Pennedepie

Identity

Pennedepie (INSEE 14492) is in Calvados (14), part of CC du Pays de Honfleur-Beuzeville. Population 306 (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/14492-pennedepie

Vitality score

Vitality score 26.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 66 % of the 17,889 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.

Services

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (DCD). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (AUBERGE DU MOULIN SAINT GEORGES). ^[4]

2 × Hotel (LES JARDINS DE COPPELIA · LE ROMANTICA). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 313 (2012) → 306 (2023): -2.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 234 (1990) → 306 (2023): 30.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 226, of which 34.5 % second homes and 4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Équemauville): 3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Cricquebœuf): 2.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Cricquebœuf): 2.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Honfleur): 3.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Équemauville): 2.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

An average of 4 days a year at or above 30 °C and 24 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ST GATIEN DES B weather station, 4.8 km away at 139 m; the village itself is at 21 m. ^[11]

The village sits 118 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ST GATIEN DES B, 4.8 km away at 139 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 118 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 914 mm of rain a year, spread over 141 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ST GATIEN DES B, 4.8 km away at 139 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14492/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14492/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14492/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14492/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 14243
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 14202
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 14333
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024