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Saint-Aubin-de-Bonneval

Orne · CC des Vallées d'Auge et du Merlerault · INSEE 61366

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

No daily shops 6.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 5 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Aubin-de-Bonneval (INSEE 61366) is in Orne (61), part of CC des Vallées d'Auge et du Merlerault. Population 131 (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/61366-saint-aubin-de-bonneval

Vitality score

Vitality score 6.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 5 % of the 12,956 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 trend0.37103.73
Housing mix0.4152.04

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 1 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]

1 × Hairdresser (REBELLE). [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]
Hairdresser1REBELLEINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 258 2023: 131 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 146 (2012) → 131 (2023): -10.3 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 150 (1990) → 131 (2023): -12.7 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 98, of which 29.6 % second homes and 16.3 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmGP — 5.1 km NW (Livarot-Pays-d'Auge)Primary school — 5.3 km NW (Livarot-Pays-d'Auge)Food shop — 5.9 km SW (Sap-en-Auge)Bakery — 6.0 km SW (Sap-en-Auge)Pharmacy — 6.0 km SW (Sap-en-Auge)
GP — 5.1 km NWPrimary school — 5.3 km NWFood shop — 5.9 km SWBakery — 6.0 km SWPharmacy — 6.0 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 (Sap-en-Auge): 6 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Sap-en-Auge): 5.9 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

GP (Livarot-Pays-d'Auge): 5.1 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Sap-en-Auge): 6 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Livarot-Pays-d'Auge): 5.3 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

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 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 38 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the TICHEVILLE_SAPC weather station, 10.2 km away at 225 m; the village itself is at 215 m. [10]

An average of 837 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at SAP - LE-, 5.4 km away at 240 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61366/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61366/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61366/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61366/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 61460
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 14371
  10. 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
Mardilly6114 km SW1318.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 100 %
Chirat-l'Église03360 km SE1298.2No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 96 %
Saint-Sauveur-de-Pierrepont50150 km W1268.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 66 %
Bezolles32569 km S1298No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 26 % · winter 97 %
Saint-Civran36282 km S1376.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 38 % · winter 80 %
Brognon08303 km NE1307No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 77 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Mardilly6114 km SW1318.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 100 %
Saint-Sauveur-de-Pierrepont50150 km W1268.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 66 %
Saint-Civran36282 km S1376.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 38 % · winter 80 %
Brognon08303 km NE1307No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 77 %
Chirat-l'Église03360 km SE1298.2No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 96 %
Bezolles32569 km S1298No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 26 % · winter 97 %

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