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Rétonval

Seine-Maritime · CC Interrégionale Aumale - Blangy-sur-Bresle · INSEE 76523

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

No daily shops 8.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 7 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Rétonval (INSEE 76523) is in Seine-Maritime (76), part of CC Interrégionale Aumale - Blangy-sur-Bresle. Population 172 (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/76523-retonval

Vitality score

Vitality score 8.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 7 % of the 15,091 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 trend0.31103.11
Housing mix0.7553.74

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. [3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Primary school (élémentaire).

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]
Hairdresser1INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 298 2023: 172 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 197 (2012) → 172 (2023): -12.7 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 212 (1990) → 172 (2023): -18.9 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 103, of which 12.6 % second homes and 9.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmPrimary school — 1.9 km NE (Saint-Léger-aux-Bois)Bakery — 3.5 km NW (Foucarmont)Food shop — 3.7 km NW (Foucarmont)Pharmacy — 3.7 km NW (Foucarmont)GP — 3.8 km NW (Foucarmont)
Primary school — 1.9 km NEBakery — 3.5 km NWFood shop — 3.7 km NWPharmacy — 3.7 km NWGP — 3.8 km NW 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 (Foucarmont): 3.5 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Foucarmont): 3.7 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

GP (Foucarmont): 3.8 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Foucarmont): 3.7 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Saint-Léger-aux-Bois): 1.9 km to the north-east (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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 25 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the BOUELLES weather station, 11.7 km away at 232 m; the village itself is at 155 m. [10]

The village sits 77 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. [10]

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

Humidity measured at BOUELLES, 11.7 km away at 232 m, over 19 summers. [10]

That station sits 77 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [10]

An average of 832 mm of rain a year, spread over 129 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at CAULE-STE-BEUVE, 6.3 km away at 234 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 — 76523/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 76523/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 76523/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 76523/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 76278
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 76598
  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
Amécourt2750 km S17216.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 62 %
Coupray52319 km SE17314.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 36 % · humidity 100 %
Painblanc21372 km SE17110.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 35 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Germier81685 km S16916.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 10 % · winter 77 % · humidity 71 %
Lavignac87457 km S17113.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 74 % · humidity 71 %
Nan-sous-Thil21339 km SE16910.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 47 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Amécourt2750 km S17216.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 62 %
Coupray52319 km SE17314.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 36 % · humidity 100 %
Nan-sous-Thil21339 km SE16910.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 47 % · humidity 100 %
Painblanc21372 km SE17110.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 35 % · humidity 93 %
Lavignac87457 km S17113.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 74 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Germier81685 km S16916.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 10 % · winter 77 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Rétonval'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
Sorquainville7676 km W1688No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Fallencourt765.8 km N17610.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Mards7642 km W1799.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Preuseville768.0 km NW16210.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Aumâtre8017 km NE1707.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Gonnetot7650 km W17313.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %