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Le Fournet

Calvados · CC Terre d'Auge · INSEE 14285

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

No daily shops 15.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 70 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Fournet (INSEE 14285) is in Calvados (14), part of CC Terre d'Auge. Population 77 (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/14285-le-fournet

Vitality score

Vitality score 15.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 70 % of the 8,160 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend11010
Housing mix0.6453.18

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 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 38 2023: 77 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 56 (2012) → 77 (2023): 37.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 43 (1990) → 77 (2023): 79.1 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 33, of which 18.2 % second homes and 3 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmBakery — 2.3 km W (Bonnebosq)Food shop — 2.3 km W (Bonnebosq)Primary school — 2.3 km W (Bonnebosq)GP — 2.3 km W (Bonnebosq)Pharmacy — 2.3 km W (Bonnebosq)
Bakery — 2.3 km WFood shop — 2.3 km WPrimary school — 2.3 km WGP — 2.3 km WPharmacy — 2.3 km W 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 (Bonnebosq): 2.3 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Bonnebosq): 2.3 km to the west (straight line). [8]

GP (Bonnebosq): 2.3 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Bonnebosq): 2.3 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Bonnebosq): 2.3 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 3 days a year at or above 30 °C and 34 days at or below 0 °C, over 14 complete years in 1995–2024. [9]

Measured at the BEAUMONT EN A. weather station, 6 km away at 140 m; the village itself is at 141 m. [9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. [9]

Humidity measured at CAMBREMER, 8.1 km away at 125 m, over 18 summers. [9]

An average of 955 mm of rain a year, spread over 145 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. [9]

Rainfall measured at BEAUMONT EN A., 6 km away at 140 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14285/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14285/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14285/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14285/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 14083
  9. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Mondon25499 km E779.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 56 % · winter 49 %
Vaux-le-Moncelot70469 km E7811.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 55 % · humidity 86 %
Ampilly-les-Bordes21377 km SE797.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 54 % · humidity 86 %
La Chapelle-Montmoreau24420 km S758No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Montmeillant08310 km E788.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 45 %
Dombasle-devant-Darney88454 km E786.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 69 % · humidity 86 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Montmeillant08310 km E788.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 45 %
Ampilly-les-Bordes21377 km SE797.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 54 % · humidity 86 %
La Chapelle-Montmoreau24420 km S758No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Dombasle-devant-Darney88454 km E786.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 69 % · humidity 86 %
Vaux-le-Moncelot70469 km E7811.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 55 % · humidity 86 %
Mondon25499 km E779.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 56 % · winter 49 %

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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 Le Fournet'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Lingeard5098 km SW806.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Léonard-des-Parcs6164 km S756.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Les Isles-Bardel1451 km SW7315.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Montreuil-la-Cambe6136 km S809.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Le Ménil-Guyon6170 km S848.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Marcouf1480 km W847.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %