Le Minihic-sur-Rance

Ille-et-Vilaine · CC Côte d'Emeraude · INSEE 35181

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

Few services 32.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 26 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Minihic-sur-Rance (INSEE 35181) is in Ille-et-Vilaine (35), part of CC Côte d'Emeraude. Population 1,524 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 32.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 26 % of the 11,508 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.39	20	7.87
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.83	10	8.28
Housing mix	0.51	5	2.57

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 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LA CALE GOURMANDE). ^[4,3]

1 × Restaurant (WA GWAN). ^[4,3]

1 × Café / bar (ART AU BAR). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[4]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE L'ECUME DES LIVRES). ^[4]

1 × Gym / sports hall (TERRAINS DES SPORTS). ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser (MILLE ET UNE MECHES). ^[4,3]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING MUNICIPAL). ^[4,3]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	LA CALE GOURMANDE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	WA GWAN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,3]
Café / bar	1	ART AU BAR	INSEE SIRENE 1 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	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	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE L'ECUME DES LIVRES	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	1	TERRAINS DES SPORTS	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	1	MILLE ET UNE MECHES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	1	CAMPING MUNICIPAL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 721 2023: 1,524 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,421 (2012) → 1,524 (2023): 7.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,148 (1990) → 1,524 (2023): 32.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 939, of which 24.3 % second homes and 6.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 2.5 km SBakery — 3.0 km EPharmacy — 3.6 km W 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 (Saint-Suliac): 3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Le Minihic-sur-Rance): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Langrolay-sur-Rance): 2.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Pleurtuit): 3.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Le Minihic-sur-Rance): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 2.7▸

Days at or below 0 °C 20.2

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 3 days a year at or above 30 °C and 20 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the DINARD weather station, 4.9 km away at 65 m; the village itself is at 39 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at DINARD, 4.9 km away at 65 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 744 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at DINARD, 4.9 km away at 65 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35181/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35181/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35181/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35181/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 35314
INSEE BPE 2025 — 35181
INSEE BPE 2025 — 22103
INSEE BPE 2025 — 35228
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
Le Tronchet	35	16 km SE	1,202	34.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
La Môle	83	886 km SE	1,535	49.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 81 % · humidity 57 %
Tavernes	83	830 km SE	1,492	46	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Nézignan-l'Évêque	34	709 km SE	1,718	47.4	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 96 % · humidity 36 %
Bazainville	78	271 km E	1,469	35	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Blauzac	30	709 km SE	1,234	32.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Le Tronchet	35	16 km SE	1,202	34.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Bazainville	78	271 km E	1,469	35	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Blauzac	30	709 km SE	1,234	32.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Nézignan-l'Évêque	34	709 km SE	1,718	47.4	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 96 % · humidity 36 %
Tavernes	83	830 km SE	1,492	46	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
La Môle	83	886 km SE	1,535	49.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 81 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Le Minihic-sur-Rance'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-Suliac	35	3.1 km E	1,018	45	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Condé-Folie	80	333 km NE	865	45.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Marzan	56	117 km S	2,684	46.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Sainte-Hélène	56	130 km SW	1,303	35.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Trédion	56	97 km SW	1,400	45.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
La Motte	22	65 km SW	2,173	44.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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