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Montcourt

Haute-Saône · CC des Hauts du Val de Saône · INSEE 70359

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

No daily shops 2.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 2 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montcourt (INSEE 70359) is in Haute-Saône (70), part of CC des Hauts du Val de Saône. Population 52 (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/70359-montcourt

Vitality score

Vitality score 2.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 2 % of the 5,097 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 trend0.1101.05
Housing mix0.2351.15

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: 75 peak 1990: 86 2023: 52 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 68 (2012) → 52 (2023): -23.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 86 (1990) → 52 (2023): -39.5 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 39, of which 38.5 % second homes and 0 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

10 km20 kmFood shop — 2.4 km SE (Corre)Bakery — 2.8 km SE (Corre)Primary school — 2.8 km SE (Corre)Pharmacy — 2.9 km SE (Corre)GP — 10.6 km E (Vauvillers)
Food shop — 2.4 km SEBakery — 2.8 km SEPrimary school — 2.8 km SEPharmacy — 2.9 km SEGP — 10.6 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 (Corre): 2.8 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Corre): 2.4 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

GP (Vauvillers): 10.6 km to the east (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Corre): 2.9 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Corre): 2.8 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 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, 10.7 km away at 243 m; the village itself is at 245 m. [10]

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

Humidity measured at VENISEY, 10.7 km away at 243 m, over 21 summers. [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, 9.2 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 — 70359/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70359/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70359/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70359/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 70177
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 70526
  10. 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
La Mazière-aux-Bons-Hommes23351 km SW521.9No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Andéol-de-Fourchades07366 km S521.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 42 % · humidity 86 %
Valz-sous-Châteauneuf63339 km SW527.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Ladoye-sur-Seille39132 km S508No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Bussy-la-Pesle58200 km W5011No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Le Neufour55152 km NW524.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 92 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Ladoye-sur-Seille39132 km S508No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Le Neufour55152 km NW524.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 92 %
Bussy-la-Pesle58200 km W5011No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Valz-sous-Châteauneuf63339 km SW527.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
La Mazière-aux-Bons-Hommes23351 km SW521.9No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Andéol-de-Fourchades07366 km S521.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 42 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Montcourt'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
Valz-sous-Châteauneuf63339 km SW527.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Ladoye-sur-Seille39132 km S508No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Bussy-la-Pesle58200 km W5011No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Lahitère31649 km SW5213.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Vertault21120 km W509.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Bièvres08188 km N493.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %