Saint-Aubin-des-Bois

Calvados · CC Intercom de la Vire au Noireau · INSEE 14559

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

No daily shops 17.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 47 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Aubin-des-Bois (INSEE 14559) is in Calvados (14), part of CC Intercom de la Vire au Noireau. Population 226 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 17.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 47 % of the 16,695 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	25	0
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.48	10	4.83
Housing mix	0.76	5	3.8

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 × Café / bar. ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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

Type	Count	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 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	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	INSEE SIRENE 1 [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)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [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	0	INSEE BPE 0 [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: 351 2023: 226 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 223 (2012) → 226 (2023): 1.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 230 (1990) → 226 (2023): -1.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 150, of which 12 % second homes and 15.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.7 km NWBakery — 3.1 km SWFood shop — 5.8 km EPharmacy — 6.2 km EGP — 6.5 km E 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 (La Chapelle-Cécelin): 3.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Noues de Sienne): 5.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Noues de Sienne): 6.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Noues de Sienne): 6.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Beslon): 2.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 4

Days at or below 0 °C 18.4▸

Muggy days a summer 0.8

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 18 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LEGAST_SAPC weather station, 7.8 km away at 336 m; the village itself is at 148 m. ^[11]

The village sits 188 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 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at VIRE HIPPODROME, 17 km away at 100 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,190 mm of rain a year, spread over 154 days — about 7.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SAINT SEVER, 5.6 km away at 191 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14559/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14559/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14559/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14559/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50121
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14658
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50048
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
Aguts	81	634 km SE	238	23.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 99 % · humidity 29 %
Gancourt-Saint-Étienne	76	221 km E	231	18.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 54 %
Sarragachies	32	578 km S	217	15	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 86 % · humidity 29 %
Châteaubourg	07	622 km SE	227	19.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 13 % · winter 74 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Médard	64	591 km S	206	18.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 78 % · humidity 14 %
Sennevières	37	254 km SE	226	17.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 61 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Gancourt-Saint-Étienne	76	221 km E	231	18.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 54 %
Sennevières	37	254 km SE	226	17.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 61 % · humidity 86 %
Sarragachies	32	578 km S	217	15	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 86 % · humidity 29 %
Saint-Médard	64	591 km S	206	18.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 78 % · humidity 14 %
Châteaubourg	07	622 km SE	227	19.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 13 % · winter 74 % · humidity 79 %
Aguts	81	634 km SE	238	23.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 99 % · humidity 29 %

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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 Saint-Aubin-des-Bois'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
Saint-Gildas	22	145 km W	248	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Connec	22	151 km SW	258	16.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Biéville	50	33 km NE	198	23	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Le Mesnil-Garnier	50	14 km W	220	14.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Neuvillette-en-Charnie	72	106 km SE	305	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Mérillac	22	113 km SW	249	15.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

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