Monts-en-Bessin

Calvados · CC Pré-Bocage Intercom · INSEE 14449

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

No daily shops 12.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 10 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Monts-en-Bessin (INSEE 14449) is in Calvados (14), part of CC Pré-Bocage Intercom. Population 422 (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 12.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 10 % of the 17,974 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	0.63	10	6.31
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.62

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 1 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]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[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	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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 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: 294 2023: 422 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 419 (2012) → 422 (2023): 0.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 373 (1990) → 422 (2023): 13.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 185, of which 3.8 % second homes and 2.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

GP — 2.8 km NEPharmacy — 2.8 km EFood shop — 3.0 km EPrimary school — 3.0 km EBakery — 5.1 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 (Villers-Bocage): 5.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Val d'Arry): 3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Val d'Arry): 2.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Val d'Arry): 2.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Val d'Arry): 3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 3.9▸

Days at or below 0 °C 26.9

Muggy days a summer 0.9

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 27 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the SAINT GEORGES D weather station, 10.5 km away at 185 m; the village itself is at 148 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at LIVRY, 11.9 km away at 194 m, over 15 summers. ^[10]

An average of 870 mm of rain a year, spread over 135 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at MONTIGNY, 9.1 km away at 151 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 — 14449/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14449/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14449/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14449/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14752
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14475
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
Bas-Mauco	40	591 km S	421	17.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 76 % · humidity 36 %
Avrigney-Virey	70	512 km E	428	16.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 34 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin	32	628 km S	434	13.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 21 % · winter 85 % · humidity 50 %
Bussières	70	526 km E	427	15.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %
Sapois	39	554 km SE	408	15	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Lieusaint	50	75 km NW	408	13.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Lieusaint	50	75 km NW	408	13.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Avrigney-Virey	70	512 km E	428	16.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 34 % · humidity 93 %
Bussières	70	526 km E	427	15.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %
Sapois	39	554 km SE	408	15	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Bas-Mauco	40	591 km S	421	17.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 76 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Martin	32	628 km S	434	13.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 21 % · winter 85 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Monts-en-Bessin'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
Lieusaint	50	75 km NW	408	13.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Breuville	50	91 km NW	406	12.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Vergetot	76	85 km NE	435	17.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Bonnemaison	14	11 km S	398	13.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Hervé	22	188 km SW	425	11.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Hottot-les-Bagues	14	5.7 km NW	452	12.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

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