Meslay

Calvados · CC Cingal-Suisse Normande · INSEE 14411

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

No daily shops 17.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 29 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Meslay (INSEE 14411) is in Calvados (14), part of CC Cingal-Suisse Normande. Population 338 (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 17.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 29 % of the 18,030 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.56

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 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”.

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

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

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)	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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 196 2023: 338 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 231 (2012) → 338 (2023): 46.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 208 (1990) → 338 (2023): 62.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 136, of which 4.4 % second homes and 11 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.0 km NFood shop — 3.5 km NEGP — 6.3 km NWPharmacy — 6.6 km NWBakery — 6.7 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 (Thury-Harcourt-le-Hom): 6.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Cesny-les-Sources): 3.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Thury-Harcourt-le-Hom): 6.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Thury-Harcourt-le-Hom): 6.6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Cesny-les-Sources): 3 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 4.3

Days at or below 0 °C 41

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 4 days a year at or above 30 °C and 41 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the FRESNEY LE VIEU weather station, 6.1 km away at 175 m; the village itself is at 190 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at ST SYLVAIN_SAPC, 16.4 km away at 62 m, over 14 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 128 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 830 mm of rain a year, spread over 134 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at FRESNEY LE VIEU, 6.1 km away at 175 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 — 14411/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14411/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14411/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14411/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14689
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14150
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
Villy-le-Moutier	21	454 km SE	337	17.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Pignols	63	461 km SE	337	16.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Geay	79	231 km S	338	10.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Faux-Fresnay	51	319 km E	343	10.9	No daily shops	no figures
Vaudemange	51	337 km E	333	17.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Ueberstrass	68	580 km E	333	12	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Geay	79	231 km S	338	10.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Faux-Fresnay	51	319 km E	343	10.9	No daily shops	no figures
Vaudemange	51	337 km E	333	17.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Villy-le-Moutier	21	454 km SE	337	17.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Pignols	63	461 km SE	337	16.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Ueberstrass	68	580 km E	333	12	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 68 % · 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 Meslay'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
Attilly	02	277 km NE	337	9.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Millencourt-en-Ponthieu	80	212 km NE	337	10.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Brieuc-des-Iffs	35	130 km SW	330	12.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Fontaine-le-Pin	14	8.3 km E	333	13.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Noron-la-Poterie	14	41 km NW	332	15.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Voulpaix	02	321 km E	348	9.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

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