Maël-Carhaix

Côtes-d'Armor · CC du Kreiz-Breizh (CCKB) · INSEE 22137

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

Partly served 46.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 69 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Maël-Carhaix (INSEE 22137) is in Côtes-d'Armor (22), part of CC du Kreiz-Breizh (CCKB). Population 1,497 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/22137-mael-carhaix

Vitality score

Vitality score 46.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 69 % of the 11,652 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	0.34	25	8.55
Social	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.69	10	6.88
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.43	10	4.28
Housing mix	0.77	5	3.83

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 1 of 2

Everyday services 2 of 3

Lodging 1 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (ALIMENTATION VIRGINIE HOUARNER). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (BOURDON LEMAIRE MORGANE). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (LA FONTAINE). ^[4]

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

8 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ANTHONY COSQUER, MÉDECIN · CAMILLE MARI, MÉDECIN · THOMAS HERVIEU, MÉDECIN · JUSTIN BERTHO, MÉDECIN · ALEXANDRE NICOT, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (SELARL MAEN GLAS). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE MULTISPORTS). ^[3]

1 × Bank (CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL DES COTES D'ARMOR). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (LE REFLET D'L). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (MAIRIE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Primary school (élémentaire).

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)	2		INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	ALIMENTATION VIRGINIE HOUARNER	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	1	BOURDON LEMAIRE MORGANE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	LA FONTAINE	INSEE SIRENE 2 [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)	8	ANTHONY COSQUER, MÉDECIN · CAMILLE MARI, MÉDECIN · THOMAS HERVIEU, MÉDECIN · JUSTIN BERTHO, MÉDECIN · ALEXANDRE NICOT, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 8 [3]
Pharmacy	1	SELARL MAEN GLAS	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	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	SALLE MULTISPORTS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	1	CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL DES COTES D'ARMOR	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Hairdresser	1	LE REFLET D'L	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	1	MAIRIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 2,046 2023: 1,497 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,612 (2012) → 1,497 (2023): -7.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,613 (1990) → 1,497 (2023): -7.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,035, of which 11.7 % second homes and 16.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Maël-Carhaix): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Maël-Carhaix): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Maël-Carhaix): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Maël-Carhaix): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Maël-Carhaix): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.6

Days at or below 0 °C 38.7

Muggy days a summer 0.8

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 39 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the DUAULT weather station, 9.1 km away at 155 m; the village itself is at 202 m. ^[9]

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

Humidity measured at ROSTRENEN, 11.4 km away at 236 m, over 20 summers. ^[9]

An average of 1,076 mm of rain a year, spread over 149 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at LOCARN, 6.9 km away at 161 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 — 22137/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22137/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22137/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22137/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 22137
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
Saint-Jean-des-Champs	50	156 km NE	1,534	52.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 99 %
Thorigny-sur-Oreuse	89	505 km E	1,396	46.8	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Sagy	71	682 km E	1,249	44.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Montournais	85	263 km SE	1,630	47.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Clécy	14	228 km E	1,286	57.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 97 % · winter 82 %
Lasseube	64	607 km SE	1,735	52	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 95 % · humidity 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Jean-des-Champs	50	156 km NE	1,534	52.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 99 %
Clécy	14	228 km E	1,286	57.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 97 % · winter 82 %
Montournais	85	263 km SE	1,630	47.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Thorigny-sur-Oreuse	89	505 km E	1,396	46.8	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Lasseube	64	607 km SE	1,735	52	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 95 % · humidity 0 %
Sagy	71	682 km E	1,249	44.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 78 % · 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 Maël-Carhaix'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
Hirel	35	125 km E	1,382	45.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Mortrée	61	261 km E	1,115	44.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Corseul	22	95 km E	2,331	45.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Loyat	56	84 km SE	1,750	41.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Gaël	35	91 km E	1,613	47	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Hallencourt	80	430 km NE	1,351	38.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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