Urville

Calvados · CC Cingal-Suisse Normande · INSEE 14719

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

Few services 38.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 68 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Urville (INSEE 14719) is in Calvados (14), part of CC Cingal-Suisse Normande. Population 779 (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/14719-urville

Vitality score

Vitality score 38.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 68 % of the 15,799 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.74

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 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). ^[3]

1 × Restaurant (DOCK BURGER). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PRIVEE NOTRE DAME). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: 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)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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	DOCK BURGER	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 PRIVEE NOTRE DAME	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	1		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: 484 2023: 779 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 559 (2012) → 779 (2023): 39.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 519 (1990) → 779 (2023): 50.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 302, of which 2.6 % second homes and 5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 1.1 km NBakery — 2.2 km EFood shop — 2.4 km SEPharmacy — 7.5 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 (Grainville-Langannerie): 2.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Grainville-Langannerie): 2.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Gouvix): 1.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Potigny): 7.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Urville): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.6

Days at or below 0 °C 29.4

Muggy days a summer 1.4

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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 29 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ST SYLVAIN_SAPC weather station, 5.9 km away at 62 m; the village itself is at 98 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ST SYLVAIN_SAPC, 5.9 km away at 62 m, over 14 summers. ^[12]

An average of 677 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 5.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ST SYLVAIN_SAPC, 5.9 km away at 62 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

What property sold for

47 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 225,000 € — 1,771 € per m² of built surface. ^[13]

The median across Calvados is 2,026 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[13]

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 — 14719/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14719/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14719/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14719/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14310
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14309
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14516
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14719
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
Huest	27	110 km E	775	36.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Forstfeld	67	609 km E	798	37.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 55 % · humidity 79 %
Wilwisheim	67	571 km E	772	39.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Germain-Laxis	77	226 km E	742	38.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Amigny-Rouy	02	269 km E	707	35.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Grundviller	57	530 km E	674	36.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 47 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Huest	27	110 km E	775	36.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Germain-Laxis	77	226 km E	742	38.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Amigny-Rouy	02	269 km E	707	35.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Grundviller	57	530 km E	674	36.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 47 % · humidity 100 %
Wilwisheim	67	571 km E	772	39.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Forstfeld	67	609 km E	798	37.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 55 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Urville'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
La Landec	22	153 km SW	761	31.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Hondeghem	59	279 km NE	916	45.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Winnezeele	59	287 km NE	1,261	27.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Maclou	27	64 km NE	680	46.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Fontenay-Saint-Père	78	150 km E	949	26	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Acq	62	258 km NE	783	47.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

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