Houlbec-Cocherel

Eure · CA Seine Normandie Agglomération · INSEE 27343

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

Few services 30/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 23 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Houlbec-Cocherel (INSEE 27343) is in Eure (27), part of CA Seine Normandie Agglomération. Population 1,280 (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 30/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 23 % of the 12,826 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.64	10	6.36
Housing mix	0.76	5	3.78

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (P.F.J.T). ^[3]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (SUPERETTE DU VILLAGE). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (ACHOUR BELAID). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (HOULBEC COCHEREL AP). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (L'ATELIER DU STYLE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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)	1	P.F.J.T	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	SUPERETTE DU VILLAGE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	ACHOUR BELAID	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE JACQUES DESTINE	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	1	HOULBEC COCHEREL AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	L'ATELIER DU STYLE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 407 peak 2012: 1,352 2023: 1,280 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,352 (2012) → 1,280 (2023): -5.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,127 (1990) → 1,280 (2023): 13.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 640, of which 12.2 % second homes and 4.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 3.9 km WPharmacy — 4.6 km SGP — 6.2 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 (Chambray): 3.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Houlbec-Cocherel): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Pacy-sur-Eure): 6.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Ménilles): 4.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Houlbec-Cocherel): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8.5

Days at or below 0 °C 43.5

Muggy days a summer 0.6

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 44 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the EVREUX-HUEST weather station, 11.6 km away at 138 m; the village itself is at 130 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at EVREUX-HUEST, 11.6 km away at 138 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 657 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 5.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at PACY-SUR-EURE, 5.3 km away at 38 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 27343/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 27343/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 27343/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 27343/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 27140
INSEE BPE 2025 — 27343
INSEE BPE 2025 — 27448
INSEE BPE 2025 — 27397
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
Montcaret	24	479 km S	1,390	35.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 26 % · winter 97 %
Lamnay	72	117 km SW	928	45.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Sadroc	19	422 km S	1,010	38.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 31 % · humidity 100 %
Illiers-l'Évêque	27	29 km S	1,014	42	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 81 %
Saint-Ouen-en-Belin	72	162 km SW	1,313	31.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Groissiat	01	449 km SE	1,205	34.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 30 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Illiers-l'Évêque	27	29 km S	1,014	42	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 81 %
Lamnay	72	117 km SW	928	45.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Ouen-en-Belin	72	162 km SW	1,313	31.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Sadroc	19	422 km S	1,010	38.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 31 % · humidity 100 %
Groissiat	01	449 km SE	1,205	34.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 30 % · humidity 93 %
Montcaret	24	479 km S	1,390	35.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 26 % · winter 97 %

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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 Houlbec-Cocherel'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
Sylvains-Lès-Moulins	27	26 km SW	1,267	22.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Lavaré	72	125 km SW	815	37.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Laval-en-Belledonne	38	548 km SE	1,029	31.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Hermeray	78	53 km SE	1,007	28.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Néant-sur-Yvel	56	296 km W	1,045	30.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Cesny-les-Sources	14	127 km W	1,411	44.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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