Esquay-Notre-Dame

Calvados · CC Vallées de l'Orne et de l'Odon · INSEE 14249

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

Few services 26.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 12 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Esquay-Notre-Dame (INSEE 14249) is in Calvados (14), part of CC Vallées de l'Orne et de l'Odon. Population 1,444 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/14249-esquay-notre-dame

Vitality score

Vitality score 26.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 12 % of the 11,930 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	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.95

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant (LE SPORTIF). ^[3,4]

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

3 × Hairdresser (VALERIE COIFFURE A DOMICILE · LM VOUS COIFFER · DA SILVA FIGUEIREDO SONIA). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	LE SPORTIF	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	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	3	VALERIE COIFFURE A DOMICILE · LM VOUS COIFFER · DA SILVA FIGUEIREDO SONIA	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [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: 290 2023: 1,444 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,433 (2012) → 1,444 (2023): 0.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 728 (1990) → 1,444 (2023): 98.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 552, of which 0.5 % second homes and 2.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 1.8 km SWGP — 1.8 km SWBakery — 1.9 km SWPharmacy — 3.4 km N 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 (Évrecy): 1.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Évrecy): 1.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Évrecy): 1.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Fontaine-Étoupefour): 3.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Esquay-Notre-Dame): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

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. ^[11]

Measured at the CAEN-CARPIQUET weather station, 7.5 km away at 67 m; the village itself is at 79 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at CAEN-CARPIQUET, 7.5 km away at 67 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 728 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CAEN-CARPIQUET, 7.5 km away at 67 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 — 14249/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14249/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14249/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14249/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14257
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14274
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14249
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
Steene	59	288 km NE	1,405	25.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Exireuil	79	299 km S	1,578	26.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 56 % · winter 93 %
Manéglise	76	73 km NE	1,292	26.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Arbus	64	643 km S	1,226	24.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 81 % · humidity 14 %
Louvigné	53	118 km S	1,193	26.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Raedersheim	68	587 km E	1,173	29.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Manéglise	76	73 km NE	1,292	26.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Louvigné	53	118 km S	1,193	26.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Steene	59	288 km NE	1,405	25.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Exireuil	79	299 km S	1,578	26.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 56 % · winter 93 %
Raedersheim	68	587 km E	1,173	29.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %
Arbus	64	643 km S	1,226	24.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 81 % · humidity 14 %

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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 Esquay-Notre-Dame'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
Manéglise	76	73 km NE	1,292	26.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Frénouville	14	17 km E	2,050	26.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Colomby-Anguerny	14	18 km N	1,353	36.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Hames-Boucres	62	257 km NE	1,439	26.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Winnezeele	59	289 km NE	1,261	27.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Guinoux	35	119 km SW	1,285	31.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

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