Taupont

Morbihan · CC Ploërmel Communauté · INSEE 56249

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

Partly served 49/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 65 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Taupont (INSEE 56249) is in Morbihan (56), part of CC Ploërmel Communauté. Population 2,428 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/56249-taupont

Vitality score

Vitality score 49/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 65 % of the 8,404 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.81	10	8.1
Housing mix	0.84	5	4.21

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 2 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) (LES DELICES DU LAC). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LE PERE GOLVEN · LA BILLIG). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (KARAM'BAR). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE RENE GUY CADOU · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE NOTRE DAME). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (DOMINIQUE FORLOT, MÉDECIN · VINCENT MERIADEC, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (EURL PHARMACIE LEGAVRE GRUAIS). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (LES AMIS DU LIVRE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE DES SPORTS). ^[3]

1 × Swimming pool (LAC AU DUC). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (AMBIANCE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

2 × Campsite (CAMPING LA VALLEE DU NINIAN · CAMPING DU LAC). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Hairdresser.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LES DELICES DU LAC	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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	2	LE PERE GOLVEN · LA BILLIG	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	KARAM'BAR	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE RENE GUY CADOU · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE NOTRE DAME	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	DOMINIQUE FORLOT, MÉDECIN · VINCENT MERIADEC, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	EURL PHARMACIE LEGAVRE GRUAIS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	TAUPONT RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	LES AMIS DU LIVRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	SALLE DES SPORTS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	1	LAC AU DUC	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1	AMBIANCE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 1 / 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	2	CAMPING LA VALLEE DU NINIAN · CAMPING DU LAC	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,418 2023: 2,428 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,195 (2012) → 2,428 (2023): 10.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,853 (1990) → 2,428 (2023): 31 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,287, of which 7.9 % second homes and 8.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Bakery — 3.2 km SEFood shop — 3.3 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 (Ploërmel): 3.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Ploërmel): 3.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

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

Pharmacy (Taupont): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Taupont): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

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, 3.2 km away at 65 m; the village itself is at 83 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at PLOERMEL, 3.2 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, 3.2 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 — 56249/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56249/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56249/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 56249/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 56165
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
Château-l'Évêque	24	384 km SE	2,158	41.7	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 91 % · humidity 57 %
Pléchâtel	35	52 km E	2,833	59.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Les Églisottes-et-Chalaures	33	367 km SE	2,205	47.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 21 % · winter 78 % · humidity 0 %
Camors	56	44 km W	3,260	42.4	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 82 %
Saint-Pal-de-Mons	43	595 km SE	2,358	52.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 35 % · humidity 93 %
Gambais	78	317 km E	2,574	51.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 81 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Camors	56	44 km W	3,260	42.4	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 82 %
Pléchâtel	35	52 km E	2,833	59.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Gambais	78	317 km E	2,574	51.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 81 % · humidity 79 %
Les Églisottes-et-Chalaures	33	367 km SE	2,205	47.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 21 % · winter 78 % · humidity 0 %
Château-l'Évêque	24	384 km SE	2,158	41.7	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 91 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Pal-de-Mons	43	595 km SE	2,358	52.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 35 % · 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 Taupont'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
Pléchâtel	35	52 km E	2,833	59.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Guégon	56	9.7 km W	2,365	47.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-Fleurigné	35	108 km NE	2,451	51.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Corseul	22	62 km N	2,331	45.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Brandan	22	58 km NW	2,317	50.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Val d'Arry	14	189 km NE	2,496	47.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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