Benoîtville

Manche · CA du Cotentin · INSEE 50045

A food shop and somewhere to eat or drink, but no school.

Few services 29.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 48 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Benoîtville (INSEE 50045) is in Manche (50), part of CA du Cotentin. Population 640 (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/50045-benoitville

Vitality score

Vitality score 29.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 48 % of the 16,807 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.94	10	9.45
Housing mix	0.82	5	4.12

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 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”.

A food shop and somewhere to eat or drink, but no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (AU SECHOIR D'ANTAN). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	AU SECHOIR D'ANTAN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 336 2023: 640 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 606 (2012) → 640 (2023): 5.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 443 (1990) → 640 (2023): 44.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 317, of which 8.8 % second homes and 4.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 1.4 km SWFood shop — 1.9 km SWPrimary school — 2.4 km NEGP — 2.7 km SWPharmacy — 6.2 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 (Les Pieux): 1.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Les Pieux): 1.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Les Pieux): 2.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Virandeville): 6.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Sotteville): 2.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 2.7▸

Days at or below 0 °C 32.1

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 3 days a year at or above 30 °C and 32 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the BRICQUEBEC weather station, 11.9 km away at 38 m; the village itself is at 57 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at VALOGNES, 19.8 km away at 61 m, over 19 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,231 mm of rain a year, spread over 154 days — about 8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at BRICQUEBEC, 11.9 km away at 38 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50045/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50045/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50045/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50045/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50402
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50643
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50580
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
Saint-Pierre-d'Amilly	17	382 km S	575	29.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 54 % · winter 80 %
Montaut	31	726 km S	578	30.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 85 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Léger	17	444 km S	679	30.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 95 % · humidity 43 %
Foussignac	16	442 km S	661	27.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 100 % · humidity 79 %
Blacy	51	469 km E	614	27.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
La Vacherie	27	217 km E	557	28.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Vacherie	27	217 km E	557	28.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pierre-d'Amilly	17	382 km S	575	29.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 54 % · winter 80 %
Foussignac	16	442 km S	661	27.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 100 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Léger	17	444 km S	679	30.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 95 % · humidity 43 %
Blacy	51	469 km E	614	27.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Montaut	31	726 km S	578	30.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 85 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Benoîtville'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
Le Tilleul	76	144 km E	656	37.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Écuires	62	273 km NE	682	14.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Épinay-sur-Odon	14	98 km SE	632	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Fresnes-lès-Montauban	62	349 km E	604	38.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Rosel	14	101 km E	696	22.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Villers-Canivet	14	129 km SE	720	22.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

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