Merléac

Côtes-d'Armor · CC Loudéac Communauté - Bretagne Centre · INSEE 22149

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

Few services 23.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 41 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Merléac (INSEE 22149) is in Côtes-d'Armor (22), part of CC Loudéac Communauté - Bretagne Centre. Population 481 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/22149-merleac

Vitality score

Vitality score 23.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 41 % of the 17,860 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.45	10	4.51
Housing mix	0.63	5	3.17

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 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”.

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

1 × Café / bar (LE SALTIMB'ARTS). ^[4]

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie).

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, 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]
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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE SALTIMB'ARTS	INSEE SIRENE 1 [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)	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: 885 2023: 481 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 479 (2012) → 481 (2023): 0.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 506 (1990) → 481 (2023): -4.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 339, of which 18.3 % second homes and 15 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 4.2 km SFood shop — 4.4 km EBakery — 5.3 km NWPharmacy — 10.3 km S 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 (Saint-Martin-des-Prés): 5.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Uzel): 4.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Le Quillio): 4.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Caradec): 10.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Merléac): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 2.6▸

Days at or below 0 °C 22.1

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 3 days a year at or above 30 °C and 22 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the PLOUGUENAST weather station, 11.2 km away at 235 m; the village itself is at 252 m. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at PLOUGUENAST, 11.2 km away at 235 m, over 30 summers. ^[13]

An average of 977 mm of rain a year, spread over 145 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at UZEL, 3.9 km away at 203 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22149/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22149/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22149/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22149/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 22313
INSEE BPE 2025 — 22384
INSEE BPE 2025 — 22260
INSEE BPE 2025 — 22279
INSEE BPE 2025 — 22149
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
Sacey	50	110 km E	508	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Botsorhel	29	61 km NW	425	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Lestrade-et-Thouels	12	635 km SE	440	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 68 %
Broualan	35	95 km E	415	30.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Les Châteliers	79	288 km SE	445	25.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 51 % · winter 68 %
Vaureilles	12	578 km SE	485	18.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 19 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Botsorhel	29	61 km NW	425	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Broualan	35	95 km E	415	30.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Sacey	50	110 km E	508	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Les Châteliers	79	288 km SE	445	25.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 51 % · winter 68 %
Vaureilles	12	578 km SE	485	18.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 19 % · humidity 93 %
Lestrade-et-Thouels	12	635 km SE	440	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 68 %

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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 Merléac'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
Sacey	50	110 km E	508	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Botsorhel	29	61 km NW	425	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Péver	22	27 km NW	397	29.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-Neuve	22	44 km NW	413	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Duault	22	41 km W	385	28.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Haudricourt	76	373 km NE	461	18.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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