Gouesnach

Finistère · CC du Pays Fouesnantais · INSEE 29060

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

Partly served 52.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 70 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Gouesnach (INSEE 29060) is in Finistère (29), part of CC du Pays Fouesnantais. Population 2,836 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). ^[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/29060-gouesnach

Vitality score

Vitality score 52.3/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 70 % of the 7,458 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	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.63	10	6.29
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.81	5	4.06

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 2 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). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (PROXI SUPER). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (AU TONNERRE DE CREPES · A LA FAIM DU FILM). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE COLIBRI). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE DE L ODET · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE NOTRE DAME DES VICTOIRES). ^[3]

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CAROLE KERLAU, MÉDECIN · LYDIE CORRE, MÉDECIN · JOSEPHINE CAROU, MÉDECIN · JEAN-BAPTISTE CORRE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE AU FIL DES MOTS). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (LES COULEURS DE L ODET). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING PORS KERAIGN). ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	PROXI SUPER	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	2	AU TONNERRE DE CREPES · A LA FAIM DU FILM	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE COLIBRI	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE DE L ODET · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE NOTRE DAME DES VICTOIRES	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	4	CAROLE KERLAU, MÉDECIN · LYDIE CORRE, MÉDECIN · JOSEPHINE CAROU, MÉDECIN · JEAN-BAPTISTE CORRE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Pharmacy	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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	BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE AU FIL DES MOTS	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	LES COULEURS DE L ODET	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 PORS KERAIGN	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: 835 2023: 2,836 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,623 (2012) → 2,836 (2023): 8.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,769 (1990) → 2,836 (2023): 60.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,539, of which 9.4 % second homes and 7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, GP Bakery — 1.1 km SEPharmacy — 4.1 km NW 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 (Gouesnach): 1.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Gouesnach): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Gouesnach): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Plomelin): 4.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 3▸

Days at or below 0 °C 21.4

Muggy days a summer 2.2

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 21 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the PLOMELIN-INRAE weather station, 4 km away at 33 m; the village itself is at 39 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at PLOMELIN-INRAE, 4 km away at 33 m, over 24 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,148 mm of rain a year, spread over 149 days — about 7.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at PLOMELIN-INRAE, 4 km away at 33 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 — 29060/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29060/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29060/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29060/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 29060
INSEE BPE 2025 — 29170
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
Vivier-au-Court	08	685 km E	2,732	47.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 49 % · humidity 86 %
Entre-Vignes	34	787 km SE	2,200	60	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 81 % · humidity 21 %
Gonnehem	62	568 km NE	2,525	51.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Aubais	30	789 km SE	2,925	56.8	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 93 % · humidity 64 %
Beaulieu	34	783 km SE	2,264	56.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Alleins	13	857 km SE	2,852	59.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Gonnehem	62	568 km NE	2,525	51.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Vivier-au-Court	08	685 km E	2,732	47.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 49 % · humidity 86 %
Beaulieu	34	783 km SE	2,264	56.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Entre-Vignes	34	787 km SE	2,200	60	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 81 % · humidity 21 %
Aubais	30	789 km SE	2,925	56.8	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 93 % · humidity 64 %
Alleins	13	857 km SE	2,852	59.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 64 % · 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 Gouesnach'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
Évrecy	14	297 km NE	2,066	62.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
La Rivière-Saint-Sauveur	14	363 km NE	2,527	64.4	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Rinxent	62	532 km NE	2,987	52.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Soullans	85	208 km SE	4,654	46.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Langrune-sur-Mer	14	317 km NE	1,916	53	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Touques	14	348 km NE	3,913	47.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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