Lessard-le-National

Saône-et-Loire · CA Le Grand Chalon · INSEE 71257

A school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink.

Few services 23.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 27 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lessard-le-National (INSEE 71257) is in Saône-et-Loire (71), part of CA Le Grand Chalon. Population 662 (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/71257-lessard-le-national

Vitality score

Vitality score 23.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 27 % of the 16,666 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	25	0
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.87	10	8.71
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.93

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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”.

A school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Hairdresser (COIFFURE ENTRE NOUS). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1	COIFFURE ENTRE NOUS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 125 2023: 662 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 591 (2012) → 662 (2023): 12 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 483 (1990) → 662 (2023): 37.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 273, of which 0.7 % second homes and 1.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.8 km SEGP — 4.7 km SPharmacy — 4.7 km SFood shop — 5.2 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 (Virey-le-Grand): 2.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Champforgeuil): 5.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Champforgeuil): 4.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Champforgeuil): 4.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Lessard-le-National): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21.7

Days at or below 0 °C 68.9

Muggy days a summer 1.7

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 69 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CHALON-CHAMPFO weather station, 4 km away at 187 m; the village itself is at 200 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CHALON-CHAMPFO, 4 km away at 187 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 729 mm of rain a year, spread over 107 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CHALON-CHAMPFO, 4 km away at 187 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71257/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71257/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71257/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71257/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71585
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71081
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71257
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
Saint-Pardon-de-Conques	33	467 km SW	663	25	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 66 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Germain-le-Châtelet	90	185 km NE	654	22.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Gauville-la-Campagne	27	370 km NW	652	21.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Marchémoret	77	288 km NW	659	24.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Obies	59	387 km N	660	20.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Gilles-de-la-Neuville	76	448 km NW	666	22.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 56 % · winter 54 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Germain-le-Châtelet	90	185 km NE	654	22.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Marchémoret	77	288 km NW	659	24.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Gauville-la-Campagne	27	370 km NW	652	21.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Obies	59	387 km N	660	20.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Gilles-de-la-Neuville	76	448 km NW	666	22.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 56 % · winter 54 %
Saint-Pardon-de-Conques	33	467 km SW	663	25	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 66 % · 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 Lessard-le-National'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
Saulon-la-Rue	21	43 km NE	701	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Varenne-Saint-Germain	71	79 km SW	684	23.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Béchy	57	262 km NE	615	22.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Rivas	42	149 km S	747	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Tillenay	21	52 km NE	743	24.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Vandeins	01	74 km S	732	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

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