Mérillac

Côtes-d'Armor · CC Loudéac Communauté - Bretagne Centre · INSEE 22148

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

No daily shops 15.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 32 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Mérillac (INSEE 22148) is in Côtes-d'Armor (22), part of CC Loudéac Communauté - Bretagne Centre. Population 249 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[2]

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

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Vitality score

Vitality score 15.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 32 % of the 17,194 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	25	0
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.43	10	4.33
Housing mix	0.51	5	2.55

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (MERILLAC BAR). ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	1	MERILLAC BAR	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 385 2023: 249 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 239 (2012) → 249 (2023): 4.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 267 (1990) → 249 (2023): -6.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 192, of which 24.5 % second homes and 12 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 3.1 km NPrimary school — 3.4 km NWGP — 3.9 km NEFood shop — 4.4 km SWPharmacy — 12.1 km NE 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 (Le Mené): 3.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Vran): 4.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Éréac): 3.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Broons): 12.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Le Mené): 3.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.6

Days at or below 0 °C 29

Muggy days a summer 0.5

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 29 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the MERDRIGNAC weather station, 7.9 km away at 145 m; the village itself is at 146 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at TREMEUR, 12.9 km away at 69 m, over 12 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 77 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,001 mm of rain a year, spread over 144 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at SAINT-VRAN, 7.1 km away at 282 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22148/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22148/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22148/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22148/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 22046
INSEE BPE 2025 — 22333
INSEE BPE 2025 — 22053
INSEE BPE 2025 — 22020
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
Bars	24	439 km SE	246	17.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %
Rayssac	81	618 km SE	234	13.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 64 % · humidity 86 %
Serres-et-Montguyard	24	454 km SE	231	22.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 72 % · humidity 71 %
Boussay	37	293 km SE	237	17.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Saulzet-le-Froid	63	497 km SE	284	19.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 27 % · humidity 93 %
Le Mesnil-Garnier	50	105 km NE	220	14.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Le Mesnil-Garnier	50	105 km NE	220	14.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Boussay	37	293 km SE	237	17.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Bars	24	439 km SE	246	17.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %
Serres-et-Montguyard	24	454 km SE	231	22.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 72 % · humidity 71 %
Saulzet-le-Froid	63	497 km SE	284	19.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 27 % · humidity 93 %
Rayssac	81	618 km SE	234	13.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 64 % · 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 Mérillac'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
Le Mesnil-Garnier	50	105 km NE	220	14.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Monthault	35	94 km E	248	18.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Connec	22	40 km W	258	16.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Kerien	22	62 km W	245	16.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Lisores	14	207 km NE	260	9.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Gildas	22	49 km NW	248	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

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