Saint-Symphorien-des-Bois

Saône-et-Loire · CC Brionnais Sud Bourgogne · INSEE 71483

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

Few services 35.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 78 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Symphorien-des-Bois (INSEE 71483) is in Saône-et-Loire (71), part of CC Brionnais Sud Bourgogne. Population 421 (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 35.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 78 % of the 17,948 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.52	10	5.17
Housing mix	0.75	5	3.77

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 0 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 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LE SENS-FREIN). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LES 3 PETITS POIS). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINT SYMPHORIEN DES BOIS RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SAINT-SYMPHORIEN-DES-BOIS). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[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)	1	LE SENS-FREIN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	LES 3 PETITS POIS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	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	1	SAINT SYMPHORIEN DES BOIS RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SAINT-SYMPHORIEN-DES-BOIS	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	1		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: 401 peak 2017: 438 2023: 421 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 424 (2012) → 421 (2023): -0.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 414 (1990) → 421 (2023): 1.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 244, of which 12.3 % second homes and 5.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 4.9 km SEGP — 4.9 km NWPharmacy — 11.3 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 (La Clayette): 4.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Symphorien-des-Bois): 0.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Julien-de-Civry): 4.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Charolles): 11.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Saint-Symphorien-des-Bois): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 26.7

Days at or below 0 °C 57

Muggy days a summer 0.5

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 57 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the BAUDEMONT_SAPC weather station, 5.1 km away at 396 m; the village itself is at 445 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at BAUDEMONT_SAPC, 6.3 km away at 337 m, over 15 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 108 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.06 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 847 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at BAUDEMONT_SAPC, 5.1 km away at 396 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71483/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71483/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71483/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71483/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71133
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71483
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71433
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71106
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
Champs	63	97 km W	441	43.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 50 %
Nonards	19	241 km SW	482	39.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 93 % · humidity 64 %
Mazille	71	26 km E	400	35.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Monfort	32	392 km SW	515	40.4	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 91 % · humidity 43 %
Grand'Rivière	972	6,942 km W	487	34.1	Few services	no figures
Fontiers-Cabardès	11	366 km SW	476	44.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Mazille	71	26 km E	400	35.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Champs	63	97 km W	441	43.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 50 %
Nonards	19	241 km SW	482	39.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 93 % · humidity 64 %
Fontiers-Cabardès	11	366 km SW	476	44.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Monfort	32	392 km SW	515	40.4	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 91 % · humidity 43 %
Grand'Rivière	972	6,942 km W	487	34.1	Few services	no figures

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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-Symphorien-des-Bois'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
La Chapelle-Hugon	18	120 km NW	387	29.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Pierrefitte-sur-Loire	03	40 km NW	506	40.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Verneuil-sur-Igneraie	36	177 km W	344	29.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Jenzat	03	85 km W	517	29.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Vaour	81	317 km SW	393	48.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Bérain-sur-Dheune	71	60 km NE	538	35.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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