Épineuil

Yonne · CC Le Tonnerrois en Bourgogne · INSEE 89153

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

Few services 22.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 35 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Épineuil (INSEE 89153) is in Yonne (89), part of CC Le Tonnerrois en Bourgogne. Population 508 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 22.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 35 % of the 17,729 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.35	10	3.51
Housing mix	0.86	5	4.3

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 412 peak 2007: 619 2023: 508 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 618 (2012) → 508 (2023): -17.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 597 (1990) → 508 (2023): -14.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 344, of which 7 % second homes and 14 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 0.9 km WPharmacy — 1.1 km SGP — 1.8 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 (Épineuil): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Tonnerre): 0.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Tonnerre): 1.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Tonnerre): 1.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Épineuil): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 19.6

Days at or below 0 °C 53

Muggy days a summer 1.4

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 20 days a year at or above 30 °C and 53 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the TONNERRE JOUDRE weather station, 1.3 km away at 200 m; the village itself is at 169 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at TONNERRE JOUDRE, 1.3 km away at 200 m, over 20 summers. ^[10]

An average of 849 mm of rain a year, spread over 134 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at TONNERRE, 0.8 km away at 137 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 — 89153/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 89153/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 89153/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 89153/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 89153
INSEE BPE 2025 — 89418
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
Chaourse	02	203 km N	495	24.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Bazoches-et-Saint-Thibaut	02	162 km N	516	28.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Espaubourg	60	232 km NW	507	30.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Caisnes	60	195 km N	518	30.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Condamine	01	230 km SE	480	30.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 28 % · humidity 93 %
Montreuil-sur-Brêche	60	221 km NW	497	28.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bazoches-et-Saint-Thibaut	02	162 km N	516	28.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Caisnes	60	195 km N	518	30.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Chaourse	02	203 km N	495	24.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Montreuil-sur-Brêche	60	221 km NW	497	28.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Condamine	01	230 km SE	480	30.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 28 % · humidity 93 %
Espaubourg	60	232 km NW	507	30.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 95 % · 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 Épineuil'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
Saint-Seine-en-Bâche	21	134 km SE	407	30.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Hessenheim	67	268 km E	614	29.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Villemotier	01	198 km SE	612	32.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Souzy-la-Briche	91	154 km NW	503	23.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Paley	77	93 km NW	483	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jean-de-Bonneval	10	34 km N	405	26.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

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