Saint-Michel-de-Plélan

Côtes-d'Armor · CA Dinan Agglomération · INSEE 22318

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

Few services 23/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 52 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Michel-de-Plélan (INSEE 22318) is in Côtes-d'Armor (22), part of CA Dinan Agglomération. Population 334 (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 23/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 52 % of the 18,024 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.71	10	7.06
Housing mix	0.77	5	3.83

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]

2 × Café / bar (L'IMPROBABLE). ^[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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	L'IMPROBABLE	INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 310 2023: 334 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 325 (2012) → 334 (2023): 2.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 277 (1990) → 334 (2023): 20.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 180, of which 11.7 % second homes and 5.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.2 km SBakery — 3.7 km SFood shop — 3.7 km SGP — 3.8 km NEPharmacy — 4.3 km E 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 (Plélan-le-Petit): 3.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Plélan-le-Petit): 3.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Corseul): 3.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Corseul): 4.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Plélan-le-Petit): 3.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.5

Days at or below 0 °C 35.9

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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 36 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the TREMEUR weather station, 14.1 km away at 69 m; the village itself is at 65 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at TREMEUR, 14.1 km away at 69 m, over 12 summers. ^[10]

An average of 783 mm of rain a year, spread over 135 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CORSEUL, 2.2 km away at 65 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 — 22318/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22318/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22318/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 22318/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 22180
INSEE BPE 2025 — 22048
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
Vauchamps	51	430 km E	338	22.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Baulay	70	615 km E	322	20	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 38 % · humidity 93 %
La Houblonnière	14	185 km NE	324	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Nantillé	17	319 km SE	325	21.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 95 % · humidity 57 %
Vincelles	51	434 km E	333	18.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Bossieu	38	653 km SE	326	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 47 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Houblonnière	14	185 km NE	324	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Nantillé	17	319 km SE	325	21.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 95 % · humidity 57 %
Vauchamps	51	430 km E	338	22.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Vincelles	51	434 km E	333	18.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Baulay	70	615 km E	322	20	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 38 % · humidity 93 %
Bossieu	38	653 km SE	326	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 47 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Saint-Michel-de-Plélan'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
La Houblonnière	14	185 km NE	324	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Imbleville	76	269 km NE	321	21	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Liercourt	80	346 km NE	327	19.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Lourmais	35	36 km E	340	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Chavot-Courcourt	51	454 km E	340	19.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Senlis-le-Sec	80	389 km NE	324	21.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

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