Saint-Gervais-en-Vallière

Saône-et-Loire · CC Saône Doubs Bresse · INSEE 71423

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

Few services 23.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 43 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Gervais-en-Vallière (INSEE 71423) is in Saône-et-Loire (71), part of CC Saône Doubs Bresse. Population 445 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 23.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 43 % of the 17,952 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.77	5	3.84

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 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”.

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

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Hotel (LE MOULIN D'HAUTERIVE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	LE MOULIN D'HAUTERIVE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 292 2023: 445 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 442 (2012) → 445 (2023): 0.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 269 (1990) → 445 (2023): 65.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 225, of which 11.6 % second homes and 4.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.1 km WFood shop — 3.2 km WBakery — 3.3 km WGP — 4.0 km NWPharmacy — 7.0 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 (Saint-Loup-Géanges): 3.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Loup-Géanges): 3.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Loup-Géanges): 4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Gergy): 7 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Loup-Géanges): 3.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 33.3

Days at or below 0 °C 46

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 33 days a year at or above 30 °C and 46 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the BRAGNY SUR SAONE weather station, 5.7 km away at 183 m; the village itself is at 204 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at CHALON-CHAMPFO, 15.6 km away at 187 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 846 mm of rain a year, spread over 116 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BRAGNY SUR SAONE, 5.7 km away at 183 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 — 71423/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71423/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71423/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71423/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71443
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71215
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
Courant	17	434 km W	445	23.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Boussais	79	395 km W	446	18.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 91 %
Aboën	42	181 km S	481	23.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 73 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Jouan-de-l'Isle	22	553 km W	446	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Cuissai	61	407 km NW	436	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Osmanville	14	520 km NW	510	19.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 21 % · winter 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Aboën	42	181 km S	481	23.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 73 % · humidity 36 %
Boussais	79	395 km W	446	18.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 91 %
Cuissai	61	407 km NW	436	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Courant	17	434 km W	445	23.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Osmanville	14	520 km NW	510	19.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 21 % · winter 64 %
Saint-Jouan-de-l'Isle	22	553 km W	446	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Saint-Gervais-en-Vallière'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
Rochessauve	07	252 km S	495	33.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Fabras	07	259 km S	467	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Joch	66	517 km SW	416	15.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Andert-et-Condon	01	138 km SE	348	14.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Belmont-Bretenoux	46	329 km SW	408	13.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Talissieu	01	133 km SE	508	27.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

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