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Hémonstoir

Côtes-d'Armor · CC Loudéac Communauté - Bretagne Centre · INSEE 22075

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

Few services 27.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 38 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Hémonstoir (INSEE 22075) is in Côtes-d'Armor (22), part of CC Loudéac Communauté - Bretagne Centre. Population 687 (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/22075-hemonstoir

Vitality score

Vitality score 27.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 38 % of the 16,456 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0.21255.27
Social0200
Education0.63106.32
Health0100
Public & culture0.3251.58
Population trend0.52105.24
Housing mix0.9454.69

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 0 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. [3,4]

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE HEMONSTOIR). [3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)1INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUEINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library1BIBLIOTHEQUE HEMONSTOIRINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 470 peak 2017: 715 2023: 687 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 698 (2012) → 687 (2023): -1.6 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 671 (1990) → 687 (2023): 2.4 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 350, of which 3.1 % second homes and 8.6 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmGP — 3.8 km N (Saint-Caradec)Pharmacy — 3.8 km NW (Saint-Caradec)Bakery — 5.6 km E (Loudéac)
In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 3.8 km NPharmacy — 3.8 km NWBakery — 5.6 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 (Loudéac): 5.6 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Hémonstoir): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). [9]

GP (Saint-Caradec): 3.8 km to the north (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Caradec): 3.8 km to the north-west (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Hémonstoir): 0.3 km to the south (straight line). [9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 4 days a year at or above 30 °C and 31 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the LOUDEAC weather station, 4.9 km away at 130 m; the village itself is at 114 m. [11]

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

Humidity measured at PLOUGUENAST, 13.2 km away at 235 m, over 30 summers. [11]

That station sits 121 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [11]

An average of 867 mm of rain a year, spread over 129 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at HEMONSTOIR, 0.1 km away at 115 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22075/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22075/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22075/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22075/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 22136
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 22075
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 22279
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Pernois80421 km NE68628Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Vieilley25672 km E66430.2Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Crisolles60457 km NE91727.7Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jean-de-la-Neuville76285 km NE66525.5Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 95 %
Saint-Vincent-Cramesnil76277 km NE68926.6Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Santeuil95367 km E65822.6Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Vincent-Cramesnil76277 km NE68926.6Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jean-de-la-Neuville76285 km NE66525.5Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 95 %
Santeuil95367 km E65822.6Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Pernois80421 km NE68628Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Crisolles60457 km NE91727.7Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Vieilley25672 km E66430.2Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 62 % · 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 Hémonstoir'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Pernois80421 km NE68628Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Vincent-Cramesnil76277 km NE68926.6Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Gouy76320 km NE88825.4Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Le Fresne-Camilly14211 km NE95125.1Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Quiestède62466 km NE66321.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Ames62463 km NE67621.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %