Fontaines

Saône-et-Loire · CA Le Grand Chalon · INSEE 71202

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

Few services 39.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 39 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Fontaines (INSEE 71202) is in Saône-et-Loire (71), part of CA Le Grand Chalon. Population 1,841 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/71202-fontaines

Vitality score

Vitality score 39.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 39 % of the 10,147 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	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.5	10	5.01
Housing mix	0.87	5	4.37

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 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AUX DELICES FONTENOIS · BOULANGERIE CIANNI). ^[3,4]

4 × Restaurant (BOUVIER-VIOLLET · FONTAINES KEBAB · AU PETIT FONTAINES · PIZZERIA LA ROMANCE). ^[3,4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (LAURENCE BADET, MÉDECIN · DAVID TRUONG, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE SAINT HILAIRE). ^[3,4]

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

2 × Gym / sports hall (LYCEE AGRICOLE · SALLE MULTISPORTS). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (SERVANGE MARIE-CHRISTINE · COTE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (HÔTEL DU NORD). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Hotel.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	AUX DELICES FONTENOIS · BOULANGERIE CIANNI	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	4	BOUVIER-VIOLLET · FONTAINES KEBAB · AU PETIT FONTAINES · PIZZERIA LA ROMANCE	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [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)	2	LAURENCE BADET, MÉDECIN · DAVID TRUONG, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE SAINT HILAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	FONTAINES AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	2	LYCEE AGRICOLE · SALLE MULTISPORTS	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	2	SERVANGE MARIE-CHRISTINE · COTE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	HÔTEL DU NORD	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE 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: 1,438 peak 2007: 1,997 2023: 1,841 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,959 (2012) → 1,841 (2023): -6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,839 (1990) → 1,841 (2023): 0.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,020, of which 6.3 % second homes and 7.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 3.7 km NW 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 (Fontaines): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Rully): 3.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Fontaines): 0.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Fontaines): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Fontaines): 0.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 19.7

Days at or below 0 °C 67.6

Muggy days a summer 1.3

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 68 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the FONTAINES weather station, 1.2 km away at 200 m; the village itself is at 195 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at RULLY, 2.8 km away at 240 m, over 18 summers. ^[10]

An average of 777 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at FONTAINES, 1.2 km away at 200 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71202/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71202/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71202/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71202/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71202
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71378
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
Bueil	27	339 km NW	1,642	38.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Gilette	06	382 km SE	1,627	42.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 22 % · humidity 50 %
Oberbronn	67	314 km NE	1,404	35.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Augustin	77	252 km NW	1,888	44.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Volmerange-les-Mines	57	304 km N	2,289	42.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 70 %
Demigny	71	10 km NE	1,756	41.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Demigny	71	10 km NE	1,756	41.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Augustin	77	252 km NW	1,888	44.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Volmerange-les-Mines	57	304 km N	2,289	42.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 70 %
Oberbronn	67	314 km NE	1,404	35.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Bueil	27	339 km NW	1,642	38.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Gilette	06	382 km SE	1,627	42.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 22 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Fontaines'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
Oberbronn	67	314 km NE	1,404	35.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Demigny	71	10 km NE	1,756	41.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Oberhergheim	68	233 km NE	1,315	35.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Sillans	38	174 km S	1,919	50.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Ostheim	68	244 km NE	1,651	39.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Lent	01	87 km S	1,512	41.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %

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