Buffières

Saône-et-Loire · CC du Clunisois · INSEE 71065

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

Few services 36.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 90 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Buffières (INSEE 71065) is in Saône-et-Loire (71), part of CC du Clunisois. Population 273 (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 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 36.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 90 % of the 17,545 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.

Component	Value (0–1)	Weight	Contribution
Daily food	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.54	10	5.38
Housing mix	0.45	5	2.27

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 1 of 1

Culture 1 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) (LE FOURNIL DE BUFFIERES). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LE B'FIRON · AUX PETITS SOINS). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (BUFFIERES AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BUFFIÈRES). ^[3]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LE FOURNIL DE BUFFIERES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	2	LE B'FIRON · AUX PETITS SOINS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	BUFFIERES AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BUFFIÈRES	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

A market is recorded here, but no source gives the day. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 308 2023: 273 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 259 (2012) → 273 (2023): 5.4 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 263 (1990) → 273 (2023): 3.8 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 205, of which 27.3 % second homes and 5.4 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 3.4 km SGP — 8.3 km SWPharmacy — 8.7 km SW 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 (Buffières): 0.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Curtil-sous-Buffières): 3.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Dompierre-les-Ormes): 8.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Pharmacy (Dompierre-les-Ormes): 8.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Buffières): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 19.5

Days at or below 0 °C 81

Muggy days a summer 1.1

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 81 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the JALOGNY_SAPC weather station, 9.2 km away at 246 m; the village itself is at 334 m. ^[12]

The village sits 88 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.55 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at JALOGNY_SAPC, 9.2 km away at 246 m, over 11 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 88 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.06 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 914 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at CHATEAU, 5 km away at 330 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71065/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2026-01— https://data.datatourisme.fr/6/34a1d411-3071-3b85-8744-ce1fcd7ba290— “Marché paysan de Buffières”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71065/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71065/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71065/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71065
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71163
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71178
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.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Ids-Saint-Roch	18	178 km W	295	33	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 61 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Bonnet-le-Froid	43	143 km S	232	41	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 66 %
Goulles	19	246 km SW	323	30.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Varaignes	24	323 km W	358	35.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 82 % · winter 51 %
Miramont-de-Quercy	82	365 km SW	304	37.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 26 % · humidity 79 %
Lascelle	15	218 km SW	260	24.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Bonnet-le-Froid	43	143 km S	232	41	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 66 %
Ids-Saint-Roch	18	178 km W	295	33	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 61 % · humidity 64 %
Lascelle	15	218 km SW	260	24.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Goulles	19	246 km SW	323	30.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Varaignes	24	323 km W	358	35.2	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 82 % · winter 51 %
Miramont-de-Quercy	82	365 km SW	304	37.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 26 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Buffières'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.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bournazel	12	280 km SW	327	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Biches	58	93 km NW	240	16.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Bétête	23	189 km W	389	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Ozenay	71	27 km NE	237	24.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Mortroux	23	201 km W	277	19	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Paul	19	245 km SW	232	25.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

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