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Billio

Morbihan · CC Centre Morbihan Communauté · INSEE 56019

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

No daily shops 19.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 40 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Billio (INSEE 56019) is in Morbihan (56), part of CC Centre Morbihan Communauté. Population 335 (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/56019-billio

Vitality score

Vitality score 19.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 40 % of the 18,043 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0.43208.65
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.42104.15
Housing mix0.8254.08

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 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]

2 × Café / bar (L'OASIS DU SOURIRE · L'OASIS). [4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Café / bar2L'OASIS DU SOURIRE · L'OASISINSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 457 2023: 335 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 386 (2012) → 335 (2023): -13.2 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 366 (1990) → 335 (2023): -8.5 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 218, of which 9.2 % second homes and 12.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmGP — 2.6 km N (Guéhenno)Primary school — 2.7 km N (Guéhenno)Bakery — 2.8 km N (Guéhenno)Food shop — 3.4 km S (Plumelec)Pharmacy — 9.3 km NE (Guégon)
GP — 2.6 km NPrimary school — 2.7 km NBakery — 2.8 km NFood shop — 3.4 km SPharmacy — 9.3 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 (Guéhenno): 2.8 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Plumelec): 3.4 km to the south (straight line). [9]

GP (Guéhenno): 2.6 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Guégon): 9.3 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Guéhenno): 2.7 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 33 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the LIZIO weather station, 6.4 km away at 160 m; the village itself is at 121 m. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at BIGNAN, 7.4 km away at 112 m, over 28 summers. [11]

An average of 1,089 mm of rain a year, spread over 138 days — about 7.9 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at LIZIO, 6.4 km away at 160 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56019/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56019/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56019/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56019/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 56071
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 56172
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 56070
  11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Vézières86223 km E34017.2No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Pierre-sur-Dropt47420 km SE35923.8Few servicesWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 97 % · humidity 57 %
La Neuville-aux-Joûtes08551 km NE35417.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 78 %
Réans32491 km SE29719.7No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 86 % · humidity 7 %
Lapenche82519 km SE27424Few servicesWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 3 % · winter 92 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Aubin-les-Forges58446 km E37617.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Vézières86223 km E34017.2No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Pierre-sur-Dropt47420 km SE35923.8Few servicesWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 97 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Aubin-les-Forges58446 km E37617.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %
Réans32491 km SE29719.7No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 86 % · humidity 7 %
Lapenche82519 km SE27424Few servicesWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 3 % · winter 92 % · humidity 71 %
La Neuville-aux-Joûtes08551 km NE35417.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 78 %

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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 Billio'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Neuvillette-en-Charnie72182 km E30519.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Senier-de-Beuvron50125 km NE32410.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Connec2241 km NW25816.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Magneville50193 km NE32113.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Ver50146 km NE38619.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Rimou35102 km NE35710.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %