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Breuchotte

Haute-Saône · CC du Pays de Luxeuil · INSEE 70094

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

Few services 30.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 78 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Breuchotte (INSEE 70094) is in Haute-Saône (70), part of CC du Pays de Luxeuil. Population 299 (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/70094-breuchotte

Vitality score

Vitality score 30.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 78 % of the 17,839 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 food0.21255.27
Social0.32206.32
Education0.63106.32
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.39103.93
Housing mix0.8454.21

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6
Eating out 1 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 1 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”.

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA FABRIQUE DES MILLE ETANGS). [3,4]

1 × Restaurant. [3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE MARC ROUSSEL). [3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)1LA FABRIQUE DES MILLE ETANGSINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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]
Restaurant1INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE MARC ROUSSELINSEE BPE 1 [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: 371 2023: 299 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 306 (2012) → 299 (2023): -2.3 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 335 (1990) → 299 (2023): -10.7 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 177, of which 7.9 % second homes and 6.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 0.5 km N (Raddon-et-Chapendu)GP — 0.6 km N (Raddon-et-Chapendu)Pharmacy — 0.6 km NE (Raddon-et-Chapendu)
In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 0.5 km NGP — 0.6 km NPharmacy — 0.6 km NE 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 (Breuchotte): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Raddon-et-Chapendu): 0.5 km to the north (straight line). [9]

GP (Raddon-et-Chapendu): 0.6 km to the north (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Raddon-et-Chapendu): 0.6 km to the north-east (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Breuchotte): 0.2 km to the south-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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 75 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the FOUGEROLLES_SAPC weather station, 9 km away at 315 m; the village itself is at 333 m. [10]

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

Humidity measured at LUXEUIL, 9.5 km away at 271 m, over 30 summers. [10]

That station sits 62 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.06 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [10]

An average of 1,513 mm of rain a year, spread over 156 days — about 9.7 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at FAUCOGNEY, 7.1 km away at 360 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70094/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70094/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70094/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70094/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 70094
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 70435
  10. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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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
Quié09673 km SW29722.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %
Paroy-sur-Tholon89231 km W30627.1Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Beaucourt-sur-l'Hallue80379 km NW27827.4Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Hegeney67150 km NE43737.3Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Courances91304 km W34837.4Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Eglingen6857 km E35835.1Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Eglingen6857 km E35835.1Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Hegeney67150 km NE43737.3Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Paroy-sur-Tholon89231 km W30627.1Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Courances91304 km W34837.4Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Beaucourt-sur-l'Hallue80379 km NW27827.4Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Quié09673 km SW29722.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · 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 Breuchotte'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
Thiébauménil5483 km N38328.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Menoncourt9040 km SE39146.7Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Stetten6876 km E33422.9Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Vieux-Lixheim57116 km NE24922Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Grundviller57139 km N67436.8Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Tagsdorf6867 km E32538.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %