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Sept-Meules

Seine-Maritime · CC Falaises du Talou · INSEE 76671

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

No daily shops 10.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 19 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sept-Meules (INSEE 76671) is in Seine-Maritime (76), part of CC Falaises du Talou. 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/76671-sept-meules

Vitality score

Vitality score 10.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 19 % 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 trend0.49104.94
Housing mix0.8454.18

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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 188 peak 2017: 193 2023: 172 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 160 (2012) → 172 (2023): 7.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 173 (1990) → 172 (2023): -0.6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 85, of which 8.2 % second homes and 11.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 2.5 km NE (Le Mesnil-Réaume)Primary school — 2.7 km NE (Le Mesnil-Réaume)Food shop — 6.0 km W (Canehan)GP — 6.2 km W (Petit-Caux)Pharmacy — 10.0 km N (Eu)
Bakery — 2.5 km NEPrimary school — 2.7 km NEFood shop — 6.0 km WGP — 6.2 km WPharmacy — 10.0 km N 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 (Le Mesnil-Réaume): 2.5 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Canehan): 6 km to the west (straight line). [9]

GP (Petit-Caux): 6.2 km to the west (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Eu): 10 km to the north (straight line). [11]

Primary school (Le Mesnil-Réaume): 2.7 km to the north-east (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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 34 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the EU weather station, 11.5 km away at 13 m; the village itself is at 44 m. [12]

An average of 1,000 mm of rain a year, spread over 150 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at ST-MARTIN, 4.7 km away at 144 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 — 76671/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 76671/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 76671/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 76671/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 76435
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 76155
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 76618
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 76255
  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
Gugney-aux-Aulx88398 km SE17216.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 31 %
Longeville25481 km SE17413.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 38 %
Labastide-Chalosse40722 km S17213.6No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 38 % · winter 93 %
Thieffrans70451 km SE17010.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 49 %
Vœlfling-lès-Bouzonville57381 km E1708.9No daily shopsno figures
Remaucourt08206 km E16913.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 70 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Remaucourt08206 km E16913.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 70 %
Vœlfling-lès-Bouzonville57381 km E1708.9No daily shopsno figures
Gugney-aux-Aulx88398 km SE17216.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 31 %
Thieffrans70451 km SE17010.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 49 %
Longeville25481 km SE17413.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 38 %
Labastide-Chalosse40722 km S17213.6No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 38 % · winter 93 %

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