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Écuelle

Haute-Saône · CC Val de Gray · INSEE 70211

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

No daily shops 9.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 31 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Écuelle (INSEE 70211) is in Haute-Saône (70), part of CC Val de Gray. Population 72 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/70211-ecuelle

Vitality score

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

Confidence: high.

Better served than 31 % of the 7,639 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 trend0.44104.35
Housing mix0.7953.96

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: 88 2023: 72 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 83 (2012) → 72 (2023): -13.3 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 77 (1990) → 72 (2023): -6.5 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 48, of which 10.4 % second homes and 14.6 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 5.6 km E (Montot)Primary school — 7.2 km S (Chargey-lès-Gray)Food shop — 7.4 km N (Champlitte)GP — 7.7 km N (Champlitte)Pharmacy — 7.7 km N (Champlitte)
Bakery — 5.6 km EPrimary school — 7.2 km SFood shop — 7.4 km NGP — 7.7 km NPharmacy — 7.7 km N 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 (Montot): 5.6 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Champlitte): 7.4 km to the north (straight line). [9]

GP (Champlitte): 7.7 km to the north (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Champlitte): 7.7 km to the north (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Chargey-lès-Gray): 7.2 km to the south (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 20 days a year at or above 30 °C and 56 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the CHARGEY-LES-GRAY weather station, 5.8 km away at 244 m; the village itself is at 221 m. [11]

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

Humidity measured at CHARGEY-LES-GRAY, 5.8 km away at 244 m, over 28 summers. [11]

An average of 928 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at FRAMONT, 3.9 km away at 220 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 — 70211/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70211/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70211/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70211/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 70368
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 70122
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 70132
  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
Cuissy-et-Geny02248 km NW7210.6No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Vidai61398 km W7216.4No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Saussey2189 km SW749No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Paréac65655 km SW7310.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 70 % · humidity 64 %
Monchel-sur-Canche62392 km NW7111.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 59 %
Gémonville5499 km N748.9No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saussey2189 km SW749No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Gémonville5499 km N748.9No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Cuissy-et-Geny02248 km NW7210.6No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Monchel-sur-Canche62392 km NW7111.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 59 %
Vidai61398 km W7216.4No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Paréac65655 km SW7310.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 70 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Écuelle'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
Ribeaucourt55111 km N726.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Juvelize57157 km NE727No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Magny-la-Ville2185 km W7212.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Flammerécourt5298 km NW7212.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Cademène2562 km SE668.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Mercy89153 km W7710.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %