Baye

Finistère · CA Quimperlé Communauté · INSEE 29005

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

Partly served 46.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 71 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Baye (INSEE 29005) is in Finistère (29), part of CA Quimperlé Communauté. Population 1,369 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/29005-baye

Vitality score

Vitality score 46.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 71 % of the 12,263 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	0.59	20	11.7
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.63

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 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) (CAT'S). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (L'HERMINE · LE COCOONING : SALON DE THE, ARTS ET LOISIRS · KOOKABURRA). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE TALLYMOUSS). ^[4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (VALERIE TRETOUT, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Library (MEDIATHEQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (LE PENNEC SEVERINE · TETE DE MULE). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING A L'ABRI DE L'OCEAN). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie).

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	CAT'S	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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	3	L'HERMINE · LE COCOONING : SALON DE THE, ARTS ET LOISIRS · KOOKABURRA	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE TALLYMOUSS	INSEE SIRENE 1 [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)	1	VALERIE TRETOUT, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	MEDIATHEQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	2	LE PENNEC SEVERINE · TETE DE MULE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING A L'ABRI DE L'OCEAN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 414 2023: 1,369 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,137 (2012) → 1,369 (2023): 20.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 895 (1990) → 1,369 (2023): 53 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 668, of which 3.7 % second homes and 7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP Food shop — 1.9 km NEPharmacy — 2.4 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 (Baye): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Mellac): 1.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Baye): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Quimperlé): 2.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.7

Days at or below 0 °C 25.9

Muggy days a summer 1.5

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 26 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the QUIMPERLE S A weather station, 2.8 km away at 70 m; the village itself is at 65 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at QUIMPERLE S A, 2.8 km away at 70 m, over 10 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,052 mm of rain a year, spread over 136 days — about 7.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at QUIMPERLE S A, 2.8 km away at 70 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 — 29005/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29005/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29005/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29005/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 29005
INSEE BPE 2025 — 29147
INSEE BPE 2025 — 29233
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
Roumare	76	383 km NE	1,560	51	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Haverskerque	59	543 km NE	1,376	39.9	Few services	no figures
Celle-Lévescault	86	328 km SE	1,383	45.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
La Dominelais	35	144 km E	1,424	40.1	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Duisans	62	533 km NE	1,399	52.9	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Neulliac	56	55 km NE	1,482	41.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Neulliac	56	55 km NE	1,482	41.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
La Dominelais	35	144 km E	1,424	40.1	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Celle-Lévescault	86	328 km SE	1,383	45.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Roumare	76	383 km NE	1,560	51	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Duisans	62	533 km NE	1,399	52.9	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Haverskerque	59	543 km NE	1,376	39.9	Few services	no figures

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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 Baye'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
Neulliac	56	55 km NE	1,482	41.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Langan	35	137 km E	1,106	41.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Helfaut	62	529 km NE	1,724	47	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Baincthun	62	497 km NE	1,324	46.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Bavinchove	59	546 km NE	1,045	38.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Heuringhem	62	531 km NE	1,389	35.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

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