Malestroit

Morbihan · CC de l'Oust à Brocéliande · INSEE 56124

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

Served 73/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 100 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Malestroit (INSEE 56124) is in Morbihan (56), part of CC de l'Oust à Brocéliande. Population 2,558 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/56124-malestroit

Vitality score

Vitality score 73/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 100 % of the 8,109 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	0.68	25	17.01
Social	0.97	20	19.48
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.69	10	6.88
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.59	10	5.85
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.52

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 2 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 of 3

Lodging 2 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE FOURNIL DE LA MADELEINE · LE BOUT DE PAIN). ^[3,4]

2 × Butcher (boucherie) (SARL BOIN · MAISON SALAUN). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (L'ESCALE PAYSANNE). ^[3,4]

3 × Supermarket (LIDL · DISTRIBUTION CASINO FRANCE · CARREFOUR CITY). ^[3,4]

12 × Restaurant (RAOUL RESTAURATION · RESTAURANT DU CORPS DE GARDE · LE GRAIN DE SEL · LAZZARO PIZZA · LA GRANGE A LOUISE). ^[3,4]

6 × Café / bar (LE CAP HORN CAFE · BAR DU BOUFFAY · LA VIEILLE AUBERGE · LE TROQUET). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PAUL GAUGUIN · ECOLE STE JEANNE D'ARC). ^[3]

2 × Collège (COLLEGE YVES COPPENS · COLLEGE PRIVE ST JULIEN). ^[3]

8 × GP (médecin généraliste) (HUBERT LAZORT, MÉDECIN · THOMAS GRANGEREAU, MÉDECIN · ALLAN GUERRET, MÉDECIN · EMMA BEGLAND, MÉDECIN · SEGOLENE GUIGUES, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE L OUST). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (ESPACE CULTUREL LE PASS'TEMPS). ^[3]

1 × Cinema (ARMORIC CINEMA). ^[3]

2 × Gym / sports hall (COLLEGE SAINT JULIEN · ESPACE DE LA DAUFRESNE). ^[3]

3 × Bank (CAISSE LOCALE CREDIT AGRICOLE · CAISSE CREDIT MUTUEL MALESTROIT-SERENT · CREDIT AGRICOLE DU MORBIHAN). ^[3]

4 × Hairdresser (TENDANCE COIFFURE · L'OMBRE LUMIERE). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (LE CAP HORN CAFE). ^[3]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LES RIVES DE L'OUST). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 3 × Restaurant, 1 × Pharmacy, 1 × Bank, 2 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	LE FOURNIL DE LA MADELEINE · LE BOUT DE PAIN	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	2	SARL BOIN · MAISON SALAUN	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	L'ESCALE PAYSANNE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Supermarket	3	LIDL · DISTRIBUTION CASINO FRANCE · CARREFOUR CITY	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	12	RAOUL RESTAURATION · RESTAURANT DU CORPS DE GARDE · LE GRAIN DE SEL · LAZZARO PIZZA · LA GRANGE A LOUISE	INSEE BPE 12 / INSEE SIRENE 16 [3,4]
Café / bar	6	LE CAP HORN CAFE · BAR DU BOUFFAY · LA VIEILLE AUBERGE · LE TROQUET	INSEE SIRENE 6 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PAUL GAUGUIN · ECOLE STE JEANNE D'ARC	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	2	COLLEGE YVES COPPENS · COLLEGE PRIVE ST JULIEN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	8	HUBERT LAZORT, MÉDECIN · THOMAS GRANGEREAU, MÉDECIN · ALLAN GUERRET, MÉDECIN · EMMA BEGLAND, MÉDECIN · SEGOLENE GUIGUES, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 8 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE L OUST	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	ESPACE CULTUREL LE PASS'TEMPS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	1	ARMORIC CINEMA	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Gym / sports hall	2	COLLEGE SAINT JULIEN · ESPACE DE LA DAUFRESNE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	3	CAISSE LOCALE CREDIT AGRICOLE · CAISSE CREDIT MUTUEL MALESTROIT-SERENT · CREDIT AGRICOLE DU MORBIHAN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Hairdresser	4	TENDANCE COIFFURE · L'OMBRE LUMIERE	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Hotel	1	LE CAP HORN CAFE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Campsite	1	CAMPING LES RIVES DE L'OUST	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

Weekly market (reported, unverified): Thursday 7h00 - 13h00 place Queinnec and place du Bouffay (Thursday); rue Edmond Besson (Saturday). ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 2,483 2023: 2,558 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,497 (2012) → 2,558 (2023): 2.4 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 2,357 (1990) → 2,558 (2023): 8.5 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,543, of which 4.8 % second homes and 9.9 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Malestroit): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Malestroit): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Malestroit): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Malestroit): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Malestroit): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8.8

Days at or below 0 °C 40.2

Muggy days a summer 1

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the PLEUCADEUC weather station, 5 km away at 65 m; the village itself is at 18 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at PLEUCADEUC, 5 km away at 65 m, over 25 summers. ^[10]

An average of 927 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at MALESTROIT, 0.3 km away at 15 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

The market day comes from the commune's own website and has not been confirmed by a second source. ^[5]

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56124/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
Commune website 2026-10— https://www.malestroit.bzh/les-marches-hebdomadaires— “Le jeudi toute l'année sur la place Queinnec et la place du Bouffay 7h00 - 13h00”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56124/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56124/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56124/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 56124
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
Auxi-le-Château	62	424 km NE	2,547	67	Served	Much the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 91 %
Chalamont	01	608 km E	2,533	63.1	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Percy-en-Normandie	50	151 km NE	2,641	64.8	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Charolles	71	526 km E	2,772	72.5	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %
Ambrières-les-Vallées	53	146 km NE	2,619	63.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Avelin	59	500 km NE	2,561	60.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Ambrières-les-Vallées	53	146 km NE	2,619	63.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Percy-en-Normandie	50	151 km NE	2,641	64.8	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Auxi-le-Château	62	424 km NE	2,547	67	Served	Much the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 91 %
Avelin	59	500 km NE	2,561	60.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Charolles	71	526 km E	2,772	72.5	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %
Chalamont	01	608 km E	2,533	63.1	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Malestroit'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
Ambrières-les-Vallées	53	146 km NE	2,619	63.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Avelin	59	500 km NE	2,561	60.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Criquetot-l'Esneval	76	282 km NE	2,668	62.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Fruges	62	445 km NE	2,362	63.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Grandvilliers	60	378 km NE	2,786	68.7	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Saëns	76	339 km NE	2,298	64.7	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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