Cérences

Manche · CC de Granville, Terre et Mer · INSEE 50109

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Partly served 52.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 78 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cérences (INSEE 50109) is in Manche (50), part of CC de Granville, Terre et Mer. Population 1,852 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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 52.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 78 % of the 10,114 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.7	20	14.09
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.59	10	5.85
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.54	10	5.42
Housing mix	0.82	5	4.11

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 2 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA MIE DE MANUEL). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (PLAISIRS ET GOURMANDISES DU CHATEAU). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (INTERMARCHE). ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (L'EXPRESS · AMED). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (BAR DES SPORTS). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE J.PREVERT · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE ECOLE NOTRE-DAME). ^[3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (OLIVIER SESBOUE, MÉDECIN · FRANCOIS KAZANDJIAN, MÉDECIN · CÉLINE SEGUINOT, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE CERENCES). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (CERENCES AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE CÉRENCES). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE MULTISPORT). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (ELO' COIFFURE · STYL ET VOUS). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 2 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Nursery school (maternelle). ^[4,3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LA MIE DE MANUEL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	PLAISIRS ET GOURMANDISES DU CHATEAU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	INTERMARCHE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	3	L'EXPRESS · AMED	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	BAR DES SPORTS	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE J.PREVERT · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE ECOLE NOTRE-DAME	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	OLIVIER SESBOUE, MÉDECIN · FRANCOIS KAZANDJIAN, MÉDECIN · CÉLINE SEGUINOT, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE CERENCES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	CERENCES AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE CÉRENCES	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	SALLE MULTISPORT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	3	ELO' COIFFURE · STYL ET VOUS	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 1,833 peak 1975: 1,865 2023: 1,852 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,844 (2012) → 1,852 (2023): 0.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,777 (1990) → 1,852 (2023): 4.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,051, of which 8.9 % second homes and 9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Cérences): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Cérences): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Cérences): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Cérences): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Cérences): 0.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 3.3▸

Days at or below 0 °C 34.5

Muggy days a summer 1.5

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 3 days a year at or above 30 °C and 35 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the LONGUEVILLE weather station, 11.7 km away at 5 m; the village itself is at 51 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at CERISY LA SALLE, 16.7 km away at 134 m, over 21 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 83 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 997 mm of rain a year, spread over 147 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at QUETTREVILLE, 7.2 km away at 34 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50109/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50109/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50109/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50109/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50109
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
Bonny-sur-Loire	45	351 km SE	1,870	48.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 73 %
Le Faou	29	213 km W	1,911	62	Served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Symphorien-de-Lay	42	538 km SE	1,979	61.4	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 72 % · humidity 21 %
Beaune-la-Rolande	45	300 km E	1,992	54.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 78 %
Brezolles	28	185 km E	1,785	53.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Vaucouleurs	55	522 km E	1,906	50.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 36 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Brezolles	28	185 km E	1,785	53.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Le Faou	29	213 km W	1,911	62	Served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Beaune-la-Rolande	45	300 km E	1,992	54.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 78 %
Bonny-sur-Loire	45	351 km SE	1,870	48.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 73 %
Vaucouleurs	55	522 km E	1,906	50.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 36 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Symphorien-de-Lay	42	538 km SE	1,979	61.4	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 72 % · 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 Cérences'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
Josselin	56	135 km SW	2,584	66.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Caulnes	22	88 km SW	2,501	53.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Dinéault	29	215 km W	1,853	49.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Bouin	85	220 km S	2,205	53.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Gacé	61	127 km E	1,766	66.7	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Les Grandes-Ventes	76	216 km NE	1,725	55.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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