Gonneville-Le Theil

Manche · CA du Cotentin · INSEE 50209

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

Few services 31.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 22 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Gonneville-Le Theil (INSEE 50209) is in Manche (50), part of CA du Cotentin. Population 1,513 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2016-01-01 from 1 former commune: Le Theil (50595). ^[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/50209-gonneville-le-theil

Vitality score

Vitality score 31.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 22 % of the 11,563 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	25	0
Social	0.59	20	11.7
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.67	10	6.67
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.56

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant (ROTISSERIE HEBERT). ^[4,5]

3 × Café / bar. ^[5]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE MARIE COUPEY). ^[4]

2 × Hairdresser (FLORENCE COIFFURE · BELLE DE LA TETE AUX PIEDS). ^[4,5]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
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	1	ROTISSERIE HEBERT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Café / bar	3		INSEE SIRENE 3 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE MARIE COUPEY	INSEE BPE 1 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	FLORENCE COIFFURE · BELLE DE LA TETE AUX PIEDS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,5]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 909 peak 2012: 1,554 2023: 1,513 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,554 (2012) → 1,513 (2023): -2.6 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,296 (1990) → 1,513 (2023): 16.7 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 679, of which 4.4 % second homes and 5.7 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.8 km SFood shop — 3.2 km NEGP — 4.0 km NWBakery — 5.7 km WPharmacy — 5.7 km W 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 (Digosville): 5.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Carneville): 3.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Bretteville): 4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

Pharmacy (Digosville): 5.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Gonneville-Le Theil): 2.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[12]

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. ^[13]

Measured at the GONNEVILLE weather station, 2.1 km away at 134 m; the village itself is at 131 m. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at GONNEVILLE, 2.1 km away at 134 m, over 30 summers. ^[13]

An average of 954 mm of rain a year, spread over 141 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at GONNEVILLE, 2.1 km away at 134 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50209/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50209/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50209/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50209/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50162
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50101
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50077
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50209
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
Brandivy	56	233 km SW	1,466	33.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Planchers	50	91 km S	1,486	29.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 69 %
La Loubière	12	659 km SE	1,573	39.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 41 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Priest	07	711 km SE	1,345	32.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Courtenay	38	672 km SE	1,277	30.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 20 % · humidity 93 %
Yves	17	401 km S	1,585	42.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 78 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Planchers	50	91 km S	1,486	29.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 69 %
Brandivy	56	233 km SW	1,466	33.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Yves	17	401 km S	1,585	42.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 78 % · humidity 64 %
La Loubière	12	659 km SE	1,573	39.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 41 % · humidity 100 %
Courtenay	38	672 km SE	1,277	30.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 20 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Priest	07	711 km SE	1,345	32.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 69 % · 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 Gonneville-Le Theil'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
Saint-Frégant	29	240 km SW	874	39.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Donan	22	165 km SW	1,477	34.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Sève	29	212 km SW	1,077	33.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Teurthéville-Hague	50	19 km W	1,037	25.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Tollevast	50	13 km SW	1,654	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Le Fœil	22	170 km SW	1,375	27.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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