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Irodouër

Ille-et-Vilaine · CC de Saint-Méen Montauban · INSEE 35135

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

Partly served 57.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 87 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Irodouër (INSEE 35135) is in Ille-et-Vilaine (35), part of CC de Saint-Méen Montauban. Population 2,300 (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/35135-irodouer

Vitality score

Vitality score 57.2/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 87 % of the 8,739 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 food0.26256.56
Social0.632012.64
Education0.63106.32
Health0.63106.29
Public & culture0.3951.97
Population trend11010
Housing mix0.9754.87

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 × Butcher (boucherie) (LES CHARCUTERIES DE MONTIFAULT). [4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (PANIER SYMPA). [4,3]

2 × Restaurant (RESTAURANT DES BOIS · A LA TABLE D'ISA). [4,3]

2 × Café / bar (STARS DANCE MUSIC · SAN JULLUD). [3]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE HENRI DES · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE ST JOSEPH). [4]

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (MARIE-LAURE SOUTY-CENSIER, MÉDECIN · LUCIE DE BORGGRAEF, MÉDECIN · JONATHAN BEASSE, MÉDECIN · MARIANNE CINOT, MÉDECIN). [4]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DU BIEN ETRE). [4,3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (IRODOUER AP). [4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE LA PLUME ENCHANTÉE). [4]

2 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF · COMPLEXE SPORTIF GOULVENT). [4]

2 × Hairdresser (LE SALON BY ADELINE · CISEAUX & STYLE). [4,3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)1LES CHARCUTERIES DE MONTIFAULTINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)1PANIER SYMPAINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant2RESTAURANT DES BOIS · A LA TABLE D'ISAINSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [4,3]
Café / bar2STARS DANCE MUSIC · SAN JULLUDINSEE SIRENE 2 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)2ECOLE PRIMAIRE HENRI DES · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE ST JOSEPHINSEE BPE 2 [4]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)4MARIE-LAURE SOUTY-CENSIER, MÉDECIN · LUCIE DE BORGGRAEF, MÉDECIN · JONATHAN BEASSE, MÉDECIN · MARIANNE CINOT, MÉDECININSEE BPE 4 [4]
Pharmacy1PHARMACIE DU BIEN ETREINSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4,3]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale1IRODOUER APINSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library1BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE LA PLUME ENCHANTÉEINSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall2COMPLEXE SPORTIF · COMPLEXE SPORTIF GOULVENTINSEE BPE 2 [4]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser2LE SALON BY ADELINE · CISEAUX & STYLEINSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,3]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

Weekly market (reported, unverified): Friday matin place sud de l'église. [5]

Trajectory

1968: 1,236 2023: 2,300 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,137 (2012) → 2,300 (2023): 7.6 % over 10 years. [6,1]

Population 1,286 (1990) → 2,300 (2023): 78.8 % over 30 years. [7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 970, of which 1.3 % second homes and 5.6 % vacant. [8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmGP — 0.6 km S (Irodouër)Bakery — 5.2 km N (Bécherel)Pharmacy — 5.4 km N (Bécherel)
In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 0.6 km SBakery — 5.2 km NPharmacy — 5.4 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 (Bécherel): 5.2 km to the north (straight line). [9]

Food shop (Irodouër): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). [10]

GP (Irodouër): 0.6 km to the south (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Bécherel): 5.4 km to the north (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Irodouër): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). [10]

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 8 days a year at or above 30 °C and 36 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the LE RHEU-INRAE weather station, 19.6 km away at 38 m; the village itself is at 102 m. [11]

The village sits 64 m above 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 LE RHEU-INRAE, 19.6 km away at 38 m, over 20 summers. [11]

That station sits 64 m below 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 818 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at BEDEE, 2.8 km away at 116 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

The market day comes from the commune's own website and has not been confirmed by a second source. [5]

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35135/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  4. INSEE BPE 2025
  5. Commune website 2026-10— http://www.mairie-irodouer.fr/?q=le-march%C3%A9— “Marché tous les vendredis matin”(unverified)
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35135/2012
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35135/1990
  8. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35135/logement/2023
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 35022
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 35135
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Sebourg59468 km NE1,96749.4Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Bersée59444 km NE2,31850.9Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Lagrave81571 km SE2,30562.6ServedWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 86 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Beauzire63471 km SE2,21060.2ServedWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Mézériat01573 km E2,17251.9Partly servedWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 28 % · winter 82 % · humidity 79 %
Esquelbecq59430 km NE2,13756.1Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Esquelbecq59430 km NE2,13756.1Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Bersée59444 km NE2,31850.9Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Sebourg59468 km NE1,96749.4Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Beauzire63471 km SE2,21060.2ServedWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Lagrave81571 km SE2,30562.6ServedWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 86 % · humidity 79 %
Mézériat01573 km E2,17251.9Partly servedWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 28 % · winter 82 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Irodouër'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
Sebourg59468 km NE1,96749.4Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Bersée59444 km NE2,31850.9Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Esquelbecq59430 km NE2,13756.1Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Préseau59461 km NE2,10054.9Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Cagny14159 km NE2,06659.1Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Sens-de-Bretagne3532 km E2,59259.3Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %