Buais-Les-Monts

Manche · CA Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie · INSEE 50090

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

Few services 27.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 45 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Buais-Les-Monts (INSEE 50090) is in Manche (50), part of CA Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie. Population 611 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2016-01-01 from 1 former commune: Saint-Symphorien-des-Monts (50557). ^[3]

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/50090-buais-les-monts

Vitality score

Vitality score 27.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 45 % of the 16,966 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.18	10	1.77
Housing mix	0.7	5	3.52

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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 food shop and somewhere to eat or drink, but no school. ^[4,5]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (VIVENOT). ^[4,5]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[4,5]

1 × Café / bar (L'AILE OU LA CUISSE). ^[5]

1 × Post office / agence postale (BUAIS RP). ^[4]

2 × Hairdresser. ^[4,5]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Butcher (boucherie).

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[5,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	VIVENOT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [5]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [5]
Café / bar	1	L'AILE OU LA CUISSE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	BUAIS RP	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	2		INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,5]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,164 2023: 611 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 674 (2012) → 611 (2023): -9.3 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 902 (1990) → 611 (2023): -32.3 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 472, of which 14.8 % second homes and 19.3 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 1.9 km NEGP — 5.0 km SFood shop — 5.3 km SPrimary school — 5.3 km SPharmacy — 5.3 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 (Buais-Les-Monts): 1.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Fougerolles-du-Plessis): 5.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Fougerolles-du-Plessis): 5 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Fougerolles-du-Plessis): 5.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Fougerolles-du-Plessis): 5.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.4

Days at or below 0 °C 48.4

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 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 48 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ST-HILAIRE-DU-H weather station, 10.6 km away at 95 m; the village itself is at 232 m. ^[11]

The village sits 137 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]

An average of 923 mm of rain a year, spread over 140 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ST-HILAIRE-DU-H, 10.6 km away at 95 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 — 50090/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50090/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50090/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50090/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50090
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53100
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
Jupilles	72	131 km SE	566	42	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 100 %
Saint-Mars-d'Égrenne	61	18 km E	630	34	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 89 %
Notre-Dame-de-Cenilly	50	57 km N	637	33.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 62 %
Esse	16	305 km SE	518	22.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 93 %
Lamotte-du-Rhône	84	641 km SE	403	44.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 0 % · winter 73 %
Échauffour	61	102 km E	717	30.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 99 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Mars-d'Égrenne	61	18 km E	630	34	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 89 %
Notre-Dame-de-Cenilly	50	57 km N	637	33.1	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 62 %
Échauffour	61	102 km E	717	30.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 99 %
Jupilles	72	131 km SE	566	42	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 100 %
Esse	16	305 km SE	518	22.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 93 %
Lamotte-du-Rhône	84	641 km SE	403	44.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 0 % · winter 73 %

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