Gueltas

Morbihan · CC Pontivy Communauté · INSEE 56072

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

Few services 28.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 51 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Gueltas (INSEE 56072) is in Morbihan (56), part of CC Pontivy Communauté. Population 551 (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/56072-gueltas

Vitality score

Vitality score 28.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 51 % of the 17,482 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.56	10	5.64
Housing mix	0.86	5	4.31

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (GWELTAZ BAR RESTO EPICERIE). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE BERNARD LE GAL). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (MAIRIE). ^[3]

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), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	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]
Café / bar	1	GWELTAZ BAR RESTO EPICERIE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE BERNARD LE GAL	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	BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	MAIRIE	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 610 2023: 551 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 514 (2012) → 551 (2023): 7.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 518 (1990) → 551 (2023): 6.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 290, of which 6.9 % second homes and 14.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.7 km NWBakery — 4.2 km SEPharmacy — 4.3 km SEGP — 4.4 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 (Rohan): 4.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Gonnery): 3.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Rohan): 4.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Rohan): 4.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Gueltas): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 4.8

Days at or below 0 °C 25.4

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 25 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the NAIZIN-INRAE weather station, 10 km away at 132 m; the village itself is at 105 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at NAIZIN-INRAE, 10 km away at 132 m, over 17 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 NAIZIN-INRAE, 10 km away at 132 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 — 56072/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56072/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56072/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56072/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 56198
INSEE BPE 2025 — 56215
INSEE BPE 2025 — 56072
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 Mesnil-Guillaume	14	253 km NE	551	31.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Abraham	56	39 km SE	552	30.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Franclens	74	691 km E	541	33.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Lucheux	80	445 km NE	521	26.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Mareau-aux-Bois	45	370 km E	570	31	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 72 %
Bonningues-lès-Calais	62	453 km NE	597	33.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Abraham	56	39 km SE	552	30.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Le Mesnil-Guillaume	14	253 km NE	551	31.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Mareau-aux-Bois	45	370 km E	570	31	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 72 %
Lucheux	80	445 km NE	521	26.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Bonningues-lès-Calais	62	453 km NE	597	33.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Franclens	74	691 km E	541	33.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 66 % · 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 Gueltas'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
Lucheux	80	445 km NE	521	26.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Bonningues-lès-Calais	62	453 km NE	597	33.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Kerfot	22	74 km N	642	27.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Austreberthe	76	323 km NE	662	31.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Berville-en-Caux	76	320 km NE	698	33.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Parenty	62	434 km NE	559	26.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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