Cartigny-l'Épinay

Identity

Cartigny-l'Épinay (INSEE 14138) is in Calvados (14), part of CC Isigny-Omaha Intercom. Population 300 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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/14138-cartigny-l-epinay

Vitality score

Vitality score 17.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 37 % of the 17,873 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.

Services

A food shop, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 311 (2012) → 300 (2023): -3.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 273 (1990) → 300 (2023): 9.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 147, of which 11.6 % second homes and 4.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Moon-sur-Elle): 3.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sainte-Marguerite-d'Elle): 3.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Clair-sur-l'Elle): 5.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Clair-sur-l'Elle): 5.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Sainte-Marguerite-d'Elle): 3.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

An average of 3 days a year at or above 30 °C and 28 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the VAUBADON weather station, 13 km away at 105 m; the village itself is at 27 m. ^[11]

The village sits 78 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at VAUBADON, 13 km away at 105 m, over 11 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 78 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 974 mm of rain a year, spread over 149 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LITTEAU, 12.8 km away at 125 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14138/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14138/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14138/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14138/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 50356
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 14614
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 50455
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024