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Litteau

Calvados · CC Isigny-Omaha Intercom · INSEE 14369

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

No daily shops 14/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 24 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Litteau (INSEE 14369) is in Calvados (14), part of CC Isigny-Omaha Intercom. Population 271 (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/14369-litteau

Vitality score

Vitality score 14/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 24 % of the 17,546 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 trend0.75107.49
Housing mix0.8854.39

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 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

1 × Campsite (DOMAINE DE LITTEAU). [3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant.

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]
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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite1DOMAINE DE LITTEAUINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 253 peak 2017: 293 2023: 271 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 276 (2012) → 271 (2023): -1.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 217 (1990) → 271 (2023): 24.9 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 132, of which 6.1 % second homes and 1.5 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmFood shop — 4.2 km SE (Cormolain)Primary school — 4.3 km SE (Cormolain)Bakery — 5.2 km NW (Cerisy-la-Forêt)GP — 5.6 km NE (Balleroy-sur-Drôme)Pharmacy — 8.4 km SW (Saint-Jean-d'Elle)
Food shop — 4.2 km SEPrimary school — 4.3 km SEBakery — 5.2 km NWGP — 5.6 km NEPharmacy — 8.4 km SW 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 (Cerisy-la-Forêt): 5.2 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Cormolain): 4.2 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Balleroy-sur-Drôme): 5.6 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Jean-d'Elle): 8.4 km to the south-west (straight line). [11]

Primary school (Cormolain): 4.3 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

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 2 days a year at or above 30 °C and 34 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the VAUBADON weather station, 8.1 km away at 105 m; the village itself is at 117 m. [12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. [12]

Humidity measured at VAUBADON, 8.1 km away at 105 m, over 11 summers. [12]

An average of 974 mm of rain a year, spread over 149 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at LITTEAU, 1.2 km away at 125 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14369/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14369/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14369/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14369/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 50110
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 14182
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 14035
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 50492
  12. 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
Creyssensac-et-Pissot24468 km S27316.9No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Buzet47552 km S27414.3No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 91 % · humidity 71 %
Villexavier17422 km S26711No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 93 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Sulpice-de-Pommiers33502 km S27714.2No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 28 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %
Cuq47577 km S27812.9No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 5 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Caubon-Saint-Sauveur47514 km S26110.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 77 % · humidity 64 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Villexavier17422 km S26711No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 93 % · humidity 71 %
Creyssensac-et-Pissot24468 km S27316.9No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Sulpice-de-Pommiers33502 km S27714.2No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 28 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %
Caubon-Saint-Sauveur47514 km S26110.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 77 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Buzet47552 km S27414.3No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 91 % · humidity 71 %
Cuq47577 km S27812.9No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 5 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Litteau'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
Brémoy1420 km SE26216.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Vignats1467 km SE28415.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Lannoy-Cuillère60201 km E27813No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Sorbais02356 km E2669No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Villamée3580 km S30110No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Montabot5029 km SW2719.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %