Saint-Désir

Calvados · CA Lisieux Normandie · INSEE 14574

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

Few services 21.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 2 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Désir (INSEE 14574) is in Calvados (14), part of CA Lisieux Normandie. Population 1,756 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[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/14574-saint-desir

Vitality score

Vitality score 21.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 2 % of the 10,471 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	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.6	10	5.99
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.65

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 0 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUB CHARLES PIERRE). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (CAROLE COIFFURE · LE SALON DE MARIE). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUB CHARLES PIERRE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	3	CAROLE COIFFURE · LE SALON DE MARIE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 1,254 2023: 1,756 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,640 (2012) → 1,756 (2023): 7.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,598 (1990) → 1,756 (2023): 9.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 808, of which 3.5 % second homes and 5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 0.7 km NEPharmacy — 0.8 km NEGP — 0.9 km NE 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 (Lisieux): 0.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lisieux): 0.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Lisieux): 0.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Lisieux): 0.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Désir): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 9.4

Days at or below 0 °C 41.9

Muggy days a summer 3.3

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 42 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LISIEUX_SAPC weather station, 3.1 km away at 62 m; the village itself is at 53 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at CAMBREMER, 12.3 km away at 125 m, over 18 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 72 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 882 mm of rain a year, spread over 135 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LISIEUX_SAPC, 3.1 km away at 62 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

What property sold for

95 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 230,000 € — 1,252 € per m² of built surface. ^[11]

The median across Calvados is 2,026 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[11]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14574/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14574/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14574/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14574/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14366
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14574
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Cunac	81	600 km S	1,626	29.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Prim	38	537 km SE	1,478	31.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 23 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Mogneville	60	165 km E	1,487	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Angerville-la-Campagne	27	71 km E	1,433	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Fublaines	77	200 km E	1,370	26.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Pencran	29	335 km W	2,234	26.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 65 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Angerville-la-Campagne	27	71 km E	1,433	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Mogneville	60	165 km E	1,487	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Fublaines	77	200 km E	1,370	26.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Pencran	29	335 km W	2,234	26.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 65 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Prim	38	537 km SE	1,478	31.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 23 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Cunac	81	600 km S	1,626	29.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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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-Désir'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
Mogneville	60	165 km E	1,487	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Angerville-la-Campagne	27	71 km E	1,433	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Courmelles	02	226 km E	1,808	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Lévis-Saint-Nom	78	135 km E	1,603	27.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Pavace	72	123 km S	2,007	31.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Gasville-Oisème	28	123 km SE	1,467	33.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %

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