Saint-Christophe-de-Valains

Ille-et-Vilaine · CA Fougères Agglomération · INSEE 35261

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 16.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 42 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Christophe-de-Valains (INSEE 35261) is in Ille-et-Vilaine (35), part of CA Fougères Agglomération. Population 231 (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/35261-saint-christophe-de-valains

Vitality score

Vitality score 16.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 42 % of the 16,792 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	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.87	5	4.34

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. ^[3,4]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	0	INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 151 2023: 231 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 225 (2012) → 231 (2023): 2.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 106 (1990) → 231 (2023): 117.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 106, of which 6.6 % second homes and 7.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.2 km SEBakery — 2.3 km SEFood shop — 2.3 km SEGP — 2.4 km SEPharmacy — 2.4 km SE 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-Ouen-des-Alleux): 2.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Ouen-des-Alleux): 2.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Ouen-des-Alleux): 2.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Ouen-des-Alleux): 2.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Ouen-des-Alleux): 2.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.3

Days at or below 0 °C 30.7

Muggy days a summer 1.1

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 31 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the FEINS SA weather station, 11.2 km away at 87 m; the village itself is at 73 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at FEINS SA, 11.2 km away at 87 m, over 20 summers. ^[9]

An average of 870 mm of rain a year, spread over 134 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at MEZIERES-SUR-C., 3.7 km away at 71 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35261/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35261/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35261/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35261/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 35304
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
Charmont	51	468 km E	232	12.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 59 %
Lavans-Vuillafans	25	592 km E	232	16.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Houville-en-Vexin	27	231 km NE	232	15.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Dannemarie	78	230 km E	229	9.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 80 % · humidity 79 %
Mazirot	88	561 km E	234	9.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 28 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Ouen-du-Mesnil-Oger	14	133 km NE	233	16.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Ouen-du-Mesnil-Oger	14	133 km NE	233	16.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 79 %
Dannemarie	78	230 km E	229	9.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 80 % · humidity 79 %
Houville-en-Vexin	27	231 km NE	232	15.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Charmont	51	468 km E	232	12.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 59 %
Mazirot	88	561 km E	234	9.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 28 % · humidity 100 %
Lavans-Vuillafans	25	592 km E	232	16.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %

Sort and compare these on the full list →

…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 Saint-Christophe-de-Valains'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
Prétot-Vicquemare	76	228 km NE	228	16.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Le Quesne	80	291 km NE	233	7.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Reclinghem	62	361 km NE	238	16.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Boursin	62	359 km NE	236	17	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Capelle-Fermont	62	369 km NE	223	17	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Germain-d'Étables	76	253 km NE	240	7.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

Commune website · Wikipedia (en) ·Wikipedia (fr) · INSEE dossier complet · OpenStreetMap · Web search · Map

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/35261-saint-christophe-de-valains