Varennes-Saint-Sauveur

Saône-et-Loire · CC Bresse Louhannaise Intercom' · INSEE 71558

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

Few services 39/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 56 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Varennes-Saint-Sauveur (INSEE 71558) is in Saône-et-Loire (71), part of CC Bresse Louhannaise Intercom'. Population 1,108 (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/71558-varennes-saint-sauveur

Vitality score

Vitality score 39/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 56 % of the 13,702 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	0.39	25	9.84
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.39	10	3.93
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.57	10	5.66
Housing mix	0.77	5	3.86

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 2 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 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BRETENET). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE FAMILIALE ADRIEN HUBERT). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (COURTIEUX SYLVIANE). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE SAINT SAUVEUR). ^[3,4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (BENEDICTE CLERC, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE SAINT SAUVEUR). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (VARENNES SAINT SAUVEUR AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE PÔLE DE VARENNES-ST-SAUVEUR). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (JOSCIA COIFFURE · DUO COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BRETENET	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BOUCHERIE FAMILIALE ADRIEN HUBERT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	COURTIEUX SYLVIANE	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	LE SAINT SAUVEUR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	BENEDICTE CLERC, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE SAINT SAUVEUR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	VARENNES SAINT SAUVEUR AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE PÔLE DE VARENNES-ST-SAUVEUR	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	3	JOSCIA COIFFURE · DUO COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 1,113 peak 2007: 1,165 2023: 1,108 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,117 (2012) → 1,108 (2023): -0.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,039 (1990) → 1,108 (2023): 6.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 639, of which 11.4 % second homes and 8.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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-Saint-Sauveur): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Varennes-Saint-Sauveur): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Varennes-Saint-Sauveur): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Varennes-Saint-Sauveur): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Varennes-Saint-Sauveur): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 24.7

Days at or below 0 °C 54.9

Muggy days a summer 3.8

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 25 days a year at or above 30 °C and 55 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the VARENNES-ST-SA weather station, 5.3 km away at 207 m; the village itself is at 215 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at VARENNES-ST-SA, 5.3 km away at 207 m, over 23 summers. ^[9]

An average of 1,042 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 8.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at VARENNES-ST-SA, 5.3 km away at 207 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

What property sold for

85 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 140,000 € — 816 € per m² of built surface. ^[10]

7 flats sold over the same window, at a median of 60,000 € — 923 € per m². ^[10]

The median across Saône-et-Loire is 1,210 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[10]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71558/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71558/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71558/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71558/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 71558
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Villandraut	33	492 km SW	1,112	54.1	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 50 %
Virieu-le-Grand	01	77 km SE	1,111	45.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Trie-sur-Baïse	65	520 km SW	1,006	51.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 82 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Broladre	35	568 km NW	1,153	50.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 76 % · humidity 86 %
Le Montsaugeonnais	52	133 km N	1,140	54.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 69 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Paul	87	305 km W	1,235	48.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Virieu-le-Grand	01	77 km SE	1,111	45.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Le Montsaugeonnais	52	133 km N	1,140	54.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 69 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Paul	87	305 km W	1,235	48.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Villandraut	33	492 km SW	1,112	54.1	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 50 %
Trie-sur-Baïse	65	520 km SW	1,006	51.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 82 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Broladre	35	568 km NW	1,153	50.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 76 % · humidity 86 %

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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-Saint-Sauveur'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
Montpont-en-Bresse	71	10 km NW	1,077	42.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Le Donjon	03	112 km W	1,007	48.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Chignac	24	372 km W	971	58.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Villefranche-d'Allier	03	183 km W	1,238	36.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Vendœuvres	36	299 km W	1,086	41.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Dignac	16	397 km W	1,362	39.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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