Héauville

Manche · CA du Cotentin · INSEE 50238

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

Few services 21.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 34 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Héauville (INSEE 50238) is in Manche (50), part of CA du Cotentin. Population 456 (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/50238-heauville

Vitality score

Vitality score 21.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 34 % of the 17,933 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.78	10	7.85
Housing mix	0.8	5	4

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 0 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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 ELEMENTAIRE	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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: 289 peak 2012: 494 2023: 456 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 494 (2012) → 456 (2023): -7.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 355 (1990) → 456 (2023): 28.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 190, of which 10 % second homes and 8.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.4 km NEBakery — 4.0 km SWGP — 4.5 km NPharmacy — 5.5 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 (Siouville-Hague): 4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Hague): 2.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (La Hague): 4.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Virandeville): 5.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Héauville): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 0.3▸

Days at or below 0 °C 4.9▸

Muggy days a summer 0.1

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 5 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the CHERBOURG-HOMET weather station, 14.8 km away at 19 m; the village itself is at 93 m. ^[12]

The village sits 74 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at PTE DE LA HAGUE, 19.1 km away at 6 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 87 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,101 mm of rain a year, spread over 148 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at TONNEVILLE, 9.3 km away at 97 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 — 50238/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50238/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50238/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50238/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50576
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50041
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50643
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50238
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
Camburat	46	619 km SE	455	23.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 3 % · winter 64 % · humidity 71 %
Bessay	85	342 km S	456	21.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 51 % · winter 68 %
Varennes	24	560 km S	458	20.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 21 % · winter 39 % · humidity 64 %
Silly-Tillard	60	288 km E	450	19.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 35 % · humidity 93 %
Grand-Camp	27	179 km E	452	17.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 50 % · humidity 93 %
Beauval-en-Caux	76	204 km E	464	19.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Grand-Camp	27	179 km E	452	17.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 50 % · humidity 93 %
Beauval-en-Caux	76	204 km E	464	19.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Silly-Tillard	60	288 km E	450	19.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 35 % · humidity 93 %
Bessay	85	342 km S	456	21.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 51 % · winter 68 %
Varennes	24	560 km S	458	20.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 21 % · winter 39 % · humidity 64 %
Camburat	46	619 km SE	455	23.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 3 % · winter 64 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Héauville'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
Teurthéville-Bocage	50	29 km E	594	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Maisons	14	82 km E	435	13.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Quemperven	22	146 km SW	417	22	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Crochte	59	333 km NE	659	22.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Bucéels	14	95 km SE	456	15	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Loup-Hors	14	86 km SE	504	17.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %

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