Écuisses

Identity

Écuisses (INSEE 71187) is in Saône-et-Loire (71), part of CU Le Creusot Montceau-les-Mines. Population 1,652 (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/71187-ecuisses

Vitality score

Vitality score 29.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 13 % of the 10,916 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

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LES QUATRE SAISONS). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (CHELMINIAK DUTREMBLE). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE LES 7 ECLUSES). ^[3]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE ROGER DENUX). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (FANNY COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 3 × Restaurant.

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

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 1,699 (2012) → 1,652 (2023): -2.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,764 (1990) → 1,652 (2023): -6.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 872, of which 1.5 % second homes and 13.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Écuisses): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Montchanin): 3 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Montchanin): 3.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Montchanin): 3.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Écuisses): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

An average of 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 66 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the TORCY weather station, 5.2 km away at 317 m; the village itself is at 288 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at TORCY, 5.2 km away at 317 m, over 23 summers. ^[10]

An average of 865 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at TORCY, 5.2 km away at 317 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

What property sold for

101 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 112,000 € — 1,159 € per m² of built surface. ^[11]

22 flats sold over the same window, at a median of 82,500 € — 752 € per m². ^[11]

The median across Saône-et-Loire is 1,210 € per m², so this commune sits about level with it. ^[11]

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 — 71187/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71187/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71187/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71187/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 71187
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 71310
10. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
11. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025