Botsorhel

Finistère · CA Morlaix Communauté · INSEE 29014

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

Few services 21.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 38 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Botsorhel (INSEE 29014) is in Finistère (29), part of CA Morlaix Communauté. Population 425 (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/29014-botsorhel

Vitality score

Vitality score 21.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 38 % of the 17,983 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.25	10	2.48
Housing mix	0.69	5	3.46

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE DU BOURG	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: 674 2023: 425 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 459 (2012) → 425 (2023): -7.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 568 (1990) → 425 (2023): -25.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 299, of which 15.4 % second homes and 14 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 0.5 km SEGP — 2.5 km EPharmacy — 4.0 km EBakery — 4.2 km EFood shop — 4.4 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 (Guerlesquin): 4.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Guerlesquin): 4.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Guerlesquin): 2.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Guerlesquin): 4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Botsorhel): 0.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 1.4▸

Days at or below 0 °C 24.9

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 1 day a year at or above 30 °C and 25 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LANMEUR weather station, 15.5 km away at 53 m; the village itself is at 198 m. ^[10]

The village sits 145 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 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at PLEYBER-CHRIST SA, 15.9 km away at 147 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 51 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 1,258 mm of rain a year, spread over 170 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at GUERLESQUIN, 3.4 km away at 244 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 — 29014/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29014/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29014/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29014/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 29067
INSEE BPE 2025 — 29014
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
Broualan	35	147 km E	415	30.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Espartignac	19	527 km SE	407	27.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Les Châteliers	79	347 km SE	445	25.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 46 % · winter 72 %
Merléac	22	61 km SE	481	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Chelun	35	194 km E	363	32.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Sacey	50	161 km E	508	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Merléac	22	61 km SE	481	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Broualan	35	147 km E	415	30.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Sacey	50	161 km E	508	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Chelun	35	194 km E	363	32.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Les Châteliers	79	347 km SE	445	25.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 46 % · winter 72 %
Espartignac	19	527 km SE	407	27.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 91 % · 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 Botsorhel'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
Merléac	22	61 km SE	481	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Sacey	50	161 km E	508	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-Neuve	22	18 km SE	413	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Tugdual	56	53 km SE	376	24.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Duault	22	24 km SE	385	28.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Ver	50	170 km E	386	19.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

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