Malherbe-sur-Ajon

Calvados · CC Pré-Bocage Intercom · INSEE 14037

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

Few services 22.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 28 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Malherbe-sur-Ajon (INSEE 14037) is in Calvados (14), part of CC Pré-Bocage Intercom. Population 578 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2016-01-01 from 1 former commune: Saint-Agnan-le-Malherbe (14553). ^[3]

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/14037-malherbe-sur-ajon

Vitality score

Vitality score 22.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 28 % of the 17,272 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	25	0
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.75	10	7.51
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.96

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[4,5]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 332 2023: 578 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 497 (2012) → 578 (2023): 16.3 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 462 (1990) → 578 (2023): 25.1 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 238, of which 0.4 % second homes and 4.6 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 5.6 km EBakery — 5.7 km EPharmacy — 5.7 km EFood shop — 5.8 km E 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 (Sainte-Honorine-du-Fay): 5.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Sainte-Honorine-du-Fay): 5.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Sainte-Honorine-du-Fay): 5.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Sainte-Honorine-du-Fay): 5.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Malherbe-sur-Ajon): 0 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 3.9▸

Days at or below 0 °C 26.9

Muggy days a summer 1.1

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 4 days a year at or above 30 °C and 27 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SAINT GEORGES D weather station, 9.1 km away at 185 m; the village itself is at 140 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at LIVRY, 14.8 km away at 194 m, over 15 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 54 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 870 mm of rain a year, spread over 135 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MONTIGNY, 3.5 km away at 151 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14037/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14037/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14037/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14037/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14592
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14037
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
Puydaniel	31	655 km S	575	25	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 85 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Mesmes	77	238 km E	579	24.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Erquery	60	223 km E	589	17.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-d'Heuille	58	360 km SE	565	20.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %
Luppy	57	504 km E	595	22.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 54 % · humidity 100 %
Herchies	60	193 km E	582	19.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Herchies	60	193 km E	582	19.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Erquery	60	223 km E	589	17.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Mesmes	77	238 km E	579	24.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-d'Heuille	58	360 km SE	565	20.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %
Luppy	57	504 km E	595	22.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 54 % · humidity 100 %
Puydaniel	31	655 km S	575	25	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 85 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Malherbe-sur-Ajon'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
Colomby	50	80 km NW	569	22.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Graimbouville	76	87 km NE	604	24.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Roëllecourt	62	257 km NE	516	18.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Aubermesnil-Beaumais	76	150 km NE	520	22.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Versainville	14	33 km SE	520	24.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Bricquebosq	50	98 km NW	638	24.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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