Fresney-le-Puceux

Calvados · CC Cingal-Suisse Normande · INSEE 14290

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

Few services 22.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 19 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Fresney-le-Puceux (INSEE 14290) is in Calvados (14), part of CC Cingal-Suisse Normande. Population 808 (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 22.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 19 % of the 15,588 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.81	10	8.14
Housing mix	1	5	5

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 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 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”.

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

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 524 peak 2017: 822 2023: 808 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 757 (2012) → 808 (2023): 6.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 615 (1990) → 808 (2023): 31.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 329, of which 0 % second homes and 7.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.6 km NBakery — 2.9 km NWGP — 3.3 km NPharmacy — 4.1 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 (Laize-Clinchamps): 2.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Fontenay-le-Marmion): 2.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Fontenay-le-Marmion): 3.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Martin-de-May): 4.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Fresney-le-Puceux): 0.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.5

Days at or below 0 °C 31.4

Muggy days a summer 1.4

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 31 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the FRESNEY LE VIEU weather station, 5.7 km away at 175 m; the village itself is at 71 m. ^[12]

The village sits 104 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at ST SYLVAIN_SAPC, 10 km away at 62 m, over 14 summers. ^[12]

An average of 749 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 5.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at FONTENAY LE MAR, 3.2 km away at 58 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14290/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14290/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14290/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14290/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14349
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14277
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14408
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14290
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
La Rue-Saint-Pierre	76	130 km NE	800	25	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Naives-Rosières	55	409 km E	809	17.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Charly-Oradour	57	481 km E	810	24.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 38 % · humidity 100 %
Siros	64	636 km S	848	25.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 77 % · humidity 14 %
Lias	32	622 km S	794	24.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 18 % · winter 70 %
Saint-Martin-de-Bernegoue	79	314 km S	806	21.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Rue-Saint-Pierre	76	130 km NE	800	25	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-de-Bernegoue	79	314 km S	806	21.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Naives-Rosières	55	409 km E	809	17.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Charly-Oradour	57	481 km E	810	24.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 38 % · humidity 100 %
Lias	32	622 km S	794	24.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 18 % · winter 70 %
Siros	64	636 km S	848	25.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 77 % · 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 Fresney-le-Puceux'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
Émanville	76	115 km NE	791	24.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Barbery	14	6.0 km S	760	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Criquetot-sur-Ouville	76	112 km NE	817	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Tricat	62	257 km NE	773	23.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Belleville-en-Caux	76	122 km NE	738	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Heuqueville	76	72 km NE	717	21.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

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