Val de Drôme

Calvados · CC Pré-Bocage Intercom · INSEE 14672

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

Few services 22.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 14 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Val de Drôme (INSEE 14672) is in Calvados (14), part of CC Pré-Bocage Intercom. Population 899 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2017-01-01 from 3 former communes: Dampierre (14217), La Lande-sur-Drôme (14350), Saint-Jean-des-Essartiers (14596). ^[3]

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 22.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 14 % of the 14,958 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.81	10	8.14
Housing mix	0.87	5	4.36

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[4,5]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[4,5]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 890 2023: 899 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 808 (2012) → 899 (2023): 11.3 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 684 (1990) → 899 (2023): 31.4 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 437, of which 6.4 % second homes and 11.7 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 1.4 km NGP — 1.7 km NEBakery — 1.8 km NEPharmacy — 1.8 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 (Caumont-sur-Aure): 1.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Caumont-sur-Aure): 1.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Caumont-sur-Aure): 1.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Caumont-sur-Aure): 1.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Val de Drôme): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

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, 4.7 km away at 194 m; the village itself is at 190 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at LIVRY, 4.7 km away at 194 m, over 15 summers. ^[11]

An average of 920 mm of rain a year, spread over 143 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LIVRY, 4.7 km away at 194 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 — 14672/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14672/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14672/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14672/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14143
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14672
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
Vaïssac	82	590 km S	964	24.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 57 % · humidity 64 %
Montesquieu	47	550 km S	733	19.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 77 % · humidity 57 %
Madaillan	47	544 km S	648	22.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 97 % · humidity 43 %
Chouppes	86	262 km S	802	29.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 68 % · humidity 79 %
Dhuys et Morin-en-Brie	02	315 km E	821	14.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %
Yvrac-et-Malleyrand	16	382 km S	559	22	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 73 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Chouppes	86	262 km S	802	29.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 68 % · humidity 79 %
Dhuys et Morin-en-Brie	02	315 km E	821	14.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %
Yvrac-et-Malleyrand	16	382 km S	559	22	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 73 % · humidity 79 %
Madaillan	47	544 km S	648	22.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 97 % · humidity 43 %
Montesquieu	47	550 km S	733	19.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 77 % · humidity 57 %
Vaïssac	82	590 km S	964	24.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 57 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Val de Drôme'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
Cambernon	50	41 km W	677	25.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Haudricourt	76	197 km NE	461	18.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Lennon	29	247 km W	812	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Beslon	50	35 km SW	562	26.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Thélo	22	177 km SW	371	16	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Criquetot-sur-Ouville	76	138 km NE	817	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

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