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Lanarvily

Finistère · CC Communauté Lesneven Côte des Légendes · INSEE 29100

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

Few services 24.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 49 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lanarvily (INSEE 29100) is in Finistère (29), part of CC Communauté Lesneven Côte des Légendes. Population 401 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/29100-lanarvily

Vitality score

Vitality score 24.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 49 % of the 17,999 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0.32206.32
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.93109.27
Housing mix0.9954.95

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 1 of 1
Schools 0 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. [3,4]

1 × Café / bar (MAISON DU BOURG). [4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar1MAISON DU BOURGINSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 291 peak 2012: 435 2023: 401 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 435 (2012) → 401 (2023): -7.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 281 (1990) → 401 (2023): 42.7 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 183, of which 0.5 % second homes and 9.3 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 2.2 km SE (Le Drennec)Primary school — 2.5 km SE (Le Drennec)GP — 2.5 km SE (Le Drennec)Pharmacy — 2.5 km SE (Le Drennec)Bakery — 2.7 km SE (Le Drennec)
Food shop — 2.2 km SEPrimary school — 2.5 km SEGP — 2.5 km SEPharmacy — 2.5 km SEBakery — 2.7 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 (Le Drennec): 2.7 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Le Drennec): 2.2 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

GP (Le Drennec): 2.5 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Le Drennec): 2.5 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Le Drennec): 2.5 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 2 days a year at or above 30 °C and 20 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [9]

Measured at the PLOUDANIEL-INRAE weather station, 7 km away at 76 m; the village itself is at 55 m. [9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [9]

Humidity measured at PLOUDANIEL-INRAE, 7 km away at 76 m, over 27 summers. [9]

An average of 1,142 mm of rain a year, spread over 163 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. [9]

Rainfall measured at PLOUDANIEL-INRAE, 7 km away at 76 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [9]

What property sold for

15 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 157,000 € — 1,071 € per m² of built surface. [10]

The median across Finistère is 1,821 € per m², so this commune sits below it. [10]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29100/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29100/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29100/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29100/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 29047
  9. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
  10. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Thelonne08690 km E40524.4Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 38 % · humidity 100 %
Barby08643 km E38919.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 39 % · humidity 93 %
Les Étangs57790 km E42125Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 23 %
Bellenglise02574 km E37817.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Duvy60535 km E41218.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Le Tremblay-Omonville27393 km E39124.7Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 50 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Le Tremblay-Omonville27393 km E39124.7Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 50 %
Duvy60535 km E41218.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Bellenglise02574 km E37817.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Barby08643 km E38919.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 39 % · humidity 93 %
Thelonne08690 km E40524.4Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 38 % · humidity 100 %
Les Étangs57790 km E42125Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 23 %

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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 Lanarvily'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Jouan-de-l'Isle22167 km E44621.3Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Le Bois-Robert76427 km E38816No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Liercourt80485 km E32719.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Bons-Tassilly14308 km E39213.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Lieusaint50236 km NE40813.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Bonnemaison14283 km E39813.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %