Guimiliau

Finistère · CC du Pays de Landivisiau · INSEE 29074

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

Few services 37.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 56 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Guimiliau (INSEE 29074) is in Finistère (29), part of CC du Pays de Landivisiau. Population 994 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/29074-guimiliau

Vitality score

Vitality score 37.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 56 % of the 14,361 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.76	10	7.57
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.54

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (MAISON CHARLIE). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LE GUIM'S). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINT JOSEPH). ^[3]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE GUIMILIAU). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (MAIRIE). ^[3]

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

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	MAISON CHARLIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	LE GUIM'S	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINT JOSEPH	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	GUIMILIAU AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE GUIMILIAU	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	MAIRIE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	2	LES COULEURS DE LO	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 756 peak 2012: 1,028 2023: 994 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,028 (2012) → 994 (2023): -3.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 791 (1990) → 994 (2023): 25.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 519, of which 4.6 % second homes and 8.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 3.2 km WPharmacy — 5.6 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 (Guimiliau): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Guimiliau): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Lampaul-Guimiliau): 3.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Thégonnec Loc-Eguiner): 5.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Guimiliau): 0.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 3.1▸

Days at or below 0 °C 17.5▸

Muggy days a summer 0.9

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 18 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the PLEYBER-CHRIST SA weather station, 10.8 km away at 147 m; the village itself is at 117 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at PLEYBER-CHRIST SA, 10.8 km away at 147 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,093 mm of rain a year, spread over 157 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LOC EGUINER, 4.7 km away at 153 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 — 29074/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29074/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29074/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29074/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 29074
INSEE BPE 2025 — 29097
INSEE BPE 2025 — 29266
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
Charbonnier-les-Mines	63	649 km SE	930	38.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 26 % · humidity 93 %
Laluque	40	565 km SE	1,102	31.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 26 % · winter 66 % · humidity 50 %
Bouhet	17	350 km SE	903	40.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 54 % · winter 61 %
Saint-Sandoux	63	624 km SE	992	34.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 35 % · humidity 93 %
Bizonnes	38	787 km E	1,028	27.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 9 % · humidity 93 %
Larnage	26	772 km SE	1,009	36.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bouhet	17	350 km SE	903	40.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 54 % · winter 61 %
Laluque	40	565 km SE	1,102	31.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 26 % · winter 66 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Sandoux	63	624 km SE	992	34.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 35 % · humidity 93 %
Charbonnier-les-Mines	63	649 km SE	930	38.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 26 % · humidity 93 %
Larnage	26	772 km SE	1,009	36.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Bizonnes	38	787 km E	1,028	27.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 9 % · humidity 93 %

Sort and compare these on the full list →

…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 Guimiliau'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
Avremesnil	76	389 km NE	994	40.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Beauchamps	80	434 km NE	937	31.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Benoît-des-Ondes	35	159 km E	975	47.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Plerneuf	22	82 km E	1,123	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Merris	59	540 km NE	1,106	37.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Andel	22	106 km E	1,180	35.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

Commune website · Wikipedia (en) ·Wikipedia (fr) · INSEE dossier complet · OpenStreetMap · Web search · Map

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/29074-guimiliau