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Montfiquet

Calvados · CC Isigny-Omaha Intercom · INSEE 14445

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

No daily shops 10/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 30 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montfiquet (INSEE 14445) is in Calvados (14), part of CC Isigny-Omaha Intercom. Population 81 (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/14445-montfiquet

Vitality score

Vitality score 10/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 30 % of the 8,579 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 trend0.43104.31
Housing mix0.8354.17

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
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 [3,4]
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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hotel0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 95 peak 2017: 106 2023: 81 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 83 (2012) → 81 (2023): -2.4 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 87 (1990) → 81 (2023): -6.9 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 48, of which 8.3 % second homes and 12.5 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 3.5 km E (Balleroy-sur-Drôme)Food shop — 3.5 km E (Balleroy-sur-Drôme)GP — 3.5 km E (Balleroy-sur-Drôme)Primary school — 3.7 km E (Balleroy-sur-Drôme)Pharmacy — 7.9 km N (Le Molay-Littry)
Bakery — 3.5 km EFood shop — 3.5 km EGP — 3.5 km EPrimary school — 3.7 km EPharmacy — 7.9 km N 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 (Balleroy-sur-Drôme): 3.5 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Balleroy-sur-Drôme): 3.5 km to the east (straight line). [8]

GP (Balleroy-sur-Drôme): 3.5 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Le Molay-Littry): 7.9 km to the north (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Balleroy-sur-Drôme): 3.7 km to the east (straight line). [8]

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. [10]

Measured at the VAUBADON weather station, 5.6 km away at 105 m; the village itself is at 102 m. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at VAUBADON, 5.6 km away at 105 m, over 11 summers. [10]

An average of 974 mm of rain a year, spread over 149 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at LITTEAU, 3.7 km away at 125 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14445/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14445/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14445/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14445/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 14035
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 14370
  10. 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
Sentous65664 km S817No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 76 % · humidity 79 %
Lizeray36320 km SE818.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 51 % · humidity 100 %
Vulaines-lès-Provins77308 km E8016.7No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Sauvagny03410 km SE826.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Vraincourt52453 km E817.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Mont-Disse64627 km S8110.8No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 31 % · winter 96 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Vulaines-lès-Provins77308 km E8016.7No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Lizeray36320 km SE818.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 51 % · humidity 100 %
Sauvagny03410 km SE826.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Vraincourt52453 km E817.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Mont-Disse64627 km S8110.8No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 31 % · winter 96 %
Sentous65664 km S817No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 76 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Montfiquet'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
Pierrepont1452 km SE839.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Barville2799 km E8616No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Marant62243 km NE738.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Les Places2795 km E7314.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Montreuil-la-Cambe6175 km SE809.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Montrabot507.1 km S708.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %