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Languenan

Côtes-d'Armor · CA Dinan Agglomération · INSEE 22105

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

Few services 29.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 23 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Languenan (INSEE 22105) is in Côtes-d'Armor (22), part of CA Dinan Agglomération. Population 1,170 (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/22105-languenan

Vitality score

Vitality score 29.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 23 % of the 13,376 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 food0250
Social0.2203.93
Education0.63106.32
Health0100
Public & culture0.250.98
Population trend0.94109.43
Housing mix0.8354.16

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 1 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. [3,4]

1 × Café / bar. [4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE DE LANGUENAN · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINTE ANNE). [3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE LANGUENAN). [3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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 / bar1INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)2ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE DE LANGUENAN · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINTE ANNEINSEE BPE 2 [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]
Library1BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE LANGUENANINSEE 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: 792 2023: 1,170 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,136 (2012) → 1,170 (2023): 3 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 811 (1990) → 1,170 (2023): 44.3 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 620, of which 8.4 % second homes and 10.6 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 3.0 km NE (Pleslin-Trigavou)Pharmacy — 4.3 km SW (Corseul)Bakery — 4.6 km SW (Corseul)GP — 4.6 km SW (Corseul)
In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.0 km NEPharmacy — 4.3 km SWBakery — 4.6 km SWGP — 4.6 km SW 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 (Corseul): 4.6 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Pleslin-Trigavou): 3 km to the north-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Corseul): 4.6 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Corseul): 4.3 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Languenan): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). [10]

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 1 day a year at or above 30 °C and 7 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the SAINT-CAST-LE-G weather station, 17.2 km away at 35 m; the village itself is at 103 m. [11]

The village sits 68 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. [11]

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

Humidity measured at SAINT-CAST-LE-G, 17.2 km away at 35 m, over 21 summers. [11]

That station sits 68 m below 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 828 mm of rain a year, spread over 132 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at PLESLIN-TRIGAVO, 3.3 km away at 70 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 — 22105/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22105/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22105/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22105/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 22048
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 22190
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 22105
  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
Froberville76224 km NE1,19327.5Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 85 %
Campigny27215 km NE1,08525.5Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %
Cruet73705 km SE1,05624.6Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 14 % · humidity 100 %
Douvres01631 km SE1,10427.6Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 23 % · humidity 100 %
Neuvy-en-Sullias45334 km E1,34827.3Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 39 % · humidity 93 %
Rossfeld67719 km E1,04327.7Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 7 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Campigny27215 km NE1,08525.5Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %
Froberville76224 km NE1,19327.5Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 85 %
Neuvy-en-Sullias45334 km E1,34827.3Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 39 % · humidity 93 %
Douvres01631 km SE1,10427.6Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 23 % · humidity 100 %
Cruet73705 km SE1,05624.6Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 14 % · humidity 100 %
Rossfeld67719 km E1,04327.7Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 7 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Languenan'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
Coat-Méal29178 km W1,13332.5Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Caouënnec-Lanvézéac2294 km W89943.9Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Subles14129 km NE69033.4Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Plourin29189 km W1,26831.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Plerneuf2256 km W1,12325Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Divy29163 km W1,60535.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %