Courcy

Identity

Courcy (INSEE 14190) is in Calvados (14), part of CC du Pays de Falaise. Population 148 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/14190-courcy

Vitality score

Vitality score 17/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 58 % of the 13,969 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

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

1 × Café / bar (LE RELAIS DU PAYS D'AUGE). ^[4]

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]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 144 (2012) → 148 (2023): 2.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 152 (1990) → 148 (2023): -2.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 83, of which 15.7 % second homes and 8.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Jort): 2.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bernières-d'Ailly): 3.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Morteaux-Coulibœuf): 5.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Morteaux-Coulibœuf): 5.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Vendeuvre): 3.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

An average of 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 52 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the L OUDON LIEURY_SAPC weather station, 3.2 km away at 52 m; the village itself is at 55 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at L OUDON LIEURY_SAPC, 3.2 km away at 52 m, over 17 summers. ^[12]

An average of 676 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 5.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at L OUDON LIEURY_SAPC, 3.2 km away at 52 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

What property sold for

10 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 128,500 € — 1,410 € per m² of built surface. ^[13]

The median across Calvados is 2,026 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[13]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14190/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14190/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14190/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14190/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 14345
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 14064
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 14452
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 14735
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
13. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025