Castine-en-Plaine

Calvados · CU Caen la Mer · INSEE 14538

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Few services 31.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 19 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Castine-en-Plaine (INSEE 14538) is in Calvados (14), part of CU Caen la Mer. Population 1,774 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2019-01-01 from 2 former communes: Hubert-Folie (14339), Tilly-la-Campagne (14691). ^[3]

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/14538-castine-en-plaine

Vitality score

Vitality score 31.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 19 % of the 10,394 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.96

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 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”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[4,5]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (EPICERIE LE VILLAGE). ^[4,5]

1 × Restaurant (HAY CA SENT BON ICI). ^[4,5]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE VENT DE PLAINE). ^[4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[4]

2 × Hairdresser (GALLOU COIFFURE). ^[4,5]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant, 2 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	EPICERIE LE VILLAGE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	1	HAY CA SENT BON ICI	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4,5]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE VENT DE PLAINE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	2	GALLOU COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [4,5]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 677 2023: 1,774 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,298 (2012) → 1,774 (2023): 36.7 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 789 (1990) → 1,774 (2023): 124.8 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 672, of which 0.4 % second homes and 3.6 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 2.2 km WGP — 2.5 km WPharmacy — 3.8 km W 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 (Fontenay-le-Marmion): 2.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Castine-en-Plaine): 0.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Fontenay-le-Marmion): 2.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Martin-de-May): 3.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Castine-en-Plaine): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.6

Days at or below 0 °C 29.4

Muggy days a summer 1.4

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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 29 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ST SYLVAIN_SAPC weather station, 7.5 km away at 62 m; the village itself is at 79 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ST SYLVAIN_SAPC, 7.5 km away at 62 m, over 14 summers. ^[12]

An average of 749 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 5.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at FONTENAY LE MAR, 2.2 km away at 58 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14538/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14538/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14538/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14538/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14277
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14538
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14408
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
Marigny-les-Usages	45	214 km SE	1,887	36.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Montbartier	82	589 km S	1,789	32.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 76 % · humidity 71 %
Sainte-Florence	85	263 km S	1,359	36.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 81 %
Lamasquère	31	635 km S	1,682	38.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 88 % · humidity 50 %
Valframbert	61	77 km SE	1,678	30	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Niévroz	01	544 km SE	1,662	32.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 49 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Valframbert	61	77 km SE	1,678	30	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Marigny-les-Usages	45	214 km SE	1,887	36.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Florence	85	263 km S	1,359	36.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 81 %
Niévroz	01	544 km SE	1,662	32.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 49 % · humidity 86 %
Montbartier	82	589 km S	1,789	32.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 76 % · humidity 71 %
Lamasquère	31	635 km S	1,682	38.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 88 % · 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 Castine-en-Plaine'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
Baguer-Pican	35	117 km SW	1,756	31.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Hames-Boucres	62	252 km NE	1,439	26.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
La Limouzinière	44	252 km SW	2,459	38.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Étienne-de-Mer-Morte	44	263 km SW	1,782	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Laignelet	35	101 km SW	1,234	35.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Chanteloup	35	157 km SW	1,912	38	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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