Genêts

Manche · CA Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie · INSEE 50199

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

Partly served 44.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 90 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Genêts (INSEE 50199) is in Manche (50), part of CA Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie. Population 451 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/50199-genets

Vitality score

Vitality score 44.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 90 % of the 17,929 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	0.91	20	18.15
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.44	10	4.38
Housing mix	0.3	5	1.52

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 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. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (SARL BOULANGERIE HOUEL). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (CAFE EPICERIE DE LA BAIE). ^[3,4]

1 × Fishmonger (POISSONNERIE DE LA BROCHARDIERE). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LA PAUSE DES GENETS · AU CORNET DE CREPE). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar (BAR LE GENETS · BAR DU BEC D'ANDAINE · LA MAISON). ^[4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE GENÊTS BUREAU DE POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (L'HAIR DE GENETS). ^[3,4]

2 × Campsite (CAMPING LES COQUES D'OR · CAMPING LA PÉRAME). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 2 × Restaurant, 1 × Hotel.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	SARL BOULANGERIE HOUEL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	CAFE EPICERIE DE LA BAIE	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	1	POISSONNERIE DE LA BROCHARDIERE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Restaurant	2	LA PAUSE DES GENETS · AU CORNET DE CREPE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	3	BAR LE GENETS · BAR DU BEC D'ANDAINE · LA MAISON	INSEE SIRENE 3 [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	1	GENETS AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE GENÊTS BUREAU DE POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	L'HAIR DE GENETS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Campsite	2	CAMPING LES COQUES D'OR · CAMPING LA PÉRAME	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 501 peak 1975: 524 2023: 451 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 413 (2012) → 451 (2023): 9.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 481 (1990) → 451 (2023): -6.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 411, of which 34.8 % second homes and 4.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery Primary school — 3.3 km NEFood shop — 7.4 km NPharmacy — 7.6 km EGP — 7.7 km E 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 (Genêts): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sartilly-Baie-Bocage): 7.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Marcey-les-Grèves): 7.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Marcey-les-Grèves): 7.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Bacilly): 3.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.5

Days at or below 0 °C 27.1

Muggy days a summer 1.8

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 27 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the PONTORSON weather station, 11 km away at 33 m; the village itself is at 9 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at PONTORSON, 11 km away at 33 m, over 28 summers. ^[12]

An average of 998 mm of rain a year, spread over 142 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LOLIF, 6.3 km away at 72 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50199/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50199/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50199/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50199/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50199
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50565
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50288
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50027
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
Saint-André-de-Cruzières	07	652 km SE	467	37.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Mons	34	663 km SE	678	46.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 13 % · winter 81 % · humidity 79 %
Le Caylar	34	650 km SE	460	57.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %
Chanaz	73	635 km SE	551	54.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 44 % · winter 76 %
Lapleau	19	467 km SE	393	45.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 64 %
Saint-Saturnin-de-Lenne	12	585 km SE	328	29.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Lapleau	19	467 km SE	393	45.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 64 %
Saint-Saturnin-de-Lenne	12	585 km SE	328	29.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Chanaz	73	635 km SE	551	54.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 44 % · winter 76 %
Le Caylar	34	650 km SE	460	57.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-André-de-Cruzières	07	652 km SE	467	37.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Mons	34	663 km SE	678	46.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 13 % · winter 81 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Genêts'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
Beauvoir	50	9.8 km S	419	41.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Sotteville-sur-Mer	76	214 km NE	392	32.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Brennilis	29	179 km W	454	36.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Plorec-sur-Arguenon	22	65 km W	467	27.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Beaumont-en-Auge	14	133 km NE	376	25.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-Montligeon	61	158 km E	509	45	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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