Thaon

Calvados · CU Caen la Mer · INSEE 14685

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

Partly served 50.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 73 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Thaon (INSEE 14685) is in Calvados (14), part of CU Caen la Mer. Population 1,894 (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/14685-thaon

Vitality score

Vitality score 50.2/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 73 % of the 9,958 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.85

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 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AUX DELICES DES MOULINS). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (CARREFOUR EXPRESS). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (PETIT BRUNCH). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE CODE BAR). ^[4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ANNE BILLON, MÉDECIN · NICOLAS CHEVALIER, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (THAON AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE DE THAON). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (LES CISEAUX ROSES · CL' HAIR COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Hotel.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	AUX DELICES DES MOULINS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	CARREFOUR EXPRESS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	PETIT BRUNCH	INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE CODE BAR	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	ANNE BILLON, MÉDECIN · NICOLAS CHEVALIER, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE THAON	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	THAON AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE DE THAON	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	3	LES CISEAUX ROSES · CL' HAIR COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 573 2023: 1,894 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,453 (2012) → 1,894 (2023): 30.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,153 (1990) → 1,894 (2023): 64.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 788, of which 1.5 % second homes and 4.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP Food shop — 0.5 km WPharmacy — 0.5 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 (Thaon): 0.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Thaon): 0.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Thaon): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Thaon): 0.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Thaon): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 1.2▸

Days at or below 0 °C 18.5▸

Muggy days a summer 1

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 1 day a year at or above 30 °C and 19 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the BERNIERES weather station, 8.6 km away at 2 m; the village itself is at 27 m. ^[9]

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

Humidity measured at BERNIERES, 8.6 km away at 2 m, over 23 summers. ^[9]

An average of 696 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 5.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at BERNIERES, 8.6 km away at 2 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14685/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14685/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14685/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14685/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14685
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
Hurigny	71	508 km SE	1,959	52.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Le Temple-de-Bretagne	44	236 km SW	1,975	53.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 57 %
Les Montils	41	235 km SE	1,945	53.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 51 % · winter 73 %
Ottmarsheim	68	609 km E	2,054	52.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 34 % · humidity 100 %
Messigny-et-Vantoux	21	454 km SE	1,720	47.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 42 % · humidity 100 %
Blavozy	43	575 km SE	1,724	47.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 14 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Les Montils	41	235 km SE	1,945	53.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 51 % · winter 73 %
Le Temple-de-Bretagne	44	236 km SW	1,975	53.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 57 %
Messigny-et-Vantoux	21	454 km SE	1,720	47.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 42 % · humidity 100 %
Hurigny	71	508 km SE	1,959	52.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Blavozy	43	575 km SE	1,724	47.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 14 % · humidity 93 %
Ottmarsheim	68	609 km E	2,054	52.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 34 % · 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 Thaon'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
Creully sur Seulles	14	6.7 km NW	2,261	56.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Plonéis	29	308 km SW	2,409	51.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Dinéault	29	296 km W	1,853	49.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Pont-Hébert	50	50 km W	1,897	45	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Coray	29	281 km SW	1,856	60.7	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Vieux-Berquin	59	273 km NE	2,628	51.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

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