Ploéven

Finistère · CC Pleyben-Châteaulin-Porzay · INSEE 29166

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

Partly served 42.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 85 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ploéven (INSEE 29166) is in Finistère (29), part of CC Pleyben-Châteaulin-Porzay. Population 550 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 42.3/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 85 % of the 17,522 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.72	10	7.22
Housing mix	0.58	5	2.9

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 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) (LE FOURNIL DE PLOEVEN). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (TY'PIK). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE PLOEVEN). ^[3]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING DE LA MER). ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LE FOURNIL DE PLOEVEN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	1	TY'PIK	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE PLOEVEN	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	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	1	CAMPING DE LA MER	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 445 2023: 550 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 514 (2012) → 550 (2023): 7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 450 (1990) → 550 (2023): 22.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 329, of which 21 % second homes and 3.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school GP — 2.4 km NPharmacy — 2.5 km NFood shop — 2.8 km N 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 (Ploéven): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Plomodiern): 2.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Plomodiern): 2.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Plomodiern): 2.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Ploéven): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 3.5▸

Days at or below 0 °C 20

Muggy days a summer 0.8

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 4 days a year at or above 30 °C and 20 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the KERLAZ weather station, 8.6 km away at 88 m; the village itself is at 58 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at ST-SEGAL S A, 13 km away at 89 m, over 29 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,215 mm of rain a year, spread over 160 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ST-NIC, 7.2 km away at 112 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 — 29166/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29166/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29166/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29166/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 29166
INSEE BPE 2025 — 29172
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
Peyrignac	24	532 km SE	577	45.3	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 88 % · humidity 71 %
Gigny-sur-Saône	71	710 km E	580	48.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 38 % · humidity 64 %
Valvignères	07	788 km SE	440	43.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 70 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Sauveur-de-Cruzières	07	780 km SE	572	41.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Tréogat	29	27 km S	573	43.3	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Germigny	89	596 km E	530	41.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Tréogat	29	27 km S	573	43.3	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Peyrignac	24	532 km SE	577	45.3	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 88 % · humidity 71 %
Germigny	89	596 km E	530	41.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %
Gigny-sur-Saône	71	710 km E	580	48.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 38 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Sauveur-de-Cruzières	07	780 km SE	572	41.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Valvignères	07	788 km SE	440	43.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 70 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Ploéven'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
Pendé	80	478 km NE	1,025	36.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Genneville	14	357 km NE	806	43.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Noordpeene	59	562 km NE	825	43.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Wierre-Effroy	62	521 km NE	834	46.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-aux-Filtzméens	35	180 km E	824	48.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Plélauff	22	76 km E	716	30.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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