Princé

Ille-et-Vilaine · CA Vitré Communauté · INSEE 35232

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

Few services 22.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 42 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Princé (INSEE 35232) is in Ille-et-Vilaine (35), part of CA Vitré Communauté. Population 400 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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 22.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 42 % of the 18,033 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.66	10	6.56
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.49

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant (NIRAK ATIKA). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (PRINCE AP). ^[3]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	1	NIRAK ATIKA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	PRINCE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	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: 509 2023: 400 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 374 (2012) → 400 (2023): 7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 346 (1990) → 400 (2023): 15.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 217, of which 5.1 % second homes and 16.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.7 km SEFood shop — 4.0 km EGP — 4.9 km SWBakery — 6.2 km WPharmacy — 6.2 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 (Châtillon-en-Vendelais): 6.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Juvigné): 4 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-M'Hervé): 4.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Châtillon-en-Vendelais): 6.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (La Croixille): 2.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.4

Days at or below 0 °C 34

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 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 34 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the FOUGERES weather station, 16.1 km away at 74 m; the village itself is at 163 m. ^[12]

The village sits 89 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. ^[12]

An average of 826 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LUITRE, 10.2 km away at 110 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 — 35232/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35232/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35232/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35232/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 35072
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53123
INSEE BPE 2025 — 35300
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53086
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
Saint-Germain-de-Longue-Chaume	79	176 km S	380	23.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 82 %
Rougnac	16	318 km S	395	16.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 49 % · winter 65 %
Montaner	64	548 km S	408	20	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 62 % · winter 96 %
Minzac	24	371 km S	495	28.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 33 % · winter 85 %
Montdurausse	81	517 km SE	396	24.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 33 % · winter 95 %
Sainte-Christie-d'Armagnac	32	500 km S	382	19.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 36 % · winter 85 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Germain-de-Longue-Chaume	79	176 km S	380	23.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 82 %
Rougnac	16	318 km S	395	16.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 49 % · winter 65 %
Minzac	24	371 km S	495	28.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 33 % · winter 85 %
Sainte-Christie-d'Armagnac	32	500 km S	382	19.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 36 % · winter 85 %
Montdurausse	81	517 km SE	396	24.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 33 % · winter 95 %
Montaner	64	548 km S	408	20	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 62 % · winter 96 %

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