La Croix-Helléan

Morbihan · CC Ploërmel Communauté · INSEE 56050

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

Few services 31/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 39 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Croix-Helléan (INSEE 56050) is in Morbihan (56), part of CC Ploërmel Communauté. Population 892 (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/56050-la-croix-hellean

Vitality score

Vitality score 31/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 39 % of the 15,014 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.9	10	8.96
Housing mix	0.85	5	4.23

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 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”.

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (CANDELY'S). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE STE ANNE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE RUE SAINTE ANNE). ^[3]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	CANDELY'S	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE STE ANNE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE RUE SAINTE ANNE	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 580 2023: 892 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 860 (2012) → 892 (2023): 3.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 639 (1990) → 892 (2023): 39.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 453, of which 7.7 % second homes and 9.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 0.9 km NFood shop — 3.2 km WPharmacy — 3.2 km WGP — 3.6 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 (La Croix-Helléan): 0.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Josselin): 3.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Josselin): 3.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Josselin): 3.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (La Croix-Helléan): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8

Days at or below 0 °C 32.1

Muggy days a summer 1.4

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 32 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the PLOERMEL weather station, 7.8 km away at 65 m; the village itself is at 77 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at PLOERMEL, 7.8 km away at 65 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 775 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at PLOERMEL, 7.8 km away at 65 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56050/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56050/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56050/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56050/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 56050
INSEE BPE 2025 — 56091
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-Symphorien-sous-Chomérac	07	660 km SE	887	32.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 15 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Marigny	79	251 km SE	902	31.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Courcité	53	172 km E	797	24.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-en-Bière	77	379 km E	746	28	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 68 % · humidity 86 %
Larnod	25	641 km E	773	29.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %
Mollkirch	67	734 km E	874	42.5	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Courcité	53	172 km E	797	24.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Marigny	79	251 km SE	902	31.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-en-Bière	77	379 km E	746	28	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 68 % · humidity 86 %
Larnod	25	641 km E	773	29.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 53 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Symphorien-sous-Chomérac	07	660 km SE	887	32.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 15 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Mollkirch	67	734 km E	874	42.5	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 76 % · 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 La Croix-Helléan'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
Audrieu	14	197 km NE	1,167	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Locmalo	56	53 km W	890	35.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Pihem	62	457 km NE	919	22.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Mannevillette	76	268 km NE	935	31.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Cléty	62	453 km NE	805	31.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Wittes	62	465 km NE	973	43.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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