Rots

Calvados · CU Caen la Mer · INSEE 14543

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

Partly served 50.8/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 69 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Rots (INSEE 14543) is in Calvados (14), part of CU Caen la Mer. Population 2,544 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2016-01-01 from 2 former communes: Lasson (14356), Secqueville-en-Bessin (14670). ^[3]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/14543-rots

Vitality score

Vitality score 50.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Bakery (boulangerie)).

Better served than 69 % of the 8,149 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	0.47	25	11.83
Social	0.46	20	9.18
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.83	10	8.31
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.81

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 2 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (CHOCOLATS ROLAND REAUTE · LEONIDAS). ^[4,5]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE AUVRAY SELLOS). ^[4,5]

1 × Supermarket (CARREFOUR). ^[4,5]

5 × Restaurant (BILLY & CO · POLARIS · LE RELAIS DU COUP DE POMPE · LE BISCUIT - CAFE CERAMIQUE · LE BIST'ROTS). ^[4,5]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ROMAIN PERROT, MÉDECIN · SOPHIE ABOO, MÉDECIN). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (ROTS AP). ^[4]

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

5 × Hairdresser (NORMAN KELIAN · UN TEMPS DE PAUSE · LA BARBE DE PAPA · LE SALON DE CLAIRE). ^[4,5]

2 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[4,5]

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

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Café / bar, Pharmacy. ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	CHOCOLATS ROLAND REAUTE · LEONIDAS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BOUCHERIE AUVRAY SELLOS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Supermarket	1	CARREFOUR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	5	BILLY & CO · POLARIS · LE RELAIS DU COUP DE POMPE · LE BISCUIT - CAFE CERAMIQUE · LE BIST'ROTS	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [4,5]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	ROMAIN PERROT, MÉDECIN · SOPHIE ABOO, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	ROTS AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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	5	NORMAN KELIAN · UN TEMPS DE PAUSE · LA BARBE DE PAPA · LE SALON DE CLAIRE	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [4,5]
Fuel station	2	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 1,372 2023: 2,544 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,400 (2012) → 2,544 (2023): 6 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,912 (1990) → 2,544 (2023): 33.1 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,092, of which 1.9 % second homes and 4.1 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, GP Bakery — 0.5 km NPharmacy — 2.6 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 (Rots): 0.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Rots): 0.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Rots): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Thue et Mue): 2.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Rots): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 4.6

Days at or below 0 °C 28.1

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 28 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CAEN-CARPIQUET weather station, 3.3 km away at 67 m; the village itself is at 59 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CAEN-CARPIQUET, 3.3 km away at 67 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 728 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CAEN-CARPIQUET, 3.3 km away at 67 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Bakery (boulangerie)

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14543/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14543/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14543/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14543/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14543
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14098
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
Huriel	03	385 km SE	2,536	41	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Mornas	84	683 km SE	2,569	51	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Gragnague	31	634 km S	2,553	57.7	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 21 % · winter 96 % · humidity 64 %
Pugnac	33	459 km S	2,453	58.9	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 99 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Germain	10	347 km E	2,437	50.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-en-Bresse	71	490 km SE	1,905	54.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Germain	10	347 km E	2,437	50.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %
Huriel	03	385 km SE	2,536	41	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Pugnac	33	459 km S	2,453	58.9	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 99 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Martin-en-Bresse	71	490 km SE	1,905	54.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Gragnague	31	634 km S	2,553	57.7	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 21 % · winter 96 % · humidity 64 %
Mornas	84	683 km SE	2,569	51	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Rots'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
Sainte-Feyre	23	385 km SE	2,566	57.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Treffléan	56	232 km SW	2,572	52.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Val d'Arry	14	11 km SW	2,496	47.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jean-d'Elle	50	38 km W	2,516	49.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Meillac	35	132 km SW	1,974	45.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Drefféac	44	225 km SW	2,288	39	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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