Graye-sur-Mer

Calvados · CC Seulles Terre et Mer · INSEE 14318

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

Few services 20.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 14 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Graye-sur-Mer (INSEE 14318) is in Calvados (14), part of CC Seulles Terre et Mer. Population 773 (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/14318-graye-sur-mer

Vitality score

Vitality score 20.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 14 % of the 15,843 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	0.86	10	8.63
Housing mix	0.5	5	2.51

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

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (MAIRIE). ^[3]

2 × Campsite (CAMPING MUNICIPAL CANADIAN SCOTTISH · CAMPING CLOS DU MOULIN). ^[3,4]

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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	MAIRIE	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	2	CAMPING MUNICIPAL CANADIAN SCOTTISH · CAMPING CLOS DU MOULIN	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 416 2023: 773 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 637 (2012) → 773 (2023): 21.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 567 (1990) → 773 (2023): 36.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 406, of which 24.9 % second homes and 3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 0.8 km NEFood shop — 1.0 km EGP — 1.0 km NEPharmacy — 1.1 km E 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 (Courseulles-sur-Mer): 0.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Courseulles-sur-Mer): 1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Courseulles-sur-Mer): 1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Courseulles-sur-Mer): 1.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Graye-sur-Mer): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 1.2▸

Days at or below 0 °C 18.5▸

Muggy days a summer 1

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 1 day a year at or above 30 °C and 19 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the BERNIERES weather station, 3 km away at 2 m; the village itself is at 6 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at BERNIERES, 3 km away at 2 m, over 23 summers. ^[10]

An average of 696 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 5.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BERNIERES, 3 km away at 2 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14318/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14318/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14318/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14318/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14191
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14318
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
Chaumot	89	304 km SE	708	22.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Fatouville-Grestain	27	59 km E	701	20.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
La Rouquette	12	589 km S	777	20.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 43 % · humidity 79 %
Mouettes	27	142 km E	744	22.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 47 % · humidity 100 %
Burdignin	74	620 km SE	712	22.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Basse-sur-le-Rupt	88	552 km E	843	16	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 0 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Fatouville-Grestain	27	59 km E	701	20.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Mouettes	27	142 km E	744	22.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 47 % · humidity 100 %
Chaumot	89	304 km SE	708	22.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Basse-sur-le-Rupt	88	552 km E	843	16	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 0 % · humidity 100 %
La Rouquette	12	589 km S	777	20.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 43 % · humidity 79 %
Burdignin	74	620 km SE	712	22.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Graye-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
Fatouville-Grestain	27	59 km E	701	20.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Ruca	22	161 km SW	595	17	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Hymer	14	48 km E	656	10.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Tricat	62	239 km NE	773	23.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Fontaine-sur-Somme	80	190 km NE	502	18.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Crochte	59	271 km NE	659	22.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

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