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Villers-Vaudey

Haute-Saône · CC des Quatre Rivières · INSEE 70568

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

No daily shops 6.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 13 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Villers-Vaudey (INSEE 70568) is in Haute-Saône (70), part of CC des Quatre Rivières. Population 58 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 6.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 13 % of the 5,903 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 trend0.38103.79
Housing mix0.3851.88

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: 90 2023: 58 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 63 (2012) → 58 (2023): -7.9 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 66 (1990) → 58 (2023): -12.1 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 48, of which 31.3 % second homes and 12.5 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

10 km20 kmFood shop — 2.4 km SW (Francourt)Primary school — 4.1 km N (La Roche-Morey)GP — 5.4 km S (Lavoncourt)Bakery — 5.7 km S (Lavoncourt)Pharmacy — 10.7 km NE (Combeaufontaine)
Food shop — 2.4 km SWPrimary school — 4.1 km NGP — 5.4 km SBakery — 5.7 km SPharmacy — 10.7 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 (Lavoncourt): 5.7 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Francourt): 2.4 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Lavoncourt): 5.4 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Combeaufontaine): 10.7 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (La Roche-Morey): 4.1 km to the north (straight line). [11]

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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 84 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the COMBEAUFONTAINE weather station, 10.7 km away at 252 m; the village itself is at 269 m. [12]

An average of 1,058 mm of rain a year, spread over 143 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at COMBEAUFONTAINE, 10.7 km away at 252 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70568/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70568/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70568/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 70568/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 70299
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 70251
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 70165
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 70373
  12. 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
Arx40592 km SW573.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 82 % · winter 51 %
Chaudebonne26358 km S5810.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 62 %
Courtesoult-et-Gatey7012 km SW585.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 88 %
Voingt63322 km SW586.7No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 59 % · winter 73 %
Surdoux87389 km SW5914.1No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 78 %
Saint-Marcory24496 km SW578No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 97 % · winter 31 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Courtesoult-et-Gatey7012 km SW585.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 88 %
Voingt63322 km SW586.7No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 59 % · winter 73 %
Chaudebonne26358 km S5810.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 62 %
Surdoux87389 km SW5914.1No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 78 %
Saint-Marcory24496 km SW578No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 97 % · winter 31 %
Arx40592 km SW573.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 82 % · winter 51 %

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