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Hénon

Côtes-d'Armor · CA Lamballe Terre et Mer · INSEE 22079

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

Partly served 49.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 66 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Hénon (INSEE 22079) is in Côtes-d'Armor (22), part of CA Lamballe Terre et Mer. Population 2,310 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). [2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/22079-henon

Vitality score

Vitality score 49.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 66 % of the 8,703 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 food0.34258.55
Social0.632012.64
Education0.39103.93
Health0.2101.97
Public & culture0.3951.97
Population trend0.83108.28
Housing mix0.8754.36

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 1 of 4
Public services 1 of 1
Culture 1 of 2
Sport 1 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). [3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (T' O BON MARCHE · EMPLETTES ET COQUILLETTES). [3,4]

2 × Restaurant (MA PLANCHE GOURMANDE · L'ECHOPPE). [3,4]

2 × Café / bar. [4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PRIVEE SACRE COEUR). [3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE LE RALL HELENE). [3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE D'HÉNON). [3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF). [3]

1 × Hairdresser. [3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)1INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)2T' O BON MARCHE · EMPLETTES ET COQUILLETTESINSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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]
Restaurant2MA PLANCHE GOURMANDE · L'ECHOPPEINSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar2INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PRIVEE SACRE COEURINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy1PHARMACIE LE RALL HELENEINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale1HENON APINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library1BIBLIOTHEQUE D'HÉNONINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall1COMPLEXE SPORTIFINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser1INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 1,889 2023: 2,310 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,211 (2012) → 2,310 (2023): 4.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 1,740 (1990) → 2,310 (2023): 32.8 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,085, of which 6.4 % second homes and 6.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmGP — 3.9 km W (Saint-Carreuc)
In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 3.9 km W 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 (Hénon): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Hénon): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). [8]

GP (Saint-Carreuc): 3.9 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Hénon): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Hénon): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

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 39 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the PLOEUC-SUR-LIE weather station, 8.5 km away at 196 m; the village itself is at 157 m. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at PLOUGUENAST, 14.1 km away at 235 m, over 30 summers. [10]

That station sits 78 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [10]

An average of 806 mm of rain a year, spread over 132 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at BREHAND, 8.5 km away at 91 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22079/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22079/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22079/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22079/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 22079
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 22281
  10. 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
Fégréac44101 km SE2,24344.9Partly servedno figures
Vernantes49232 km SE2,00455.4Partly servedWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Septème38663 km SE2,18646.5Partly servedWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 26 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Les Touches44141 km SE2,63847.6Partly servedWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Beaumont Saint-Cyr86297 km SE2,90856.4Partly servedWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Le Lardin-Saint-Lazare24469 km SE1,67249.6Partly servedWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 78 % · humidity 50 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Fégréac44101 km SE2,24344.9Partly servedno figures
Les Touches44141 km SE2,63847.6Partly servedWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Vernantes49232 km SE2,00455.4Partly servedWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Beaumont Saint-Cyr86297 km SE2,90856.4Partly servedWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Le Lardin-Saint-Lazare24469 km SE1,67249.6Partly servedWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 78 % · humidity 50 %
Septème38663 km SE2,18646.5Partly servedWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 26 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Hénon'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
Gaël3544 km SE1,61347Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Guégon5651 km S2,36547.5Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-Fleurigné35117 km E2,45151.5Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Corseul2240 km E2,33145.1Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Renescure59448 km NE2,11351.2Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Pédernec2249 km NW1,89344.2Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %