Ryes

Calvados · CC de Bayeux Intercom · INSEE 14552

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

Few services 34.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 74 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ryes (INSEE 14552) is in Calvados (14), part of CC de Bayeux Intercom. Population 482 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/14552-ryes

Vitality score

Vitality score 34.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 74 % of the 17,875 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.48	20	9.5
Education	0	10	0
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.64	10	6.45
Housing mix	0.75	5	3.73

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 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”.

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (DAVID MENARD, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (RYES AP). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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	3		INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
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)	1	DAVID MENARD, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	RYES AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 377 peak 2017: 517 2023: 482 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 500 (2012) → 482 (2023): -3.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 421 (1990) → 482 (2023): 14.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 275, of which 12.7 % second homes and 8.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune GP Food shop — 2.7 km SWPrimary school — 2.8 km SWBakery — 3.0 km NPharmacy — 6.4 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 (Arromanches-les-Bains): 3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sommervieu): 2.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Ryes): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Vigor-le-Grand): 6.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Sommervieu): 2.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 4.1

Days at or below 0 °C 15.1▸

Muggy days a summer 1.7

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 4 days a year at or above 30 °C and 15 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the BAYEUX weather station, 7.7 km away at 60 m; the village itself is at 20 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at PORT EN BESSIN, 11.5 km away at 68 m, over 13 summers. ^[12]

An average of 835 mm of rain a year, spread over 139 days — about 6 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at SAINT VIGOR, 6.4 km away at 33 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 — 14552/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14552/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14552/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14552/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14021
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14676
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14552
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14663
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
Annebault	14	50 km E	521	37.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Mareuil-sur-Arnon	18	341 km SE	487	34.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 32 % · humidity 79 %
Seveux-Motey	70	509 km E	471	40.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 19 % · humidity 100 %
Varaize	17	378 km S	533	20.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Loulans-Verchamp	70	545 km E	460	41.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 28 % · humidity 93 %
Solterre	45	292 km SE	466	29.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Annebault	14	50 km E	521	37.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Solterre	45	292 km SE	466	29.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Mareuil-sur-Arnon	18	341 km SE	487	34.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 32 % · humidity 79 %
Varaize	17	378 km S	533	20.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Seveux-Motey	70	509 km E	471	40.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 19 % · humidity 100 %
Loulans-Verchamp	70	545 km E	460	41.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 28 % · 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 Ryes'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
Marais-Vernier	27	79 km E	469	19.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Audembert	62	239 km NE	424	45	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Lannéanou	29	241 km W	342	18.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Savigny	50	60 km SW	430	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Beussent	62	221 km NE	546	29.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Beuvrequen	62	233 km NE	458	39.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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