Saint-Émiland

Identity

Saint-Émiland (INSEE 71409) is in Saône-et-Loire (71), part of CC du Grand Autunois Morvan. Population 317 (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/71409-saint-emiland

Vitality score

Vitality score 16.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 30 % of the 17,936 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, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Hairdresser (M ETRE BELLE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: 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]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 328 (2012) → 317 (2023): -3.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 299 (1990) → 317 (2023): 6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 229, of which 15.3 % second homes and 19.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Couches): 8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Antully): 5.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Sernin-du-Bois): 8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Sernin-du-Bois): 8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Antully): 5.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

An average of 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 69 days at or below 0 °C, over 12 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ANTULLY weather station, 5.3 km away at 530 m; the village itself is at 441 m. ^[11]

The village sits 89 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.55 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ST-MAURICE-LES-COUCHES_SAPC, 8.8 km away at 300 m, over 15 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 141 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.06 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 878 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at TINTRY, 3.2 km away at 400 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71409/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71409/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71409/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71409/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 71149
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 71010
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 71479
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024