Cernay

Calvados · CA Lisieux Normandie · INSEE 14147

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

Few services 21/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 77 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cernay (INSEE 14147) is in Calvados (14), part of CA Lisieux Normandie. Population 137 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 21/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 77 % of the 13,366 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.79	10	7.92
Housing mix	0.72	5	3.61

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 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”.

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

1 × Café / bar (CHEZ ROSINE). ^[4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	1	CHEZ ROSINE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 139 peak 2012: 152 2023: 137 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 152 (2012) → 137 (2023): -9.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 106 (1990) → 137 (2023): 29.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 79, of which 13.9 % second homes and 6.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.9 km NEFood shop — 4.2 km NWBakery — 4.3 km NWGP — 4.6 km SEPharmacy — 5.6 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 (Valorbiquet): 4.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Valorbiquet): 4.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Livarot-Pays-d'Auge): 4.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Livarot-Pays-d'Auge): 5.6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Martin-de-Bienfaite-la-Cressonnière): 3.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8.9

Days at or below 0 °C 37.3

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 37 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SAINT MICHEL DE weather station, 14.2 km away at 140 m; the village itself is at 184 m. ^[11]

An average of 837 mm of rain a year, spread over 139 days — about 6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CERNAY, 0 km away at 182 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 — 14147/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14147/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14147/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14147/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14570
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14371
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14621
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
Lacajunte	40	606 km S	144	19.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 59 % · winter 82 %
Lamazère	32	608 km S	129	21.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 33 % · winter 99 %
Vernix	50	118 km W	154	18.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 85 %
Saint-Martin-des-Lais	03	361 km SE	122	13.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 56 % · winter 78 %
Cleyrac	33	479 km S	148	18.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 54 % · winter 95 %
Pécorade	40	599 km S	133	18.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 46 % · winter 95 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Vernix	50	118 km W	154	18.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 85 %
Saint-Martin-des-Lais	03	361 km SE	122	13.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 56 % · winter 78 %
Cleyrac	33	479 km S	148	18.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 54 % · winter 95 %
Pécorade	40	599 km S	133	18.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 46 % · winter 95 %
Lacajunte	40	606 km S	144	19.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 59 % · winter 82 %
Lamazère	32	608 km S	129	21.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 33 % · winter 99 %

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