Mathieu

Calvados · CU Caen la Mer · INSEE 14407

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Partly served 51/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 72 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Mathieu (INSEE 14407) is in Calvados (14), part of CU Caen la Mer. Population 2,331 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/14407-mathieu

Vitality score

Vitality score 51/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 72 % of the 8,643 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	0.39	25	9.84
Social	0.39	20	7.87
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.98	10	9.78
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.81

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 2 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AUX DOUCEURS DE MATHIEU). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE MATHIEU). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (ROZE). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PIERRE RASSE). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (LOUISE TURGIS, MÉDECIN · DAMIEN LEREDDE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE JEAN MAROT). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (MELINE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	AUX DOUCEURS DE MATHIEU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BOUCHERIE MATHIEU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	ROZE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PIERRE RASSE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	LOUISE TURGIS, MÉDECIN · DAMIEN LEREDDE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE JEAN MAROT	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	MELINE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE 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: 964 2023: 2,331 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,957 (2012) → 2,331 (2023): 19.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,577 (1990) → 2,331 (2023): 47.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,054, of which 1.9 % second homes and 6.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 3.5 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 (Mathieu): 0.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Mathieu): 0.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Mathieu): 0.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Biéville-Beuville): 3.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Mathieu): 0.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 3.4▸

Days at or below 0 °C 27.1

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 3 days a year at or above 30 °C and 27 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the OUISTREHAM weather station, 9 km away at 10 m; the village itself is at 46 m. ^[10]

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

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

An average of 721 mm of rain a year, spread over 134 days — about 5.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at OUISTREHAM, 9 km away at 10 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 — 14407/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14407/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14407/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14407/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14407
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14068
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
Cepoy	45	265 km SE	2,332	58.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or	69	544 km SE	2,619	58.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 82 % · humidity 43 %
Contamine-sur-Arve	74	611 km SE	2,403	59.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 23 % · winter 26 % · humidity 93 %
Gestel	56	278 km SW	2,601	61.8	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Cubzac-les-Ponts	33	476 km S	2,693	54	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 100 % · humidity 57 %
Burbure	62	249 km NE	2,834	60	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Burbure	62	249 km NE	2,834	60	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Cepoy	45	265 km SE	2,332	58.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Gestel	56	278 km SW	2,601	61.8	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Cubzac-les-Ponts	33	476 km S	2,693	54	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 100 % · humidity 57 %
Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or	69	544 km SE	2,619	58.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 82 % · humidity 43 %
Contamine-sur-Arve	74	611 km SE	2,403	59.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 23 % · winter 26 % · 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 Mathieu'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
Gestel	56	278 km SW	2,601	61.8	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Burbure	62	249 km NE	2,834	60	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Coquelles	62	243 km NE	2,638	74	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Allennes-les-Marais	59	278 km NE	3,545	36.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Chéreng	59	297 km NE	3,078	38	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Meucon	56	245 km SW	2,280	53.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

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