55 %
La Penne-sur-l'Ouvèze26420 km S829.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 13 % · winter 78 %
La Celle63366 km SW816.2No daily shopsno figures
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Poncey-sur-l'Ignon21118 km SW8010.9No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 55 %
Fay-lès-Marcilly10196 km W808.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 97 % · winter 68 %
La Celle63366 km SW816.2No daily shopsno figures
La Chapelle-Saint-Martial23387 km SW796.6No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 96 %
La Penne-sur-l'Ouvèze26420 km S829.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 13 % · winter 78 %
Saint-Nazaire-des-Gardies30474 km S8011.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 0 % · winter 42 %

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