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Louvières-en-Auge

Orne · CC Terres d'Argentan Interco · INSEE 61238

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 10.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 31 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Louvières-en-Auge (INSEE 61238) is in Orne (61), part of CC Terres d'Argentan Interco. Population 90 (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/61238-louvieres-en-auge

Vitality score

Vitality score 10.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 31 % of the 9,584 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.5105
Housing mix0.7753.83

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 0 of 3
Health 0 of 4
Public services 0 of 1
Culture 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 120 2023: 90 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 80 (2012) → 90 (2023): 12.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 90 (1990) → 90 (2023): 0 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 60, of which 11.7 % second homes and 11.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmBakery — 3.1 km S (Trun)Food shop — 3.1 km S (Trun)GP — 3.2 km S (Trun)Pharmacy — 3.2 km S (Trun)Primary school — 3.4 km S (Trun)
Bakery — 3.1 km SFood shop — 3.1 km SGP — 3.2 km SPharmacy — 3.2 km SPrimary school — 3.4 km S 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 (Trun): 3.1 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Trun): 3.1 km to the south (straight line). [8]

GP (Trun): 3.2 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Trun): 3.2 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Trun): 3.4 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 34 days at or below 0 °C, over 12 complete years in 1995–2024. [9]

Measured at the CHAMPEAUX -LES- weather station, 8 km away at 247 m; the village itself is at 107 m. [9]

The village sits 140 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. [9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [9]

Humidity measured at ARGENTAN, 17.2 km away at 170 m, over 30 summers. [9]

That station sits 63 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [9]

An average of 723 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 5.7 mm on a day it rains. [9]

Rainfall measured at COULONCES, 4.3 km away at 90 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61238/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61238/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61238/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61238/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 61494
  9. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Arrelles10326 km E9011No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Neslette80167 km NE8911No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Ibigny57504 km E9011.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 39 % · humidity 100 %
Liry08341 km E928.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Mesnil-Domqueur80204 km NE8811.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Neuviller-lès-Badonviller54504 km E8911.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 46 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Neslette80167 km NE8911No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Mesnil-Domqueur80204 km NE8811.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Arrelles10326 km E9011No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Liry08341 km E928.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Neuviller-lès-Badonviller54504 km E8911.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 46 % · humidity 100 %
Ibigny57504 km E9011.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 39 % · 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 Louvières-en-Auge'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Neslette80167 km NE8911No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Mesnil-Domqueur80204 km NE8811.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Lestanville76119 km NE9014.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Maison-Roland80200 km NE977.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Mortemer76147 km NE948.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Dromesnil80174 km NE826.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %