Hardinvast

Manche · CA du Cotentin · INSEE 50230

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

Few services 29.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 34 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Hardinvast (INSEE 50230) is in Manche (50), part of CA du Cotentin. Population 928 (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/50230-hardinvast

Vitality score

Vitality score 29.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 34 % of the 14,783 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.74	10	7.44
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.78

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 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 a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (TERRE, MER ET TRADITION). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'HARDINVAST). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	TERRE, MER ET TRADITION	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'HARDINVAST	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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: 412 2023: 928 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 885 (2012) → 928 (2023): 4.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 746 (1990) → 928 (2023): 24.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 410, of which 2.2 % second homes and 1.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 0.6 km NWBakery — 2.1 km NWGP — 2.4 km NWPharmacy — 5.2 km NE 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 (Martinvast): 2.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Hardinvast): 0.6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Martinvast): 2.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Cherbourg-en-Cotentin): 5.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Hardinvast): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 0.3▸

Days at or below 0 °C 6.3▸

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 0 days a year at or above 30 °C and 6 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CHERBOURG-HOMET weather station, 9 km away at 19 m; the village itself is at 107 m. ^[11]

The village sits 88 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]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at VALOGNES, 12.3 km away at 61 m, over 19 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,101 mm of rain a year, spread over 148 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at TONNEVILLE, 8.8 km away at 97 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 — 50230/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50230/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50230/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50230/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50294
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50230
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50129
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
Trois-Palis	16	456 km S	944	33	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 28 % · winter 53 % · humidity 79 %
Sarrigné	49	249 km S	935	32.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 49 % · humidity 93 %
Sarcey	69	620 km SE	980	34.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 3 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle du Lou du Lac	35	154 km S	1,050	27	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 49 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Pierre-en-Val	76	227 km E	1,088	22.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 61 %
Morgny-la-Pommeraye	76	209 km E	1,065	25.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 54 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Chapelle du Lou du Lac	35	154 km S	1,050	27	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 49 % · humidity 93 %
Morgny-la-Pommeraye	76	209 km E	1,065	25.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 54 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pierre-en-Val	76	227 km E	1,088	22.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 61 %
Sarrigné	49	249 km S	935	32.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 49 % · humidity 93 %
Trois-Palis	16	456 km S	944	33	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 28 % · winter 53 % · humidity 79 %
Sarcey	69	620 km SE	980	34.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 3 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Hardinvast'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
Sommervieu	14	79 km SE	987	30.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Le Tréhou	29	224 km SW	633	32.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Plougar	29	214 km SW	789	30.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Servais	29	218 km SW	784	34.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Moulins-en-Bessin	14	85 km SE	1,125	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Le Mesnil-au-Val	50	9.4 km E	729	23.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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