Sainte-Honorine-du-Fay

Calvados · CC Vallées de l'Orne et de l'Odon · INSEE 14592

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

Partly served 46.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 70 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sainte-Honorine-du-Fay (INSEE 14592) is in Calvados (14), part of CC Vallées de l'Orne et de l'Odon. Population 1,362 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/14592-sainte-honorine-du-fay

Vitality score

Vitality score 46.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 70 % of the 12,294 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.78	10	7.79
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.83

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (L'EPIS DE ST HO). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE PERE ET FILLE). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (L'AVIDO · C'EST QUOI CE TRUCK). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE FAYACAIN). ^[4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ANEMONE DELEARDE, MÉDECIN · ALEXANDRA TSAGOURIA, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE SAINTE HONORINE). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINTE HONORINE DU FAY AP). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (COCOON COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	L'EPIS DE ST HO	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BOUCHERIE PERE ET FILLE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	2	L'AVIDO · C'EST QUOI CE TRUCK	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE FAYACAIN	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	ANEMONE DELEARDE, MÉDECIN · ALEXANDRA TSAGOURIA, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE SAINTE HONORINE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	SAINTE HONORINE DU FAY 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	1	COCOON COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 495 2023: 1,362 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,314 (2012) → 1,362 (2023): 3.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,065 (1990) → 1,362 (2023): 27.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 574, of which 1.7 % second homes and 3.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Sainte-Honorine-du-Fay): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sainte-Honorine-du-Fay): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Sainte-Honorine-du-Fay): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Sainte-Honorine-du-Fay): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Sainte-Honorine-du-Fay): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 4.9

Days at or below 0 °C 34.5

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 35 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the FRESNEY LE VIEU weather station, 10.8 km away at 175 m; the village itself is at 110 m. ^[9]

The village sits 65 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. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at CAEN-CARPIQUET, 11.9 km away at 67 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

An average of 870 mm of rain a year, spread over 135 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at MONTIGNY, 4.3 km away at 151 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

What property sold for

60 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 265,000 € — 1,345 € per m² of built surface. ^[10]

The median across Calvados is 2,026 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[10]

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 — 14592/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14592/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14592/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14592/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14592
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
Preignan	32	603 km S	1,202	47.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 84 % · humidity 71 %
Bourneville-Sainte-Croix	27	88 km NE	1,252	60.1	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Labergement-Sainte-Marie	25	566 km SE	1,273	46.5	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Spycker	59	291 km NE	1,718	44.8	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Gonneville-la-Mallet	76	81 km NE	1,338	49.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Deyvillers	88	524 km E	1,379	37.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 46 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Gonneville-la-Mallet	76	81 km NE	1,338	49.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Bourneville-Sainte-Croix	27	88 km NE	1,252	60.1	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Spycker	59	291 km NE	1,718	44.8	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Deyvillers	88	524 km E	1,379	37.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 46 % · humidity 100 %
Labergement-Sainte-Marie	25	566 km SE	1,273	46.5	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Preignan	32	603 km S	1,202	47.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 84 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Sainte-Honorine-du-Fay'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
Bourneville-Sainte-Croix	27	88 km NE	1,252	60.1	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Gonneville-la-Mallet	76	81 km NE	1,338	49.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Angerville-l'Orcher	76	80 km NE	1,395	60.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Verzy	51	339 km E	961	57	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Vieille-Église	62	276 km NE	1,511	45.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Marcey-les-Grèves	50	78 km SW	1,275	43.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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