La Bloutière

Manche · CC de Villedieu Intercom · INSEE 50060

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

No daily shops 18.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 27 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Bloutière (INSEE 50060) is in Manche (50), part of CC de Villedieu Intercom. Population 423 (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 18.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 27 % of the 17,939 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.49	10	4.88
Housing mix	0.88	5	4.4

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

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

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE DU PRE VERT). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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)	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)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE DU PRE VERT	INSEE BPE 1 [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 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: 398 peak 1990: 428 2023: 423 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 411 (2012) → 423 (2023): 2.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 428 (1990) → 423 (2023): -1.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 232, of which 6 % second homes and 10.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.4 km SFood shop — 2.9 km SEPharmacy — 4.1 km SGP — 4.4 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 (Fleury): 2.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Colombe): 2.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Villedieu-les-Poêles-Rouffigny): 4.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Villedieu-les-Poêles-Rouffigny): 4.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (La Bloutière): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 4.4

Days at or below 0 °C 26.4

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 4 days a year at or above 30 °C and 26 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the COULOUVRAY-BOISBENATRE weather station, 13.9 km away at 268 m; the village itself is at 137 m. ^[12]

The village sits 131 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at BRECEY, 16.9 km away at 63 m, over 15 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 74 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,131 mm of rain a year, spread over 153 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at EQUILLY, 11.9 km away at 101 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50060/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50060/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50060/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50060/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50185
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50137
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50639
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50060
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
Escout	64	635 km S	423	18.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 76 % · humidity 21 %
Tigeaux	77	303 km E	421	21.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Laà-Mondrans	64	604 km S	423	17.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 99 % · humidity 0 %
Jaulges	89	384 km E	418	18.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Bernot	02	360 km E	431	17.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 69 %
Mornand-en-Forez	42	538 km SE	427	23.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 24 % · humidity 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Tigeaux	77	303 km E	421	21.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Bernot	02	360 km E	431	17.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 69 %
Jaulges	89	384 km E	418	18.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Mornand-en-Forez	42	538 km SE	427	23.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 24 % · humidity 0 %
Laà-Mondrans	64	604 km S	423	17.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 99 % · humidity 0 %
Escout	64	635 km S	423	18.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 76 % · humidity 21 %

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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 La Bloutière'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
Étalleville	76	178 km NE	431	20.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Maxent	80	249 km NE	390	19.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Le Torp-Mesnil	76	181 km NE	451	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Ransart	62	320 km NE	407	20.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Illois	76	231 km NE	381	24.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Grainville-sur-Ry	76	196 km E	438	20.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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