Saint-Nicolas-du-Tertre

Morbihan · CC de l'Oust à Brocéliande · INSEE 56230

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

Few services 27.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 55 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Nicolas-du-Tertre (INSEE 56230) is in Morbihan (56), part of CC de l'Oust à Brocéliande. Population 469 (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/56230-saint-nicolas-du-tertre

Vitality score

Vitality score 27.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 55 % of the 17,908 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	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.53	10	5.33
Housing mix	0.69	5	3.43

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 1 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) (LA FEUZRI D'PAIN). ^[3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PRIVEE STE THERESE). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINT NICOLAS DU TERTRE AP). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LA FEUZRI D'PAIN	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)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PRIVEE STE THERESE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	SAINT NICOLAS DU TERTRE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	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: 523 2023: 469 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 467 (2012) → 469 (2023): 0.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 454 (1990) → 469 (2023): 3.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 318, of which 15.7 % second homes and 10.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 4.9 km WPharmacy — 4.9 km WGP — 6.5 km E 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 (Saint-Nicolas-du-Tertre): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Ruffiac): 4.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Carentoir): 6.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Ruffiac): 4.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Nicolas-du-Tertre): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

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. ^[11]

Measured at the PLEUCADEUC weather station, 13.1 km away at 65 m; the village itself is at 54 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at PLEUCADEUC, 13.1 km away at 65 m, over 25 summers. ^[11]

An average of 927 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MALESTROIT, 12.2 km away at 15 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

What property sold for

47 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 120,000 € — 1,079 € per m² of built surface. ^[12]

The median across Morbihan is 2,080 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[12]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56230/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56230/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56230/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56230/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 56230
INSEE BPE 2025 — 56200
INSEE BPE 2025 — 56033
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Soudan	79	221 km SE	424	32.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 67 % · winter 91 %
Franchesse	03	417 km E	449	33	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Vitrac-Saint-Vincent	16	304 km SE	489	27.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 77 % · humidity 71 %
Dussac	24	368 km SE	427	21	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Fromental	87	330 km SE	524	20.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Priest-Ligoure	87	359 km SE	692	30.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 70 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Soudan	79	221 km SE	424	32.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 67 % · winter 91 %
Vitrac-Saint-Vincent	16	304 km SE	489	27.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 77 % · humidity 71 %
Fromental	87	330 km SE	524	20.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Priest-Ligoure	87	359 km SE	692	30.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 70 % · humidity 79 %
Dussac	24	368 km SE	427	21	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Franchesse	03	417 km E	449	33	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 86 % · 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 Saint-Nicolas-du-Tertre'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
Dussac	24	368 km SE	427	21	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Augustin	19	407 km SE	427	30.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Servais	22	108 km NW	435	11.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Noth	23	337 km SE	498	35.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Moutier-Rozeille	23	396 km SE	432	23.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Bourgon	53	95 km NE	616	29.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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