Barfleur

Manche · CA du Cotentin · INSEE 50030

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

Served 60.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 98 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Barfleur (INSEE 50030) is in Manche (50), part of CA du Cotentin. Population 542 (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/50030-barfleur

Vitality score

Vitality score 60.1/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 98 % of the 17,568 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	0.5	25	12.47
Social	0.93	20	18.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.63	10	6.32
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.4	10	4.05
Housing mix	0.03	5	0.16

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 1 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) (AUX MILLE SAVEURS). ^[3,4]

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

2 × Supermarket (CARREFOUR CONTACT). ^[3,4]

7 × Restaurant (CHEZ BUCK · RESTAURANT EPICERIE DU PHARE · LA MAREE · LA BOHEME). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (CAFE DE FRANCE). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE STE-MARIE-MADELEINE). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ROMAIN LAPIE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

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

3 × Hairdresser (JANICE ART & COIFFURE · L'ATELIER DES NUANCES). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

1 × Campsite (INDIANA). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Hairdresser.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	AUX MILLE SAVEURS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	L'ANANAS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Supermarket	2	CARREFOUR CONTACT	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	7	CHEZ BUCK · RESTAURANT EPICERIE DU PHARE · LA MAREE · LA BOHEME	INSEE BPE 7 / INSEE SIRENE 9 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	CAFE DE FRANCE	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE STE-MARIE-MADELEINE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	ROMAIN LAPIE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE BARFLEUR	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	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BARFLEUR	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	3	JANICE ART & COIFFURE · L'ATELIER DES NUANCES	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	1	INDIANA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 837 2023: 542 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 641 (2012) → 542 (2023): -15.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 599 (1990) → 542 (2023): -9.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 630, of which 48.4 % second homes and 4.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Barfleur): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Barfleur): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Barfleur): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Barfleur): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Barfleur): 0.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 0.5▸

Days at or below 0 °C 10.6▸

Muggy days a summer 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 1 day a year at or above 30 °C and 11 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the BARFLEUR weather station, 1 km away at 13 m; the village itself is at 7 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at GONNEVILLE, 14.3 km away at 134 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 127 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 864 mm of rain a year, spread over 132 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at BARFLEUR, 1 km away at 13 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50030/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50030/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50030/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50030/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50030
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
Luc-en-Diois	26	757 km SE	614	67.5	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Étienne-Vallée-Française	48	724 km SE	493	60	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 93 % · humidity 79 %
Villefort	48	702 km SE	618	68.8	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 43 % · humidity 93 %
Châtillon-en-Diois	26	752 km SE	669	55.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 12 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Honoré-les-Bains	58	487 km SE	678	58.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 47 % · humidity 93 %
Thiézac	15	596 km SE	590	58.4	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 19 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Honoré-les-Bains	58	487 km SE	678	58.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 47 % · humidity 93 %
Thiézac	15	596 km SE	590	58.4	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 19 % · humidity 93 %
Villefort	48	702 km SE	618	68.8	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 43 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Étienne-Vallée-Française	48	724 km SE	493	60	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 93 % · humidity 79 %
Châtillon-en-Diois	26	752 km SE	669	55.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 12 % · humidity 93 %
Luc-en-Diois	26	757 km SE	614	67.5	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · 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 Barfleur'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
Île-aux-Moines	56	258 km SW	630	64.1	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Ouessant	29	310 km SW	860	64	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Larmor-Baden	56	261 km SW	917	58.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Île-de-Bréhat	22	156 km SW	429	58	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Arromanches-les-Bains	14	59 km SE	413	55.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Plougrescant	22	170 km SW	1,242	45.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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