Aurseulles

Calvados · CC Pré-Bocage Intercom · INSEE 14581

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

Few services 22.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 3 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Aurseulles (INSEE 14581) is in Calvados (14), part of CC Pré-Bocage Intercom. Population 1,896 (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/14581-aurseulles

Vitality score

Vitality score 22.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 3 % of the 9,948 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	20	0
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.63	10	6.27
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.66

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 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 1 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 a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (ELOISE FINEL). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (HÔTEL CHÂTEAU DU BÛ). ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	ELOISE FINEL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	HÔTEL CHÂTEAU DU BÛ	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 1,590 peak 2012: 1,969 2023: 1,896 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,969 (2012) → 1,896 (2023): -3.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,682 (1990) → 1,896 (2023): 12.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 850, of which 3.4 % second homes and 7.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.2 km SEBakery — 4.6 km NEFood shop — 4.9 km NWPharmacy — 6.4 km SEGP — 6.8 km SE 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 (Aurseulles): 4.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Cahagnolles): 4.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Villers-Bocage): 6.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Villers-Bocage): 6.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Aurseulles): 2.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 3.1▸

Days at or below 0 °C 22.5

Muggy days a summer 0.9

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 3 days a year at or above 30 °C and 23 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LIVRY weather station, 4.4 km away at 194 m; the village itself is at 145 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at LIVRY, 4.4 km away at 194 m, over 15 summers. ^[11]

An average of 973 mm of rain a year, spread over 145 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at TORTEVALQUESNAY, 4.3 km away at 121 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 — 14581/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14581/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14581/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14581/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14581
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14121
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14752
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
Feigères	74	609 km SE	1,879	31.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 32 %
Lézigneux	42	534 km SE	1,739	30.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 46 % · humidity 0 %
Louzy	79	238 km S	1,288	26	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 38 % · winter 85 %
Domessin	73	627 km SE	2,005	33.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 47 % · humidity 93 %
Cauville-sur-Mer	76	81 km NE	1,678	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Creys-Mépieu	38	600 km SE	1,613	31.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 50 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Cauville-sur-Mer	76	81 km NE	1,678	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Louzy	79	238 km S	1,288	26	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 38 % · winter 85 %
Lézigneux	42	534 km SE	1,739	30.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 46 % · humidity 0 %
Creys-Mépieu	38	600 km SE	1,613	31.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 50 % · humidity 93 %
Feigères	74	609 km SE	1,879	31.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 32 %
Domessin	73	627 km SE	2,005	33.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 47 % · 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 Aurseulles'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
Cauville-sur-Mer	76	81 km NE	1,678	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Audrieu	14	13 km NE	1,167	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Lanrodec	22	182 km W	1,387	31.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Moustoir-Ac	56	210 km SW	1,775	35.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Père-Marc-en-Poulet	35	106 km SW	2,440	43.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Donan	22	175 km SW	1,477	34.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

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