Uchon

Saône-et-Loire · CC du Grand Autunois Morvan · INSEE 71551

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

No daily shops 19.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 81 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Uchon (INSEE 71551) is in Saône-et-Loire (71), part of CC du Grand Autunois Morvan. Population 105 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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 19.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 81 % of the 11,027 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	0.07	5	0.37

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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 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 × Restaurant (LA CROIX MESSIRE JEAN). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (LA CROIX MESSIRE JEAN). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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

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	1	LA CROIX MESSIRE JEAN	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)	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	LA CROIX MESSIRE JEAN	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: 89 2023: 105 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 102 (2012) → 105 (2023): 2.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 55 (1990) → 105 (2023): 90.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 95, of which 46.3 % second homes and 2.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 4.1 km SWPrimary school — 4.2 km SWBakery — 5.5 km NPharmacy — 5.5 km NGP — 6.3 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 (Mesvres): 5.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Tagnière): 4.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Mesvres): 6.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Mesvres): 5.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (La Tagnière): 4.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 9.9

Days at or below 0 °C 82.6

Muggy days a summer 0.4

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 10 days a year at or above 30 °C and 83 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ST-SYMPHORIEN DE MARMAGNE weather station, 7.5 km away at 349 m; the village itself is at 621 m. ^[10]

The village sits 272 m above 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at TOULON SUR ARROUX SA, 15.8 km away at 306 m, over 14 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 315 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.06 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 1,078 mm of rain a year, spread over 134 days — about 8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at UCHON, 1.7 km away at 558 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 — 71551/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71551/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71551/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71551/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71297
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71531
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
Reilhanette	26	308 km S	107	11.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Cras	46	327 km SW	97	19.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 26 % · winter 61 % · humidity 86 %
Savennes	63	192 km SW	96	11.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Aiglun	06	389 km SE	104	15	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Thiéry	06	382 km SE	91	14.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 31 % · humidity 93 %
Urval	24	339 km SW	116	15.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 22 % · humidity 36 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Savennes	63	192 km SW	96	11.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Reilhanette	26	308 km S	107	11.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Cras	46	327 km SW	97	19.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 26 % · winter 61 % · humidity 86 %
Urval	24	339 km SW	116	15.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 22 % · humidity 36 %
Thiéry	06	382 km SE	91	14.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 31 % · humidity 93 %
Aiglun	06	389 km SE	104	15	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 99 % · 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 Uchon'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
Aix-la-Fayette	63	155 km S	97	14.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Pierre-Percée	54	272 km NE	90	19	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jeure-d'Andaure	07	197 km S	104	14.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
La Tieule	48	283 km S	94	20.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Galey	09	505 km SW	114	17.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Pontcharraud	23	185 km SW	82	9.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

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