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La Cerlangue

Seine-Maritime · CU Le Havre Seine Métropole · INSEE 76169

A school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink.

Few services 20.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 3 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Cerlangue (INSEE 76169) is in Seine-Maritime (76), part of CU Le Havre Seine Métropole. Population 1,300 (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/76169-la-cerlangue

Vitality score

Vitality score 20.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 3 % of the 12,702 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
Education0.39103.93
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.82108.22
Housing mix0.9854.91

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 1 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”.

A school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. [3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE LES PEPINIERES). [4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE PRIMAIRE LES PEPINIERESINSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 754 peak 2012: 1,308 2023: 1,300 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,308 (2012) → 1,300 (2023): -0.6 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 983 (1990) → 1,300 (2023): 32.2 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 538, of which 0.9 % second homes and 5.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 3.7 km N (Les Trois-Pierres)Pharmacy — 3.7 km SE (Tancarville)GP — 4.3 km NE (Mélamare)Bakery — 4.4 km NE (Mélamare)
In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.7 km NPharmacy — 3.7 km SEGP — 4.3 km NEBakery — 4.4 km NE 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 (Mélamare): 4.4 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Les Trois-Pierres): 3.7 km to the north (straight line). [9]

GP (Mélamare): 4.3 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Tancarville): 3.7 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (La Cerlangue): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). [11]

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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 37 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the PETIVILLE weather station, 14.2 km away at 18 m; the village itself is at 121 m. [12]

The village sits 103 m above 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. [12]

An average of 1,029 mm of rain a year, spread over 149 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at ST-ROMAIN-DE-C, 5.1 km away at 110 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 76169/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  4. INSEE BPE 2025
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 76169/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 76169/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 76169/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 76421
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 76714
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 76684
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 76169
  12. 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
La Remuée762.4 km N1,27722Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 97 %
Ailly2772 km SE1,23422Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 78 %
Villebret03397 km SE1,33521.8Few servicesWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 67 % · winter 85 %
Sainte-Néomaye79352 km S1,35921.9Few servicesWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 56 % · winter 89 %
Sérézin-de-la-Tour38574 km SE1,13522.2Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 44 % · winter 34 %
Jourgnac87426 km S1,10922.1Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 81 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
La Remuée762.4 km N1,27722Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 97 %
Ailly2772 km SE1,23422Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 78 %
Sainte-Néomaye79352 km S1,35921.9Few servicesWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 56 % · winter 89 %
Villebret03397 km SE1,33521.8Few servicesWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 67 % · winter 85 %
Jourgnac87426 km S1,10922.1Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 81 %
Sérézin-de-la-Tour38574 km SE1,13522.2Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 44 % · winter 34 %

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