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Barbey

Seine-et-Marne · CC Pays de Montereau · INSEE 77021

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

No daily shops 11.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 29 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Barbey (INSEE 77021) is in Seine-et-Marne (77), part of CC Pays de Montereau. Population 153 (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/77021-barbey

Vitality score

Vitality score 11.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 29 % of the 14,226 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 trend0.59105.93
Housing mix0.8454.18

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: 109 peak 2012: 181 2023: 153 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 181 (2012) → 153 (2023): -15.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 140 (1990) → 153 (2023): 9.3 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 85, of which 8.2 % second homes and 16.5 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 1.7 km E (Misy-sur-Yonne)Primary school — 2.4 km E (Misy-sur-Yonne)GP — 2.7 km S (Villeneuve-la-Guyard)Bakery — 2.8 km S (Villeneuve-la-Guyard)Pharmacy — 2.9 km S (Villeneuve-la-Guyard)
Food shop — 1.7 km EPrimary school — 2.4 km EGP — 2.7 km SBakery — 2.8 km SPharmacy — 2.9 km S 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 (Villeneuve-la-Guyard): 2.8 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Misy-sur-Yonne): 1.7 km to the east (straight line). [9]

GP (Villeneuve-la-Guyard): 2.7 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Villeneuve-la-Guyard): 2.9 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Misy-sur-Yonne): 2.4 km to the east (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 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the LA BROSSE-MX weather station, 2.9 km away at 77 m; the village itself is at 55 m. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at LA BROSSE-MX, 2.9 km away at 77 m, over 28 summers. [10]

An average of 674 mm of rain a year, spread over 113 days — about 6 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at LA BROSSE-MX, 2.9 km away at 77 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 — 77021/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 77021/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 77021/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 77021/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 89460
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 77293
  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
Montzéville55183 km NE15211.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Nogent-lès-Montbard21130 km SE1539.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
La Selle-Guerchaise35317 km W15314No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Droisy74342 km SE15516.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 54 % · humidity 86 %
Folleville80154 km N15416.6No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 70 %
Fouquescourt80158 km N15410.9No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Nogent-lès-Montbard21130 km SE1539.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Folleville80154 km N15416.6No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 70 %
Fouquescourt80158 km N15410.9No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Montzéville55183 km NE15211.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
La Selle-Guerchaise35317 km W15314No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Droisy74342 km SE15516.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 54 % · 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 Barbey'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
Lichères-près-Aigremont8992 km SE15413No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Les Rivières-Henruel51116 km E1569No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Maizey55191 km E1559No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Seigneulles55169 km E15310.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Aubin36185 km SW14810.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Ichy7742 km SW15711.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %