Mellecey

Saône-et-Loire · CA Le Grand Chalon · INSEE 71292

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

Few services 37.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 43 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Mellecey (INSEE 71292) is in Saône-et-Loire (71), part of CA Le Grand Chalon. Population 1,348 (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/71292-mellecey

Vitality score

Vitality score 37.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 43 % of the 12,371 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.43	10	4.32
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.72	10	7.23
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.52

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 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE FOURNIL DE GERMOLLES). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (LUCAS D'HEILLY, MÉDECIN · JULIEN MARIE, MÉDECIN · THIERRY PINETTE, MÉDECIN · MYRIAM DAGUZAN, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (MELLECEY TABAC RP). ^[3]

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

3 × Hairdresser (L'OR ET VAN COIFFURE · VEGETALE COIFFURE · VERSION NATUR'ELLE). ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LE FOURNIL DE GERMOLLES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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	2		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	4	LUCAS D'HEILLY, MÉDECIN · JULIEN MARIE, MÉDECIN · THIERRY PINETTE, MÉDECIN · MYRIAM DAGUZAN, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 4 [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	1	MELLECEY TABAC RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	3	L'OR ET VAN COIFFURE · VEGETALE COIFFURE · VERSION NATUR'ELLE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 738 2023: 1,348 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,255 (2012) → 1,348 (2023): 7.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,102 (1990) → 1,348 (2023): 22.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 606, of which 4.8 % second homes and 4.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, GP Primary school — 0.8 km EFood shop — 2.4 km NPharmacy — 2.4 km N 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 (Mellecey): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Mercurey): 2.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Mellecey): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Mercurey): 2.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Mellecey): 0.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.7

Days at or below 0 °C 50.7

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 17 days a year at or above 30 °C and 51 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the RULLY weather station, 6.3 km away at 240 m; the village itself is at 221 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at RULLY, 6.3 km away at 240 m, over 18 summers. ^[10]

An average of 792 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at MERCUREY, 3.3 km away at 258 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 — 71292/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71292/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71292/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71292/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71292
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71294
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
Flaviac	07	230 km S	1,235	36.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Geneuille	25	110 km NE	1,280	39.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Barnabé	22	577 km W	1,223	32.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Avignonet-Lauragais	31	447 km SW	1,573	37.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 51 % · humidity 50 %
Colleret	59	386 km N	1,541	31	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Ô-de-Selle	80	380 km NW	1,148	30.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Geneuille	25	110 km NE	1,280	39.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Flaviac	07	230 km S	1,235	36.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Ô-de-Selle	80	380 km NW	1,148	30.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Colleret	59	386 km N	1,541	31	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Avignonet-Lauragais	31	447 km SW	1,573	37.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 51 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Barnabé	22	577 km W	1,223	32.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 73 % · 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 Mellecey'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
Le Luart	72	342 km NW	1,460	35.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Merxheim	68	229 km NE	1,396	31.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Charentilly	37	320 km W	1,365	35.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Guewenheim	68	207 km NE	1,368	38.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Chevillon	52	193 km N	1,244	31.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Neuvy	03	113 km W	1,475	31.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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