Gonneville-sur-Mer

Calvados · CC Normandie-Cabourg-Pays d'Auge · INSEE 14305

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

Few services 31.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 55 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Gonneville-sur-Mer (INSEE 14305) is in Calvados (14), part of CC Normandie-Cabourg-Pays d'Auge. Population 652 (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/14305-gonneville-sur-mer

Vitality score

Vitality score 31.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 55 % of the 16,750 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.79	10	7.94
Housing mix	0.24	5	1.19

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 1 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 food shop and somewhere to eat or drink, but no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3]

1 × Restaurant (LES FRANGINS O GOLF). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

3 × Campsite (CAP FUN CAMPING LES FALAISES · CAMPING CSE ARKEMA · CAMPING LE LIEU CASTEL). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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	1	LES FRANGINS O GOLF	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	3	CAP FUN CAMPING LES FALAISES · CAMPING CSE ARKEMA · CAMPING LE LIEU CASTEL	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 462 peak 2012: 682 2023: 652 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 682 (2012) → 652 (2023): -4.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 504 (1990) → 652 (2023): 29.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 541, of which 38.1 % second homes and 5.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery Food shop — 2.8 km NPrimary school — 3.1 km NWGP — 3.4 km NWPharmacy — 3.6 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 (Gonneville-sur-Mer): 0.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Auberville): 2.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Houlgate): 3.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Houlgate): 3.6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Houlgate): 3.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 2.9▸

Days at or below 0 °C 33.6

Muggy days a summer 2.9

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. ^[11]

Measured at the BEAUMONT EN A. weather station, 9.9 km away at 140 m; the village itself is at 92 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CAMBREMER, 16.4 km away at 125 m, over 18 summers. ^[11]

An average of 828 mm of rain a year, spread over 140 days — about 5.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at DOZULE, 5.7 km away at 29 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 — 14305/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14305/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14305/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14305/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14305
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14024
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14338
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
Crillon-le-Brave	84	697 km SE	488	37.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 13 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Olmeta-di-Tuda	2B	1,037 km SE	583	39.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 61 % · humidity 57 %
Castels et Bézenac	24	498 km S	813	44.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 58 % · humidity 57 %
Regnéville-sur-Mer	50	113 km W	730	34.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Talasani	2B	1,061 km SE	847	30.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 86 % · humidity 43 %
Plévenon	22	181 km W	750	34.7	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 62 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Regnéville-sur-Mer	50	113 km W	730	34.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Plévenon	22	181 km W	750	34.7	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 62 % · humidity 86 %
Castels et Bézenac	24	498 km S	813	44.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 58 % · humidity 57 %
Crillon-le-Brave	84	697 km SE	488	37.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 13 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Olmeta-di-Tuda	2B	1,037 km SE	583	39.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 61 % · humidity 57 %
Talasani	2B	1,061 km SE	847	30.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 86 % · humidity 43 %

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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 Gonneville-sur-Mer'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
Dragey-Ronthon	50	124 km SW	785	40.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Beauvoir	50	131 km SW	419	41.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Genneville	14	25 km NE	806	43.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Cormeilles	27	31 km E	592	17.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Villers-sur-Authie	80	169 km NE	468	18.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Benoîtville	50	129 km W	640	29.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %

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