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Viry

Saône-et-Loire · CC Le Grand Charolais · INSEE 71586

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

No daily shops 11/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 13 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Viry (INSEE 71586) is in Saône-et-Loire (71), part of CC Le Grand Charolais. Population 261 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/71586-viry

Vitality score

Vitality score 11/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 13 % of the 17,386 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 trend0.67106.65
Housing mix0.5352.66

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 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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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: 335 2023: 261 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 248 (2012) → 261 (2023): 5.2 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 224 (1990) → 261 (2023): 16.5 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 184, of which 23.4 % second homes and 7.1 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 3.1 km S (Vendenesse-lès-Charolles)Food shop — 3.5 km S (Vendenesse-lès-Charolles)Bakery — 6.0 km SW (Charolles)GP — 6.0 km SW (Charolles)Pharmacy — 6.2 km SW (Charolles)
Primary school — 3.1 km SFood shop — 3.5 km SBakery — 6.0 km SWGP — 6.0 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 (Charolles): 6 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Vendenesse-lès-Charolles): 3.5 km to the south (straight line). [9]

GP (Charolles): 6 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Charolles): 6.2 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Vendenesse-lès-Charolles): 3.1 km to the south (straight line). [9]

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 81 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the CHAROLLES weather station, 6.9 km away at 309 m; the village itself is at 291 m. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at ST-VALLIER, 19.8 km away at 280 m, over 13 summers. [10]

An average of 934 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at CHAROLLES, 6.9 km away at 309 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 — 71586/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71586/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71586/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 71586/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 71106
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 71564
  10. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Clermont-d'Excideuil24282 km SW2559No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 35 % · humidity 79 %
Lisores14415 km NW2609.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 41 % · humidity 93 %
Moitron-sur-Sarthe72379 km NW25814.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 46 %
La Crouzille63126 km W2627.4No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Le Bosc-Renoult61406 km NW26211.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 44 % · winter 42 %
Nottonville28281 km NW2799.2No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
La Crouzille63126 km W2627.4No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Nottonville28281 km NW2799.2No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %
Clermont-d'Excideuil24282 km SW2559No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 35 % · humidity 79 %
Moitron-sur-Sarthe72379 km NW25814.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 46 %
Le Bosc-Renoult61406 km NW26211.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 44 % · winter 42 %
Lisores14415 km NW2609.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 41 % · 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 Viry'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
Neuville19246 km SW2017.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Hautefage19238 km SW3138.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Vaudebarrier716.8 km S2119.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Bonnet-Elvert19238 km SW23410.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Chissey-lès-Mâcon7132 km E23516.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-du-Lac7133 km SW23417.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %