Mandeville-en-Bessin

Calvados · CC Isigny-Omaha Intercom · INSEE 14397

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

No daily shops 11.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 12 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Mandeville-en-Bessin (INSEE 14397) is in Calvados (14), part of CC Isigny-Omaha Intercom. Population 303 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 11.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 12 % of the 17,846 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	25	0
Social	0	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.66	10	6.56
Housing mix	0.64	5	3.22

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 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

Type	Count	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 368 2023: 303 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 365 (2012) → 303 (2023): -17 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 262 (1990) → 303 (2023): 15.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 174, of which 17.8 % second homes and 5.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.0 km WBakery — 2.1 km WGP — 2.1 km WFood shop — 2.2 km WPharmacy — 6.6 km S 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 (Trévières): 2.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Trévières): 2.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Trévières): 2.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Le Molay-Littry): 6.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Trévières): 2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 1.1▸

Days at or below 0 °C 15.8▸

Muggy days a summer 1.7

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 1 day a year at or above 30 °C and 16 days at or below 0 °C, over 12 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the PORT EN BESSIN weather station, 9.2 km away at 68 m; the village itself is at 53 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at PORT EN BESSIN, 9.2 km away at 68 m, over 13 summers. ^[10]

An average of 787 mm of rain a year, spread over 131 days — about 6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at PORT EN BESSIN, 9.2 km away at 68 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 — 14397/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14397/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14397/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 14397/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14711
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14370
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
Neuvy-en-Dunois	28	215 km SE	300	11.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 57 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Geneviève	50	51 km NW	299	11.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Hercé	53	98 km S	297	8.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Pierre-d'Alvey	73	643 km SE	305	15.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Rimay	41	216 km SE	294	8.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 54 % · winter 46 %
Saint-Martin-le-Gaillard	76	178 km NE	295	10.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 76 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sainte-Geneviève	50	51 km NW	299	11.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Hercé	53	98 km S	297	8.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-le-Gaillard	76	178 km NE	295	10.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 76 %
Neuvy-en-Dunois	28	215 km SE	300	11.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 57 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Rimay	41	216 km SE	294	8.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 54 % · winter 46 %
Saint-Pierre-d'Alvey	73	643 km SE	305	15.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Mandeville-en-Bessin'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
Sainte-Geneviève	50	51 km NW	299	11.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Étréham	14	6.2 km E	324	14.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Théville	50	55 km NW	310	14.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Saonnet	14	3.1 km S	325	16.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Agy	14	11 km SE	320	12.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Bertreville-Saint-Ouen	76	150 km NE	347	11.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

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