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Dampierre-en-Bresse

Saône-et-Loire · CC Bresse Nord Intercom' · INSEE 71168

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

No daily shops 11.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 25 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Dampierre-en-Bresse (INSEE 71168) is in Saône-et-Loire (71), part of CC Bresse Nord Intercom'. Population 172 (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/71168-dampierre-en-bresse

Vitality score

Vitality score 11.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 25 % of the 15,091 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 trend0.6105.96
Housing mix0.854

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: 247 2023: 172 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 174 (2012) → 172 (2023): -1.1 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 157 (1990) → 172 (2023): 9.6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 120, of which 10 % second homes and 11.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 3.2 km S (Mervans)Food shop — 3.2 km S (Mervans)Primary school — 3.4 km S (Mervans)GP — 3.4 km S (Mervans)Pharmacy — 8.0 km NE (Pierre-de-Bresse)
Bakery — 3.2 km SFood shop — 3.2 km SPrimary school — 3.4 km SGP — 3.4 km SPharmacy — 8.0 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 (Mervans): 3.2 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Mervans): 3.2 km to the south (straight line). [8]

GP (Mervans): 3.4 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Pierre-de-Bresse): 8 km to the north-east (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Mervans): 3.4 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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 67 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the ST-GERMAIN-DU-B weather station, 8.7 km away at 200 m; the village itself is at 193 m. [10]

An average of 909 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at PIERRE DE BRESSE, 8.4 km away at 208 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 — 71168/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71168/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71168/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71168/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 71295
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 71351
  10. 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
La Chapelle-Urée50516 km NW17210.8No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 46 % · winter 88 %
Juillé16401 km W1739.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 81 %
Le Temple41344 km NW16912.1No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 57 %
Frétoy77257 km NW17316.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 72 % · winter 70 %
Belleserre81445 km SW17116.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 59 % · winter 51 %
Champcerie61461 km NW17716.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 59 % · winter 84 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Frétoy77257 km NW17316.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 72 % · winter 70 %
Le Temple41344 km NW16912.1No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 57 %
Juillé16401 km W1739.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 81 %
Belleserre81445 km SW17116.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 59 % · winter 51 %
Champcerie61461 km NW17716.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 59 % · winter 84 %
La Chapelle-Urée50516 km NW17210.8No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 46 % · winter 88 %

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