Bruc-sur-Aff

Ille-et-Vilaine · CA Redon Agglomération · INSEE 35045

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

Few services 36.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 59 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bruc-sur-Aff (INSEE 35045) is in Ille-et-Vilaine (35), part of CA Redon Agglomération. Population 855 (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/35045-bruc-sur-aff

Vitality score

Vitality score 36.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 59 % of the 15,275 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	0
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	0.6	10	5.99
Housing mix	0.86	5	4.31

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant. ^[4,3]

1 × Café / bar (BAR SAINT MICHEL). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE STE ANNE). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (BRUC SUR AFF AP). ^[4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4,3]
Café / bar	1	BAR SAINT MICHEL	INSEE SIRENE 1 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE STE ANNE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	BRUC SUR AFF AP	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 822 peak 2017: 863 2023: 855 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 855 (2012) → 855 (2023): 0 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 778 (1990) → 855 (2023): 9.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 479, of which 6.9 % second homes and 11.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 4.6 km NWFood shop — 5.5 km EGP — 5.8 km EPharmacy — 6.2 km E 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 (Carentoir): 4.6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Pipriac): 5.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Pipriac): 5.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Pipriac): 6.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Bruc-sur-Aff): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.4

Days at or below 0 °C 23.4

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 23 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MAXENT weather station, 18.9 km away at 116 m; the village itself is at 44 m. ^[11]

The village sits 72 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at MAXENT, 18.9 km away at 116 m, over 11 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 72 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 832 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at PIPRIAC, 5.8 km away at 50 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 — 35045/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35045/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35045/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35045/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 56033
INSEE BPE 2025 — 35219
INSEE BPE 2025 — 35045
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
Nieuil	16	288 km SE	883	34.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 76 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Rémy-du-Plain	35	70 km NE	818	39.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Lignan-de-Bordeaux	33	357 km S	842	37.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 91 % · humidity 64 %
Chambost-Allières	69	534 km E	816	45.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 43 % · humidity 86 %
Agris	16	289 km SE	891	38	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 73 % · humidity 79 %
Courcelles-lès-Gisors	60	320 km NE	809	36.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Rémy-du-Plain	35	70 km NE	818	39.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Nieuil	16	288 km SE	883	34.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 76 % · humidity 71 %
Agris	16	289 km SE	891	38	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 73 % · humidity 79 %
Courcelles-lès-Gisors	60	320 km NE	809	36.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Lignan-de-Bordeaux	33	357 km S	842	37.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 91 % · humidity 64 %
Chambost-Allières	69	534 km E	816	45.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 43 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Bruc-sur-Aff'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
Saint-Rémy-du-Plain	35	70 km NE	818	39.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Carantilly	50	151 km N	619	40.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Conteville	27	252 km NE	1,038	30.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Confort-Meilars	29	181 km W	861	33.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Rouessé-Vassé	72	141 km E	785	28.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Cécile	50	129 km NE	792	39.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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