Culles-les-Roches

Identity

Culles-les-Roches (INSEE 71159) is in Saône-et-Loire (71), part of CC Sud Côte Chalonnaise. Population 199 (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/71159-culles-les-roches

Vitality score

Vitality score 10.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 17 % of the 15,908 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.

Services

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]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

Population 197 (2012) → 199 (2023): 1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 173 (1990) → 199 (2023): 15 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 133, of which 23.3 % second homes and 6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Chenôves): 2.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Gengoux-le-National): 4.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Buxy): 7.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Genouilly): 6 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Saint-Boil): 2.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

An average of 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 63 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the BUXY weather station, 7.3 km away at 230 m; the village itself is at 348 m. ^[13]

The village sits 118 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. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at MT-ST-VINCENT, 13.7 km away at 601 m, over 30 summers. ^[13]

That station sits 253 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.06 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[13]

An average of 844 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at ST-GENGOUX-LE-NATIONAL, 4.2 km away at 260 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

What property sold for

20 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 123,362 € — 1,083 € per m² of built surface. ^[14]

The median across Saône-et-Loire is 1,210 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[14]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71159/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71159/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71159/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71159/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 71124
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 71417
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 71070
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 71214
12. INSEE BPE 2025 — 71392
13. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
14. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025