Loyat

Morbihan · CC Ploërmel Communauté · INSEE 56122

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

Partly served 41.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 48 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Loyat (INSEE 56122) is in Morbihan (56), part of CC Ploërmel Communauté. Population 1,750 (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/56122-loyat

Vitality score

Vitality score 41.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 48 % of the 10,504 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.39	20	7.87
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.69	10	6.95
Housing mix	0.74	5	3.7

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 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 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BARA Y GWIN). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (EPI SERVICES). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (BALADE EN SARRASIN). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (L'ESCALE). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE THEODORE BOTREL · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE STE JEANNE D'ARC). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (RAIMOND SONEI, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LOYAT RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (LIRE EN YVEL). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE POLYVALENT). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (SOIZIC COIFFURE A DOMICILE · NAT'IF COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING MERLIN L'ENCHANTEUR). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy. ^[4,3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BARA Y GWIN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	EPI SERVICES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	BALADE EN SARRASIN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	L'ESCALE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE THEODORE BOTREL · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE STE JEANNE D'ARC	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	RAIMOND SONEI, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	LOYAT RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	LIRE EN YVEL	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE POLYVALENT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	2	SOIZIC COIFFURE A DOMICILE · NAT'IF COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING MERLIN L'ENCHANTEUR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,563 2023: 1,750 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,636 (2012) → 1,750 (2023): 7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,465 (1990) → 1,750 (2023): 19.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,012, of which 13 % second homes and 13.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 5.4 km SW 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 (Loyat): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Loyat): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Loyat): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Taupont): 5.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Loyat): 0.1 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, 4.3 km away at 65 m; the village itself is at 61 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at PLOERMEL, 4.3 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, 4.3 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 — 56122/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56122/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56122/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56122/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 56122
INSEE BPE 2025 — 56249
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-Jouin-Bruneval	76	262 km NE	1,816	46.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Maurice-en-Gourgois	42	577 km SE	1,827	54.3	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 19 % · humidity 93 %
Ambierle	42	520 km E	1,865	47.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 64 % · humidity 14 %
Hanvec	29	137 km W	2,025	48.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Villeneuve-en-Perseigne	72	202 km E	2,174	42.6	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 62 %
Arzal	56	53 km S	1,846	56.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Arzal	56	53 km S	1,846	56.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Hanvec	29	137 km W	2,025	48.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Villeneuve-en-Perseigne	72	202 km E	2,174	42.6	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 62 %
Saint-Jouin-Bruneval	76	262 km NE	1,816	46.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Ambierle	42	520 km E	1,865	47.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 64 % · humidity 14 %
Saint-Maurice-en-Gourgois	42	577 km SE	1,827	54.3	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 19 % · 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 Loyat'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
Saint-Jouin-Bruneval	76	262 km NE	1,816	46.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Hanvec	29	137 km W	2,025	48.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Arzal	56	53 km S	1,846	56.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Les Portes du Coglais	35	94 km NE	2,208	47.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Limerzel	56	39 km S	1,370	46.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Maël-Carhaix	22	84 km NW	1,497	46.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

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