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Plumetot

Calvados · CC Coeur de Nacre · INSEE 14509

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school.

No daily shops 15.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 40 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Plumetot (INSEE 14509) is in Calvados (14), part of CC Coeur de Nacre. Population 200 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). [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/14509-plumetot

Vitality score

Vitality score 15.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 40 % of the 15,961 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
Social0.32206.32
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.27102.69
Housing mix0.8654.29

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 1 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant (L'ATELIER TRAITEUR). [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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]
Restaurant1L'ATELIER TRAITEURINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE SIRENE 2 / 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: 159 peak 1990: 260 2023: 200 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 229 (2012) → 200 (2023): -12.7 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 260 (1990) → 200 (2023): -23.1 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 98, of which 7.1 % second homes and 4.1 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmPrimary school — 1.0 km N (Cresserons)Food shop — 1.7 km NW (Douvres-la-Délivrande)Bakery — 2.2 km NW (Douvres-la-Délivrande)GP — 2.2 km NW (Douvres-la-Délivrande)Pharmacy — 2.4 km NW (Douvres-la-Délivrande)
Primary school — 1.0 km NFood shop — 1.7 km NWBakery — 2.2 km NWGP — 2.2 km NWPharmacy — 2.4 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 (Douvres-la-Délivrande): 2.2 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Douvres-la-Délivrande): 1.7 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

GP (Douvres-la-Délivrande): 2.2 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Douvres-la-Délivrande): 2.4 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Cresserons): 1 km to the north (straight line). [9]

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 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, 7.9 km away at 10 m; the village itself is at 36 m. [10]

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

Humidity measured at BERNIERES, 8 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, 7.9 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

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14509/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14509/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14509/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14509/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 14228
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 14197
  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
Guisy62209 km NE27521.3Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Storckensohn68560 km E1848No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 20 % · humidity 100 %
Zellenberg68576 km E32121.5Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 47 % · humidity 93 %
Mey57479 km E30928.8Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 57 % · humidity 100 %
Ponsonnas38674 km SE28816.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Novillers60187 km E39217.3No daily shopsno figures
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Novillers60187 km E39217.3No daily shopsno figures
Guisy62209 km NE27521.3Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Mey57479 km E30928.8Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 57 % · humidity 100 %
Storckensohn68560 km E1848No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 20 % · humidity 100 %
Zellenberg68576 km E32121.5Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 47 % · humidity 93 %
Ponsonnas38674 km SE28816.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 0 % · 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 Plumetot'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
Bougy1422 km SW37617.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Coutances5084 km W38713.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Authieule80218 km NE39321.3Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Yzengremer80161 km NE49021Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Allenay80160 km NE2539.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Oblinghem62255 km NE38425Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %