Brillevast

Manche · CA du Cotentin · INSEE 50086

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

No daily shops 17.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 32 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Brillevast (INSEE 50086) is in Manche (50), part of CA du Cotentin. Population 318 (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 17.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 32 % of the 17,908 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	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.53	10	5.32
Housing mix	0.83	5	4.13

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 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, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LELERRE GERMAINE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: 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	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LELERRE GERMAINE	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	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	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: 262 peak 2012: 344 2023: 318 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 344 (2012) → 318 (2023): -7.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 308 (1990) → 318 (2023): 3.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 173, of which 8.7 % second homes and 3.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 2.9 km EFood shop — 3.8 km NPrimary school — 4.2 km SGP — 4.7 km NPharmacy — 4.7 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 (Brillevast): 2.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Pierre-Église): 3.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Pierre-Église): 4.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Pierre-Église): 4.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Teurthéville-Bocage): 4.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 0.8▸

Days at or below 0 °C 11.5▸

Muggy days a summer 0.5

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 12 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the GONNEVILLE weather station, 4.4 km away at 134 m; the village itself is at 104 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at GONNEVILLE, 4.4 km away at 134 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 954 mm of rain a year, spread over 141 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at GONNEVILLE, 4.4 km away at 134 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 — 50086/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50086/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50086/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50086/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50086
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50539
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50593
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
Fresney	27	211 km E	314	22.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 49 % · humidity 100 %
Juicq	17	425 km S	320	22.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 78 % · humidity 64 %
Villeneuve-sous-Pymont	39	611 km SE	317	22.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 49 % · humidity 86 %
Ernes	14	115 km SE	327	19.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 50 % · humidity 100 %
Déservillers	25	626 km SE	341	19.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 3 % · humidity 93 %
Arthezé	72	226 km SE	350	20	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Ernes	14	115 km SE	327	19.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 50 % · humidity 100 %
Fresney	27	211 km E	314	22.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 49 % · humidity 100 %
Arthezé	72	226 km SE	350	20	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Juicq	17	425 km S	320	22.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 78 % · humidity 64 %
Villeneuve-sous-Pymont	39	611 km SE	317	22.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 49 % · humidity 86 %
Déservillers	25	626 km SE	341	19.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 3 % · 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 Brillevast'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
Cametours	50	63 km S	434	20.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Agy	14	64 km SE	320	12.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Théville	50	2.8 km N	310	14.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Étréham	14	56 km SE	324	14.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Condé-sur-Seulles	14	72 km SE	302	17.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Le Mesnil-Amey	50	60 km S	288	13.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

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