Préaux

Seine-Maritime · CC Inter-Caux-Vexin · INSEE 76509

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

Partly served 43.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 51 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Préaux (INSEE 76509) is in Seine-Maritime (76), part of CC Inter-Caux-Vexin. Population 1,849 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/76509-preaux

Vitality score

Vitality score 43.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 51 % of the 10,121 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.78	10	7.75
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.94

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 2 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE CELINE ET JI). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LA PAT'FINE · BAR DE L'UNION). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE JACQUES PREVERT). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ISABELLE MAHE, MÉDECIN · CHRISTINE BOISSELIER-DARE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE PREAUX). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (PREAUX AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE PRÉAUX MAIRIE). ^[3]

1 × Bank. ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (MARIE'S · M LOOK). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 1 × Nursery school (maternelle), 1 × Hairdresser.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE CELINE ET JI	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	2	LA PAT'FINE · BAR DE L'UNION	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE JACQUES PREVERT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	ISABELLE MAHE, MÉDECIN · CHRISTINE BOISSELIER-DARE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE PREAUX	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	PREAUX AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE PRÉAUX MAIRIE	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	1		INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Hairdresser	2	MARIE'S · M LOOK	INSEE BPE 2 / 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	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: 611 2023: 1,849 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,699 (2012) → 1,849 (2023): 8.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,450 (1990) → 1,849 (2023): 27.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 778, of which 0.6 % second homes and 3.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, GP, Pharmacy Primary school — 0.7 km SFood shop — 3.6 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 (Préaux): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Morgny-la-Pommeraye): 3.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Préaux): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Préaux): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Préaux): 0.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.5

Days at or below 0 °C 40

Muggy days a summer 1.1

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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ROUEN-BOOS weather station, 11.7 km away at 156 m; the village itself is at 165 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at ROUEN-BOOS, 11.7 km away at 156 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 966 mm of rain a year, spread over 142 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at FONTAINE-SOUS-P, 3.5 km away at 72 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 — 76509/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 76509/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 76509/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 76509/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 76509
INSEE BPE 2025 — 76453
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
Fussy	18	276 km S	1,891	39	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 88 % · humidity 57 %
Thilouze	37	257 km S	1,815	44.1	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Trivier-sur-Moignans	01	469 km SE	1,963	39.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 26 % · winter 88 %
Crespières	78	85 km SE	1,719	42.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Bœuf	42	529 km SE	1,712	54.9	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 13 % · winter 99 % · humidity 79 %
Jouy-le-Châtel	77	167 km SE	1,630	41.7	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Crespières	78	85 km SE	1,719	42.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Jouy-le-Châtel	77	167 km SE	1,630	41.7	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Thilouze	37	257 km S	1,815	44.1	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Fussy	18	276 km S	1,891	39	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 88 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Trivier-sur-Moignans	01	469 km SE	1,963	39.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 26 % · winter 88 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Bœuf	42	529 km SE	1,712	54.9	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 13 % · winter 99 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Préaux'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
Domagné	35	248 km SW	2,491	54.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Aron	53	186 km SW	1,828	42.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Aubers	59	168 km NE	1,749	46.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Pleucadeuc	56	327 km SW	1,866	51.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Bû	28	80 km S	2,077	43.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Entrammes	53	218 km SW	2,294	55.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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