Bricquebosq

Manche · CA du Cotentin · INSEE 50083

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

Few services 24.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 33 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bricquebosq (INSEE 50083) is in Manche (50), part of CA du Cotentin. Population 638 (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 24.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 33 % of the 16,783 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	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.75

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

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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 PUBLIQUE	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	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: 389 2023: 638 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 555 (2012) → 638 (2023): 15 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 414 (1990) → 638 (2023): 54.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 284, of which 2.5 % second homes and 6.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.0 km SEBakery — 3.1 km SEGP — 4.1 km NPharmacy — 4.2 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 (Rauville-la-Bigot): 3.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Rauville-la-Bigot): 3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Virandeville): 4.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Virandeville): 4.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Bricquebosq): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 2▸

Days at or below 0 °C 33.7

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 2 days a year at or above 30 °C and 34 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the BRICQUEBEC weather station, 9.3 km away at 38 m; the village itself is at 109 m. ^[11]

The village sits 71 m above 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. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at VALOGNES, 15.4 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, 9.3 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 — 50083/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50083/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50083/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50083/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50425
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50643
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50083
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
La Forêt-du-Parc	27	226 km E	642	23.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Saligny	89	399 km E	647	21.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-du-Bois-des-Faulx	27	214 km E	637	24.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Castétis	64	679 km S	645	19.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 91 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Denis-sur-Scie	76	204 km E	644	24.9	Few services	no figures
Le Born	31	675 km SE	652	24.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 15 % · winter 70 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Denis-sur-Scie	76	204 km E	644	24.9	Few services	no figures
La Chapelle-du-Bois-des-Faulx	27	214 km E	637	24.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
La Forêt-du-Parc	27	226 km E	642	23.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Saligny	89	399 km E	647	21.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Le Born	31	675 km SE	652	24.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 15 % · winter 70 %
Castétis	64	679 km S	645	19.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 91 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Bricquebosq'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
Bois-l'Évêque	76	216 km E	641	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Banvou	61	129 km SE	630	23.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Émiéville	14	116 km E	626	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Graimbouville	76	148 km E	604	24.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Rocheville	50	9.5 km E	620	20.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Hautot-Saint-Sulpice	76	178 km E	688	23.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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