Ruca

Côtes-d'Armor · CA Dinan Agglomération · INSEE 22268

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

No daily shops 17/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 12 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ruca (INSEE 22268) is in Côtes-d'Armor (22), part of CA Dinan Agglomération. Population 595 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 17/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 12 % 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.

Component	Value (0–1)	Weight	Contribution
Daily food	0	25	0
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.59	10	5.94
Housing mix	0.43	5	2.16

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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 [3,4]
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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 637 2023: 595 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 586 (2012) → 595 (2023): 1.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 544 (1990) → 595 (2023): 9.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 415, of which 28.4 % second homes and 6.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Pharmacy — 3.0 km WFood shop — 3.2 km WBakery — 4.7 km SWGP — 5.4 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 (Hénanbihen): 4.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Hénanbihen): 3.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Matignon): 5.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Hénanbihen): 3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Ruca): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 3.4▸

Days at or below 0 °C 28.4

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 28 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the QUINTENIC weather station, 8 km away at 71 m; the village itself is at 56 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at QUINTENIC, 8 km away at 71 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 777 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at QUINTENIC, 8 km away at 71 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22268/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22268/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22268/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22268/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 22076
INSEE BPE 2025 — 22143
INSEE BPE 2025 — 22268
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-Pierre-du-Val	27	218 km NE	600	22.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Le Tronquay	27	294 km E	530	19.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 65 %
Chaumot	89	414 km E	708	22.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Bosville	76	257 km NE	584	20.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Cerisy	80	391 km NE	526	22.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Fatouville-Grestain	27	216 km NE	701	20.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Fatouville-Grestain	27	216 km NE	701	20.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pierre-du-Val	27	218 km NE	600	22.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Bosville	76	257 km NE	584	20.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Le Tronquay	27	294 km E	530	19.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 65 %
Cerisy	80	391 km NE	526	22.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Chaumot	89	414 km E	708	22.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Ruca'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
Saint-Pierre-du-Val	27	218 km NE	600	22.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Bosville	76	257 km NE	584	20.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Fatouville-Grestain	27	216 km NE	701	20.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Manneville-la-Raoult	27	213 km NE	474	21.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Fontaine-sur-Somme	80	350 km NE	502	18.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Graye-sur-Mer	14	161 km NE	773	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

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