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Saint-Maurice-aux-Riches-Hommes

Yonne · CC de la Vanne et du Pays d'Othe · INSEE 89359

A school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop.

Few services 28.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 62 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Maurice-aux-Riches-Hommes (INSEE 89359) is in Yonne (89), part of CC de la Vanne et du Pays d'Othe. Population 407 (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/89359-saint-maurice-aux-riches-hommes

Vitality score

Vitality score 28.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 62 % of the 18,000 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
Social0.32206.32
Education0.63106.32
Health0100
Public & culture0.3251.58
Population trend0.8107.96
Housing mix0.4452.2

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 1 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 1 of 3
Health 0 of 4
Public services 1 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. [3,4]

1 × Restaurant. [3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE). [3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (ST MAURICE AUX RICHES HOMMES AP). [3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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]
Restaurant1INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)1ECOLE MATERNELLEINSEE BPE 1 [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 postale1ST MAURICE AUX RICHES HOMMES APINSEE BPE 1 [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: 440 peak 2007: 445 2023: 407 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 436 (2012) → 407 (2023): -6.7 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 314 (1990) → 407 (2023): 29.6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 268, of which 28 % second homes and 7.5 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 8.6 km S (Lailly)Food shop — 9.0 km E (Marcilly-le-Hayer)GP — 9.2 km NW (Traînel)Pharmacy — 9.3 km NW (Traînel)
In the commune Primary school Bakery — 8.6 km SFood shop — 9.0 km EGP — 9.2 km NWPharmacy — 9.3 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 (Lailly): 8.6 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Marcilly-le-Hayer): 9 km to the east (straight line). [9]

GP (Traînel): 9.2 km to the north-west (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Traînel): 9.3 km to the north-west (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Saint-Maurice-aux-Riches-Hommes): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). [11]

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 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 68 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the FLACY weather station, 15.4 km away at 118 m; the village itself is at 111 m. [12]

An average of 735 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at PERCENEIGE, 9.6 km away at 165 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 89359/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 89359/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 89359/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 89359/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 89214
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 10223
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 10382
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 89359
  12. 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
Combressol19336 km S38629.5Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 82 %
Billy-sur-Oisy5897 km S38125.9Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 100 % · winter 82 %
Cestayrols81500 km S45527.5Few servicesWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 54 % · winter 77 %
Monestier24466 km SW38528.6Few servicesWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 84 %
Thoiré-sur-Dinan72237 km W39923.5Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 73 %
Haut-du-Them-Château-Lambert70245 km E44920.5Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.summer 64 % · winter 77 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Billy-sur-Oisy5897 km S38125.9Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 100 % · winter 82 %
Thoiré-sur-Dinan72237 km W39923.5Few servicesSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 73 %
Haut-du-Them-Château-Lambert70245 km E44920.5Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.summer 64 % · winter 77 %
Combressol19336 km S38629.5Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 82 %
Monestier24466 km SW38528.6Few servicesWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 84 %
Cestayrols81500 km S45527.5Few servicesWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 54 % · winter 77 %

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