Le Tronchet

Ille-et-Vilaine · CA du Pays de Saint Malo Agglomération · INSEE 35362

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

Few services 34.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 39 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Tronchet (INSEE 35362) is in Ille-et-Vilaine (35), part of CA du Pays de Saint Malo Agglomération. Population 1,202 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/35362-le-tronchet

Vitality score

Vitality score 34.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 39 % of the 13,200 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	0.97	10	9.69
Housing mix	0.47	5	2.34

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 0 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) (CHEZ MEL). ^[4,3]

1 × Restaurant (LA CREPERIE DU RAZ). ^[4,3]

1 × Café / bar (L'ELIXIR). ^[3]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (LE TRONCHET AP). ^[4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DU TRONCHET). ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser (A DOMI'STYLE). ^[4,3]

2 × Hotel (SAINT-MALO GOLF RESORT · HOTEL DE L'ABBAYE). ^[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 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	CHEZ MEL	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	LA CREPERIE DU RAZ	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [4,3]
Café / bar	1	L'ELIXIR	INSEE SIRENE 1 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE ALBERT AUBRY	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	LE TRONCHET AP	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DU TRONCHET	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	1	A DOMI'STYLE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	2	SAINT-MALO GOLF RESORT · HOTEL DE L'ABBAYE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 840 2023: 1,202 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,108 (2012) → 1,202 (2023): 8.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 818 (1990) → 1,202 (2023): 46.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 726, of which 26.6 % second homes and 6.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 2.1 km NBakery — 3.3 km SPharmacy — 4.6 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 (Mesnil-Roc'h): 3.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Le Tronchet): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Plerguer): 2.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Plerguer): 4.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Le Tronchet): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.2

Days at or below 0 °C 36.8

Muggy days a summer 1.6

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 37 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the DOL-DE-BRETAGNE weather station, 10.5 km away at 19 m; the village itself is at 48 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at DOL-DE-BRETAGNE, 10.5 km away at 19 m, over 11 summers. ^[11]

An average of 880 mm of rain a year, spread over 134 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LE-TRONCHET, 0.5 km away at 57 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35362/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35362/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35362/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35362/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 35308
INSEE BPE 2025 — 35362
INSEE BPE 2025 — 35224
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 Minihic-sur-Rance	35	16 km NW	1,524	32.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Châteauroux-les-Alpes	05	770 km SE	1,234	46.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 11 % · humidity 86 %
Blauzac	30	693 km SE	1,234	32.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Billiers	56	117 km SW	1,066	36.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Opoul-Périllos	66	724 km SE	1,239	44.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 66 % · humidity 29 %
Saint-Suliac	35	13 km NW	1,018	45	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Suliac	35	13 km NW	1,018	45	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Le Minihic-sur-Rance	35	16 km NW	1,524	32.8	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Billiers	56	117 km SW	1,066	36.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Blauzac	30	693 km SE	1,234	32.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Opoul-Périllos	66	724 km SE	1,239	44.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 66 % · humidity 29 %
Châteauroux-les-Alpes	05	770 km SE	1,234	46.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 11 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Tronchet'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
Billiers	56	117 km SW	1,066	36.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Condé-Folie	80	327 km NE	865	45.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Médard-sur-Ille	35	27 km SE	1,377	39.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Le Vivier-sur-Mer	35	14 km N	1,065	34.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Quentin-la-Motte-Croix-au-Bailly	80	297 km NE	1,252	29.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Gonnery	56	83 km SW	1,087	37.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %

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