Chouain

Calvados · CC de Bayeux Intercom · INSEE 14159

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 13/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 24 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chouain (INSEE 14159) is in Calvados (14), part of CC de Bayeux Intercom. Population 229 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[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 13/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 24 % of the 16,761 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.62	10	6.17
Housing mix	0.98	5	4.9

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 1 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. ^[3,4]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), 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]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	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	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 135 2023: 229 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 212 (2012) → 229 (2023): 8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 205 (1990) → 229 (2023): 11.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 98, of which 1 % second homes and 7.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.9 km EGP — 3.7 km SFood shop — 3.8 km SBakery — 4.1 km SPharmacy — 7.8 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 (Tilly-sur-Seulles): 4.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Tilly-sur-Seulles): 3.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Tilly-sur-Seulles): 3.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Vigor-le-Grand): 7.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Audrieu): 2.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 4.1

Days at or below 0 °C 15.1▸

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 4 days a year at or above 30 °C and 15 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the BAYEUX weather station, 8.9 km away at 60 m; the village itself is at 63 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at CAEN-CARPIQUET, 13.6 km away at 67 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 835 mm of rain a year, spread over 139 days — about 6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SAINT VIGOR, 8.8 km away at 33 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 — 14159/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14159/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14159/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14159/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14692
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14663
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14026
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
Mingoval	62	264 km NE	228	12.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Tanay	21	481 km E	227	10.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 18 % · humidity 100 %
Warlus	80	202 km NE	230	12.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Bayecourt	88	533 km E	230	12.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 19 % · humidity 100 %
Vélye	51	349 km E	228	17.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 43 % · humidity 93 %
Craincourt	57	508 km E	226	13.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 38 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Warlus	80	202 km NE	230	12.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Mingoval	62	264 km NE	228	12.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Vélye	51	349 km E	228	17.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 43 % · humidity 93 %
Tanay	21	481 km E	227	10.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 18 % · humidity 100 %
Craincourt	57	508 km E	226	13.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 38 % · humidity 100 %
Bayecourt	88	533 km E	230	12.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 19 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Chouain'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
Damblainville	14	51 km SE	227	13.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Guéron	14	6.9 km NW	247	11.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Sassy	14	44 km SE	217	12.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Loc-Brévalaire	29	285 km W	210	11.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Maisoncelles-sur-Ajon	14	19 km S	208	14.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Canteloup	50	71 km NW	220	13	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

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