Varennes-le-Grand

Saône-et-Loire · CA Le Grand Chalon · INSEE 71555

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

Partly served 53/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 77 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Varennes-le-Grand (INSEE 71555) is in Saône-et-Loire (71), part of CA Le Grand Chalon. Population 2,293 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/71555-varennes-le-grand

Vitality score

Vitality score 53/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 77 % of the 8,747 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.81

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 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”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (INSPIRATION MACARON BY ARNO). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3]

2 × Restaurant (LE GRAND VARENNES · C'EST DANS LA BOITE). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (BAR TABACS DES SPORTS). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE L'AUTRE ECOLE). ^[3]

1 × Collège (ECOLE SECONDAIRE PRIVEE). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JEAN-BAPTISTE BUZENS, MÉDECIN · MARC BEAUGY, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE VARENNES-LE-GRAND). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (GYMNASE VARENNES SEVREY). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (ELEGANCE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (MOTEL LE VIRAGE FLEURI). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Pharmacy.

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	INSPIRATION MACARON BY ARNO	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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	2	LE GRAND VARENNES · C'EST DANS LA BOITE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	BAR TABACS DES SPORTS	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE L'AUTRE ECOLE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	1	ECOLE SECONDAIRE PRIVEE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	JEAN-BAPTISTE BUZENS, MÉDECIN · MARC BEAUGY, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE VARENNES-LE-GRAND	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	GYMNASE VARENNES SEVREY	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1	ELEGANCE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hotel	1	MOTEL LE VIRAGE FLEURI	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: 993 peak 2017: 2,298 2023: 2,293 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,267 (2012) → 2,293 (2023): 1.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,298 (1990) → 2,293 (2023): 76.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 862, of which 1.9 % second homes and 8.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP Food shop — 0.9 km SEPharmacy — 4.9 km NW 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 (Varennes-le-Grand): 0.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Varennes-le-Grand): 0.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Varennes-le-Grand): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Lux): 4.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Varennes-le-Grand): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 34.9

Days at or below 0 °C 57.7

Muggy days a summer 6.4

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 35 days a year at or above 30 °C and 58 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ST-MARCEL weather station, 8 km away at 187 m; the village itself is at 189 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at SENNECEY, 10.4 km away at 190 m, over 11 summers. ^[10]

An average of 891 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at GIGNY, 7.8 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 — 71555/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71555/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71555/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71555/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71555
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71269
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
Plounéventer	29	710 km W	2,251	56.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 13 % · winter 39 % · humidity 64 %
Beaurepaire	85	454 km W	2,385	54.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 51 % · winter 76 %
Edern	29	683 km W	2,186	52.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 53 % · humidity 64 %
Boeschepe	59	482 km N	2,244	54.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 58 % · humidity 64 %
Romagné	35	496 km NW	2,438	54.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 59 % · humidity 64 %
Godewaersvelde	59	482 km N	2,024	56.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 58 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Beaurepaire	85	454 km W	2,385	54.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 51 % · winter 76 %
Boeschepe	59	482 km N	2,244	54.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 58 % · humidity 64 %
Godewaersvelde	59	482 km N	2,024	56.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 58 % · humidity 64 %
Romagné	35	496 km NW	2,438	54.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 59 % · humidity 64 %
Edern	29	683 km W	2,186	52.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 53 % · humidity 64 %
Plounéventer	29	710 km W	2,251	56.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 13 % · winter 39 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Varennes-le-Grand'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
Mézériat	01	55 km S	2,172	51.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Médard-de-Guizières	33	426 km SW	2,438	60.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Germain-du-Plain	71	8.3 km E	2,362	65.8	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Romans	38	181 km S	1,897	52.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Hostens	33	495 km SW	1,554	49.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Seurin-sur-l'Isle	33	422 km SW	3,167	49.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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