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Saint-Julien-sur-Dheune

Saône-et-Loire · CU Le Creusot Montceau-les-Mines · INSEE 71435

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 14.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 30 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Julien-sur-Dheune (INSEE 71435) is in Saône-et-Loire (71), part of CU Le Creusot Montceau-les-Mines. Population 226 (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/71435-saint-julien-sur-dheune

Vitality score

Vitality score 14.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 30 % of the 16,695 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.73107.28
Housing mix0.9754.84

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 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 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Primary school (élémentaire).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), 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]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 240 peak 2012: 250 2023: 226 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 250 (2012) → 226 (2023): -9.6 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 184 (1990) → 226 (2023): 22.8 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 122, of which 1.6 % second homes and 8.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 2.7 km SW (Écuisses)Bakery — 2.8 km SW (Écuisses)Food shop — 5.5 km W (Montchanin)GP — 6.1 km SW (Montchanin)Pharmacy — 6.2 km SW (Montchanin)
Primary school — 2.7 km SWBakery — 2.8 km SWFood shop — 5.5 km WGP — 6.1 km SWPharmacy — 6.2 km SW 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 (Écuisses): 2.8 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Montchanin): 5.5 km to the west (straight line). [9]

GP (Montchanin): 6.1 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Montchanin): 6.2 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Écuisses): 2.7 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 66 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the TORCY weather station, 7.6 km away at 317 m; the village itself is at 270 m. [10]

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

Humidity measured at TORCY, 7.6 km away at 317 m, over 23 summers. [10]

An average of 865 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at TORCY, 7.6 km away at 317 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71435/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71435/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71435/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71435/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 71187
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 71310
  10. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Haboudange57282 km NE22511.6No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
This08331 km N22416.3No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Le Frestoy-Vaux60346 km NW22412.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Waltembourg57296 km NE22713.2No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Craincourt57269 km NE22613.5No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Crapeaumesnil60344 km N22517.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
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CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Craincourt57269 km NE22613.5No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Haboudange57282 km NE22511.6No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Waltembourg57296 km NE22713.2No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
This08331 km N22416.3No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Crapeaumesnil60344 km N22517.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Le Frestoy-Vaux60346 km NW22412.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 82 % · 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-Julien-sur-Dheune'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Vélye51237 km N22817.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Tanay2190 km NE22710.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Prunay-Belleville10187 km N22910.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Linay08320 km N22013.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Lucy57281 km NE22413.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Villers-Saint-Martin25155 km NE22513No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %