Ploudaniel

Finistère · CC Communauté Lesneven Côte des Légendes · INSEE 29179

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

Partly served 43/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 25 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ploudaniel (INSEE 29179) is in Finistère (29), part of CC Communauté Lesneven Côte des Légendes. Population 3,732 (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/29179-ploudaniel

Vitality score

Vitality score 43/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 25 % of the 5,964 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	0.25	25	6.24
Social	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.43	10	4.27
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	0.6	10	5.96
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.78

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 3 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]

3 × Bakery (boulangerie) (GUINIC · BOULANGERIE LILI ET MARIE · LA FLEUR DU PAIN). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (AU SAINT ANTOINE). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LE RELAIS DE MESCODEN · TY CHAP'S). ^[3,4]

4 × Café / bar. ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE INTERCOMMUNALE JEAN MONNET · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINTE ANNE). ^[3]

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (YOANN TANGUY, MÉDECIN · TIPHAINE ALLARD-LATOUR, MÉDECIN · FLORIANE COLIN, MÉDECIN · MAUD TRANCHEVENT, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE AUGUSTE LE BRETON). ^[3]

2 × Gym / sports hall (MAIRIE). ^[3]

1 × Bank (CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL DU FINISTERE). ^[3]

4 × Hairdresser (ESSENTIEL COIFFURE · COULEUR NATURE · UN CHEVEU M'A DIT · PELLEN ANNE LISE). ^[3,4]

2 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[4,3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	3	GUINIC · BOULANGERIE LILI ET MARIE · LA FLEUR DU PAIN	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	AU SAINT ANTOINE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	LE RELAIS DE MESCODEN · TY CHAP'S	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Café / bar	4		INSEE SIRENE 4 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE INTERCOMMUNALE JEAN MONNET · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINTE ANNE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	4	YOANN TANGUY, MÉDECIN · TIPHAINE ALLARD-LATOUR, MÉDECIN · FLORIANE COLIN, MÉDECIN · MAUD TRANCHEVENT, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DU BOURG	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	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE AUGUSTE LE BRETON	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	2	MAIRIE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	1	CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL DU FINISTERE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Hairdresser	4	ESSENTIEL COIFFURE · COULEUR NATURE · UN CHEVEU M'A DIT · PELLEN ANNE LISE	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Fuel station	2	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 2,511 2023: 3,732 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 3,662 (2012) → 3,732 (2023): 1.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 3,406 (1990) → 3,732 (2023): 9.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,724, of which 2.2 % second homes and 7.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food 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 (Ploudaniel): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

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

GP (Ploudaniel): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Ploudaniel): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Ploudaniel): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 1.5▸

Days at or below 0 °C 19.5

Muggy days a summer 1.2

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

Measured at the PLOUDANIEL-INRAE weather station, 3.8 km away at 76 m; the village itself is at 77 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at PLOUDANIEL-INRAE, 3.8 km away at 76 m, over 27 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,142 mm of rain a year, spread over 163 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at PLOUDANIEL-INRAE, 3.8 km away at 76 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29179/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29179/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29179/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 29179/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 29179
INSEE BPE 2025 — 29124
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
Treize-Septiers	85	288 km SE	3,416	40.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 73 %
Val d'Anast	35	187 km E	3,930	52.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Feucherolles	78	463 km E	3,043	41.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 50 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-des-Marais	44	196 km SE	4,492	46	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Léger-sous-Cholet	49	300 km SE	3,106	39.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Bouxwiller	67	866 km E	3,754	49.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 39 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Val d'Anast	35	187 km E	3,930	52.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-des-Marais	44	196 km SE	4,492	46	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Treize-Septiers	85	288 km SE	3,416	40.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 73 %
Saint-Léger-sous-Cholet	49	300 km SE	3,106	39.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Feucherolles	78	463 km E	3,043	41.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 50 % · humidity 100 %
Bouxwiller	67	866 km E	3,754	49.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 39 % · 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 Ploudaniel'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
Val d'Anast	35	187 km E	3,930	52.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Bourg-Blanc	29	15 km W	3,573	36.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Frévent	62	516 km NE	3,259	46.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Romagné	35	225 km E	2,438	54.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Steenvoorde	59	556 km NE	4,332	49.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Plumergat	56	136 km SE	4,207	45.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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