Blondefontaine

Haute-Saône · CC des Hauts du Val de Saône · INSEE 70074

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

No daily shops 16.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 39 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Blondefontaine (INSEE 70074) is in Haute-Saône (70), part of CC des Hauts du Val de Saône. Population 238 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[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 16.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 39 % of the 16,971 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.44	10	4.37
Housing mix	0.58	5	2.91

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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”.

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (BLONDEFONTAINE RP). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[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)	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	1	BLONDEFONTAINE RP	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 310 2023: 238 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 261 (2012) → 238 (2023): -8.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 254 (1990) → 238 (2023): -6.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 177, of which 20.9 % second homes and 10.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery Food shop — 5.6 km SEGP — 6.1 km SEPrimary school — 6.2 km SEPharmacy — 6.4 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 (Blondefontaine): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Jussey): 5.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Jussey): 6.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Jussey): 6.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Jussey): 6.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18.7

Days at or below 0 °C 68

Muggy days a summer 2

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 68 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the VENISEY weather station, 10.3 km away at 243 m; the village itself is at 229 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at VENISEY, 10.3 km away at 243 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

An average of 861 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at VENISEY, 10.3 km away at 243 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 — 70074/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70074/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70074/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70074/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 70074
INSEE BPE 2025 — 70292
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
Champignol-lez-Mondeville	10	93 km W	260	18.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Tieffenbach	67	153 km NE	243	15.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Bonsmoulins	61	404 km W	232	16.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Courtivron	21	77 km SW	167	19.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Marnay-sur-Seine	10	185 km NW	234	16.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Anglars	46	463 km SW	218	18.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Courtivron	21	77 km SW	167	19.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Champignol-lez-Mondeville	10	93 km W	260	18.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Tieffenbach	67	153 km NE	243	15.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Marnay-sur-Seine	10	185 km NW	234	16.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Bonsmoulins	61	404 km W	232	16.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Anglars	46	463 km SW	218	18.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 55 % · 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 Blondefontaine'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
Champignol-lez-Mondeville	10	93 km W	260	18.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Courtivron	21	77 km SW	167	19.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Montillot	89	165 km W	247	23.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Marcilly-en-Bassigny	52	26 km W	220	9.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Selles	70	19 km NE	224	12	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Vanvey	21	87 km W	243	8.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

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