Cambes-en-Plaine

Calvados · CU Caen la Mer · INSEE 14125

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

Few services 33.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 22 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cambes-en-Plaine (INSEE 14125) is in Calvados (14), part of CU Caen la Mer. Population 1,830 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[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/14125-cambes-en-plaine

Vitality score

Vitality score 33.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 22 % of the 10,199 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	0.34	25	8.55
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.98	5	4.9

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 0 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 1 of 2

Everyday services 2 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA FABRIQUE A BISCUITS · INTUITION GOURMANDE). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LE PANIER DE CAMBES). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (CAMBES EN PLAINE LPA AP). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE MULTISPORT LILIAN THURAM). ^[3]

1 × Bank (DAHAN CONSULTING). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (STUDIO L.M). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	LA FABRIQUE A BISCUITS · INTUITION GOURMANDE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	LE PANIER DE CAMBES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 PUBLIQUE	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	1	CAMBES EN PLAINE LPA AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	SALLE MULTISPORT LILIAN THURAM	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	1	DAHAN CONSULTING	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Hairdresser	1	STUDIO L.M	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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: 332 2023: 1,830 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,417 (2012) → 1,830 (2023): 29.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 972 (1990) → 1,830 (2023): 88.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 832, of which 1 % second homes and 2.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 1.8 km SEPharmacy — 1.9 km SE 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 (Cambes-en-Plaine): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Cambes-en-Plaine): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

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

Pharmacy (Épron): 1.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Cambes-en-Plaine): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 4.6

Days at or below 0 °C 28.1

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 28 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CAEN-CARPIQUET weather station, 7.8 km away at 67 m; the village itself is at 55 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at CAEN-CARPIQUET, 7.8 km away at 67 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 728 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CAEN-CARPIQUET, 7.8 km away at 67 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 — 14125/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14125/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14125/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14125/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14125
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14242
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
Saint-Bernard	01	530 km SE	1,590	40.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 51 % · winter 45 %
Sainte-Maure	10	340 km E	1,801	40	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Hérouvillette	14	10 km E	1,354	31.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Still	67	574 km E	1,793	38.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Damigny	61	94 km S	2,446	20.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Fontenay	76	55 km NE	1,766	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Hérouvillette	14	10 km E	1,354	31.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Fontenay	76	55 km NE	1,766	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Damigny	61	94 km S	2,446	20.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Maure	10	340 km E	1,801	40	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Bernard	01	530 km SE	1,590	40.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 51 % · winter 45 %
Still	67	574 km E	1,793	38.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Cambes-en-Plaine'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
Hérouvillette	14	10 km E	1,354	31.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Fontenay	76	55 km NE	1,766	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Pommeret	22	185 km SW	2,116	41.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Rogerville	76	56 km NE	1,734	21	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Grainville-sur-Odon	14	15 km SW	1,105	25.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Camphin-en-Pévèle	59	302 km NE	2,518	46.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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