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Motey-Besuche

Haute-Saône · CC du Val Marnaysien · INSEE 70374

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

No daily shops 13.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 53 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Motey-Besuche (INSEE 70374) is in Haute-Saône (70), part of CC du Val Marnaysien. Population 95 (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/70374-motey-besuche

Vitality score

Vitality score 13.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 53 % of the 10,121 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 trend0.7107.03
Housing mix0.9154.55

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: 118 2023: 95 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 112 (2012) → 95 (2023): -15.2 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 79 (1990) → 95 (2023): 20.3 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 66, of which 4.5 % second homes and 19.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmFood shop — 1.3 km S (Montagney)Primary school — 1.4 km SW (Montagney)Bakery — 5.1 km NW (Valay)GP — 5.9 km SE (Pagney)Pharmacy — 5.9 km SE (Pagney)
Food shop — 1.3 km SPrimary school — 1.4 km SWBakery — 5.1 km NWGP — 5.9 km SEPharmacy — 5.9 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 (Valay): 5.1 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Montagney): 1.3 km to the south (straight line). [9]

GP (Pagney): 5.9 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Pagney): 5.9 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Montagney): 1.4 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

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 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 73 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the PESMES - SA weather station, 8.3 km away at 196 m; the village itself is at 219 m. [11]

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

Humidity measured at PESMES - SA, 8.3 km away at 196 m, over 16 summers. [11]

An average of 908 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at PESMES, 7.5 km away at 210 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 — 70374/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70374/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70374/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70374/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 70514
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 70353
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 39402
  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
Annéville-la-Prairie52109 km NW9512.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Givrycourt57203 km NE9512.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Étalle08297 km N9413.1No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Hamonville54171 km N947.8No daily shopsno figures
Vésines01121 km SW9610No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 86 %
Ortoncourt88135 km NE9412No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Annéville-la-Prairie52109 km NW9512.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Vésines01121 km SW9610No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 86 %
Ortoncourt88135 km NE9412No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Hamonville54171 km N947.8No daily shopsno figures
Givrycourt57203 km NE9512.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Étalle08297 km N9413.1No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Motey-Besuche'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
Annéville-la-Prairie52109 km NW9512.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Givrycourt57203 km NE9512.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Domvallier88117 km N937.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Marainville-sur-Madon88128 km N9413.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Bazegney88116 km N9514No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Bréhain57191 km N9715.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %