Lampaul-Plouarzel

Finistère · CC du Pays d'Iroise · INSEE 29098

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

Partly served 51.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 74 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lampaul-Plouarzel (INSEE 29098) is in Finistère (29), part of CC du Pays d'Iroise. Population 2,221 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/29098-lampaul-plouarzel

Vitality score

Vitality score 51.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 74 % of the 8,908 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	0.66	20	13.11
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.84	10	8.36
Housing mix	0.5	5	2.52

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 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA LAMPAULAISE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Restaurant (AUBERGE DU VIEUX PUITS). ^[3,4]

5 × Café / bar (LE GALION · LE TRISKELL · TI KAL). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE KERARGROAS · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINTE MARIE). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ALEXANDRE LAUBEL, MÉDECIN · ELISABELLE BOUREILLE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DU GRAND LARGE). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LAMPAUL PLOUARZEL RP). ^[3]

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

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF DES DUNES). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 2 × Restaurant.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LA LAMPAULAISE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	PROXI	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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	1	AUBERGE DU VIEUX PUITS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	5	LE GALION · LE TRISKELL · TI KAL	INSEE SIRENE 5 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE KERARGROAS · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINTE MARIE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	ALEXANDRE LAUBEL, MÉDECIN · ELISABELLE BOUREILLE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DU GRAND LARGE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LAMPAUL PLOUARZEL RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MEDIATHEQUE MUNICIPALE TY-BOUKIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF DES DUNES	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 1,464 2023: 2,221 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,060 (2012) → 2,221 (2023): 7.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,662 (1990) → 2,221 (2023): 33.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,534, of which 24.8 % second homes and 5.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 2.8 km SE 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 (Lampaul-Plouarzel): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Plouarzel): 2.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

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

Pharmacy (Lampaul-Plouarzel): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Lampaul-Plouarzel): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 1▸

Days at or below 0 °C 2.9▸

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 3 days at or below 0 °C, over 12 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the PLOUGONVELIN weather station, 13.2 km away at 22 m; the village itself is at 34 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at PLOUDALMEZEAU, 13.2 km away at 40 m, over 16 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,091 mm of rain a year, spread over 159 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at PLOURIN-PLOUDAL, 8.6 km away at 67 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 — 29098/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29098/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29098/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29098/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 29098
INSEE BPE 2025 — 29177
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
L'Aiguillon-sur-Vie	85	296 km SE	2,277	55.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 70 %
Santec	29	61 km NE	2,454	50	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Le Perrier	85	275 km SE	2,280	56.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Plogastel-Saint-Germain	29	63 km SE	2,024	46.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Le Bono	56	162 km SE	2,608	58.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 74 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Pabu	29	18 km NE	2,087	46.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Pabu	29	18 km NE	2,087	46.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Santec	29	61 km NE	2,454	50	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Plogastel-Saint-Germain	29	63 km SE	2,024	46.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Le Bono	56	162 km SE	2,608	58.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 74 % · humidity 86 %
Le Perrier	85	275 km SE	2,280	56.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
L'Aiguillon-sur-Vie	85	296 km SE	2,277	55.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 70 %

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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 Lampaul-Plouarzel'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
Santec	29	61 km NE	2,454	50	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pabu	29	18 km NE	2,087	46.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Lanvéoc	29	29 km SE	2,044	51.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Créhen	22	188 km E	1,671	54.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Hôpital-Camfrout	29	41 km E	2,215	46.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Thégonnec Loc-Eguiner	29	61 km E	3,148	44.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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