Fréhel

Côtes-d'Armor · CA Dinan Agglomération · INSEE 22179

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

Partly served 58.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 91 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Fréhel (INSEE 22179) is in Côtes-d'Armor (22), part of CA Dinan Agglomération. Population 1,611 (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/22179-frehel

Vitality score

Vitality score 58.5/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 91 % of the 11,118 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	0.47	25	11.83
Social	0.98	20	19.69
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.71	10	7.15
Housing mix	0	5	0

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 5 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 2 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) (AUX DELICES DES PAINS). ^[3,4]

2 × Butcher (boucherie) (LE MOINE MICHEL). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (MOHE). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (MOHE). ^[3,4]

2 × Fishmonger (BISTROT Z'A HUITRES). ^[3,4]

16 × Restaurant (POUPIOT PIERRICK · NOUS YORK FAST FOOD · O TOUBON · LES EMBRUNS · MIGNON JEUX). ^[3,4]

7 × Café / bar (LA CALE · KAP'TIPHAINE · CAFE DE LA PLAGE · LES 3 CANNES). ^[4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CHRISTIAN MADAY, MÉDECIN · ARNAUD BROC, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (FREHEL BASSET COCCINELLE RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE FRÉHEL). ^[3]

1 × Swimming pool (BAIGNADE AMENAGEE). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (LE PENNEC LAURENCE · LE SALON DES SABLES · ACTIF COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

2 × Hotel (HÔTEL DE DIANE · MANOIR SAINT-MICHEL). ^[3,4]

2 × Campsite (CAMPING MUNICIPAL PONT DE L'ETANG · CAMPING L'ARMOR - LA VILLE OIE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 4 × Restaurant, 1 × Pharmacy, 1 × Hotel.

Not found in the commune: Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	AUX DELICES DES PAINS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	2	LE MOINE MICHEL	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	MOHE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	MOHE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	2	BISTROT Z'A HUITRES	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Restaurant	16	POUPIOT PIERRICK · NOUS YORK FAST FOOD · O TOUBON · LES EMBRUNS · MIGNON JEUX	INSEE BPE 16 / INSEE SIRENE 26 [3,4]
Café / bar	7	LA CALE · KAP'TIPHAINE · CAFE DE LA PLAGE · LES 3 CANNES	INSEE SIRENE 7 [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)	2	CHRISTIAN MADAY, MÉDECIN · ARNAUD BROC, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	FREHEL BASSET COCCINELLE RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE FRÉHEL	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	1	BAIGNADE AMENAGEE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	3	LE PENNEC LAURENCE · LE SALON DES SABLES · ACTIF COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	2	HÔTEL DE DIANE · MANOIR SAINT-MICHEL	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Campsite	2	CAMPING MUNICIPAL PONT DE L'ETANG · CAMPING L'ARMOR - LA VILLE OIE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,510 peak 2012: 1,624 2023: 1,611 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,624 (2012) → 1,611 (2023): -0.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,326 (1990) → 1,611 (2023): 21.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 2,183, of which 60.4 % second homes and 1.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 3.3 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 (Fréhel): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Fréhel): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Fréhel): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Plurien): 3.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Fréhel): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 1▸

Days at or below 0 °C 5.9▸

Muggy days a summer 1.1

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 6 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the SAINT-CAST-LE-G weather station, 8.9 km away at 35 m; the village itself is at 71 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at SAINT-CAST-LE-G, 8.9 km away at 35 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

An average of 707 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 5.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at PLEVENON, 7.1 km away at 61 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22179/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22179/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22179/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22179/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 22179
INSEE BPE 2025 — 22242
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
Lit-et-Mixe	40	518 km S	1,719	58.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 38 % · winter 46 %
Saint-Jean-d'Aulps	74	728 km E	1,492	63.4	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 22 % · humidity 93 %
Abondance	74	731 km E	1,583	64.4	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Julien-en-Born	40	515 km S	1,781	67.2	Served	no figures
Seyne	04	819 km SE	1,379	55.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 0 %
Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise	63	530 km SE	1,442	61.8	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Julien-en-Born	40	515 km S	1,781	67.2	Served	no figures
Lit-et-Mixe	40	518 km S	1,719	58.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 38 % · winter 46 %
Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise	63	530 km SE	1,442	61.8	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jean-d'Aulps	74	728 km E	1,492	63.4	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 22 % · humidity 93 %
Abondance	74	731 km E	1,583	64.4	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Seyne	04	819 km SE	1,379	55.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 0 %

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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 Fréhel'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
Piriac-sur-Mer	44	140 km S	2,685	63	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys	56	130 km S	2,004	57.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Groix	56	137 km SW	2,310	60.1	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Pleubian	22	62 km NW	2,365	54.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Trévou-Tréguignec	22	76 km W	1,603	49.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Cast-le-Guildo	22	7.5 km E	3,371	51.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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