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Clitourps

Manche · CA du Cotentin · INSEE 50135

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

Few services 22.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 66 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Clitourps (INSEE 50135) is in Manche (50), part of CA du Cotentin. Population 225 (2023). [1]

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

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/50135-clitourps

Vitality score

Vitality score 22.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 66 % of the 16,694 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0.32206.32
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend11010
Housing mix0.5752.84

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 1 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 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant (LE P'TIT GRILLEUR). [3,4]

1 × Hairdresser (DEDEL'COIF). [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant1LE P'TIT GRILLEURINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser1DEDEL'COIFINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 175 2023: 225 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 206 (2012) → 225 (2023): 9.2 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 140 (1990) → 225 (2023): 60.7 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 116, of which 21.6 % second homes and 3.4 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmPrimary school — 2.1 km NW (Saint-Pierre-Église)GP — 2.7 km NW (Saint-Pierre-Église)Pharmacy — 2.7 km NW (Saint-Pierre-Église)Bakery — 2.8 km NW (Saint-Pierre-Église)Food shop — 2.8 km NW (Saint-Pierre-Église)
Primary school — 2.1 km NWGP — 2.7 km NWPharmacy — 2.7 km NWBakery — 2.8 km NWFood shop — 2.8 km NW 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 (Saint-Pierre-Église): 2.8 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Saint-Pierre-Église): 2.8 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

GP (Saint-Pierre-Église): 2.7 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Pierre-Église): 2.7 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Saint-Pierre-Église): 2.1 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 14 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. [9]

Measured at the BARFLEUR weather station, 6.7 km away at 13 m; the village itself is at 90 m. [9]

The village sits 77 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. [9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [9]

Humidity measured at GONNEVILLE, 6.7 km away at 134 m, over 30 summers. [9]

An average of 864 mm of rain a year, spread over 132 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. [9]

Rainfall measured at BARFLEUR, 6.7 km away at 13 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50135/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50135/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50135/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50135/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 50539
  9. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Briant71555 km SE22216.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 46 % · humidity 100 %
Meaux-la-Montagne69589 km SE22320.9Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 0 % · humidity 100 %
Montliard45330 km SE22321.9Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 36 %
Bach46633 km S21122.5Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 51 % · humidity 93 %
Lavaudieu43608 km SE24319.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 14 % · humidity 93 %
Albignac19552 km SE23615.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 22 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Montliard45330 km SE22321.9Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 36 %
Albignac19552 km SE23615.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 22 % · humidity 93 %
Briant71555 km SE22216.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 46 % · humidity 100 %
Meaux-la-Montagne69589 km SE22320.9Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 0 % · humidity 100 %
Lavaudieu43608 km SE24319.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 14 % · humidity 93 %
Bach46633 km S21122.5Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 51 % · 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 Clitourps'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Sainte-Tréphine22202 km SW18914.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Dancourt76211 km E23516.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Julien-sur-Calonne14122 km E17816.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Montaigu-les-Bois5085 km S2049.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Canchy1446 km SE20210.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Lescouët-Gouarec22215 km SW2168.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %