Saint-Gonlay

Ille-et-Vilaine · CC Montfort Communauté · INSEE 35277

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

Few services 29.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 66 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Gonlay (INSEE 35277) is in Ille-et-Vilaine (35), part of CC Montfort Communauté. Population 377 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/35277-saint-gonlay

Vitality score

Vitality score 29.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 66 % of the 18,049 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.85	10	8.46
Housing mix	0.74	5	3.72

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 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. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	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: 329 2023: 377 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 348 (2012) → 377 (2023): 8.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 280 (1990) → 377 (2023): 34.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 179, of which 12.8 % second homes and 3.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 2.8 km NEPrimary school — 2.8 km NWBakery — 2.9 km NEGP — 2.9 km NEPharmacy — 2.9 km NE 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 (Iffendic): 2.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Iffendic): 2.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Iffendic): 2.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Iffendic): 2.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Maugan): 2.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8

Days at or below 0 °C 43.8

Muggy days a summer 0.4

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 44 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the MONTERFIL weather station, 7.6 km away at 88 m; the village itself is at 57 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at MONTERFIL, 7.6 km away at 88 m, over 10 summers. ^[10]

An average of 775 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BLERUAIS, 4.3 km away at 84 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

What property sold for

24 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 140,000 € — 1,542 € per m² of built surface. ^[11]

The median across Ille-et-Vilaine is 2,168 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[11]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35277/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35277/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35277/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35277/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 35133
INSEE BPE 2025 — 35295
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Fougerolles	36	343 km SE	349	28.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 80 % · humidity 86 %
Champrepus	50	97 km NE	322	27.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Fomperron	79	234 km SE	388	27.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 56 % · winter 100 %
Le Châtellier	35	69 km NE	430	28.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Fontaine-Couverte	53	72 km E	420	28.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 84 %
Saint-Aubin-les-Forges	58	409 km E	376	17.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Le Châtellier	35	69 km NE	430	28.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Fontaine-Couverte	53	72 km E	420	28.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 84 %
Champrepus	50	97 km NE	322	27.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Fomperron	79	234 km SE	388	27.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 56 % · winter 100 %
Fougerolles	36	343 km SE	349	28.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 80 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Aubin-les-Forges	58	409 km E	376	17.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Saint-Gonlay'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
Champrepus	50	97 km NE	322	27.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Le Châtellier	35	69 km NE	430	28.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Locquignol	59	480 km NE	301	30.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Lalacelle	61	148 km E	263	25.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Chamblac	27	215 km NE	353	18	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Langoëlan	56	87 km W	403	25.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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