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Curbigny

Saône-et-Loire · CC Brionnais Sud Bourgogne · INSEE 71160

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

No daily shops 9.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 6 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Curbigny (INSEE 71160) is in Saône-et-Loire (71), part of CC Brionnais Sud Bourgogne. Population 303 (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/71160-curbigny

Vitality score

Vitality score 9.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 6 % of the 17,846 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 trend0.39103.94
Housing mix0.8854.39

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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 256 peak 1990: 339 2023: 303 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 313 (2012) → 303 (2023): -3.2 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 339 (1990) → 303 (2023): -10.6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 165, of which 6.1 % second homes and 9.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

10 km20 kmBakery — 1.8 km S (La Clayette)Food shop — 1.8 km S (La Clayette)Primary school — 1.8 km S (La Clayette)GP — 2.1 km S (La Clayette)Pharmacy — 11.5 km S (Chauffailles)
Bakery — 1.8 km SFood shop — 1.8 km SPrimary school — 1.8 km SGP — 2.1 km SPharmacy — 11.5 km S 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 (La Clayette): 1.8 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (La Clayette): 1.8 km to the south (straight line). [8]

GP (La Clayette): 2.1 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Chauffailles): 11.5 km to the south (straight line). [9]

Primary school (La Clayette): 1.8 km to the south (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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 57 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the BAUDEMONT_SAPC weather station, 3.3 km away at 396 m; the village itself is at 402 m. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at BAUDEMONT_SAPC, 3.6 km away at 337 m, over 15 summers. [10]

That station sits 65 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.06 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [10]

An average of 847 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at BAUDEMONT_SAPC, 3.3 km away at 396 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 — 71160/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71160/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71160/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71160/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 71133
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 71120
  10. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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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
Villamée35480 km NW30110No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Billancelles28336 km NW31016.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Mailhoc81311 km SW30414.1No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Layrac-sur-Tarn31350 km SW32011.1No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 54 % · winter 93 %
Courboin02305 km N30414.6No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Lagraulet-Saint-Nicolas31378 km SW28417No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 82 % · winter 74 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Courboin02305 km N30414.6No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Mailhoc81311 km SW30414.1No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Billancelles28336 km NW31016.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Layrac-sur-Tarn31350 km SW32011.1No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 54 % · winter 93 %
Lagraulet-Saint-Nicolas31378 km SW28417No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 82 % · winter 74 %
Villamée35480 km NW30110No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Curbigny'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
Saint-Julien-Innocence-Eulalie24351 km SW31111.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Neuville6392 km SW37314.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Voulgézac16336 km W2449.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
La Chapelle-au-Mans7144 km NW2298No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Druy-Parigny5895 km NW29817.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Salavre0180 km E30619.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %