Bordering municipalities

	Saint-Sauveur	Talmay
	Drambon	N	Heuilley-sur-Saone
		W    Maxilly-sur-Saône    E
		S
		Pontailler-sur-Saône	Perrigny-sur-l'Ognon

Typology

Maxilly-sur-Saône is classified as a rural municipality, because it is part of the a category of municipalities with a low or very low population density, as defined by the municipal density grid of the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques.^[3][4][5]

In addition, Maxilly-sur-Saôn is part of the attraction area of Dijon, of which it is a municipality in the crown. This area, which includes 333 municipalities, is categorized in areas of 200,000 to less than 700,000 inhabitants.^[6][7]

The zoning of the municipality, as reflected in the database European occupation biophysical soil Corine Land Cover (CLC), is marked by the importance of the agricultural land (59.6% in 2018), a proportion roughly equivalent to that of 1990 (59.1%). The detailed breakdown in 2018 is as follows:^[8]

• forests (30.7%)
• meadows (29%)
• arable land (18.2%)
• heterogeneous agricultural areas (12.4%)
• urbanized areas (7.1%)
• inland waters (2.3%)
• industrial or commercial zones and communication networks (0.5%).

The Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière also provides an online tool to compare the evolution over time of land use in the municipality (or in territories at different scales). Several eras are accessible as aerial maps or photos: the Cassini map (18^th century), the map of Staff (1820-1866) and the current period (1950 to present).^[9]