Pont-Melvez

Identity

Pont-Melvez (INSEE 22249) is in Côtes-d'Armor (22), part of CA Guingamp-Paimpol Agglomération de l'Armor à l'Argoat. Population 595 (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/22249-pont-melvez

Vitality score

Vitality score 37.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 74 % of the 17,131 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.

Services

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (PONT MELVEZ AP). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 681 (2012) → 595 (2023): -12.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 636 (1990) → 595 (2023): -6.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 431, of which 21.1 % second homes and 10 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Pont-Melvez): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Pont-Melvez): 2.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Bourbriac): 9 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Bourbriac): 9.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Pont-Melvez): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

An average of 1 day a year at or above 30 °C and 46 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LOUARGAT weather station, 11.4 km away at 148 m; the village itself is at 238 m. ^[10]

The village sits 90 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at LOUARGAT, 11.4 km away at 148 m, over 22 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 90 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 1,220 mm of rain a year, spread over 162 days — about 7.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BULAT-PESTIVIEN, 1.7 km away at 250 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

What property sold for

82 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 87,000 € — 913 € per m² of built surface. ^[11]

The median across Côtes-d'Armor is 1,539 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[11]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22249/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22249/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22249/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22249/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 22249
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 22013
10. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
11. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025