Marchésieux

Identity

Marchésieux (INSEE 50289) is in Manche (50), part of CC Côte Ouest Centre Manche. Population 665 (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/50289-marchesieux

Vitality score

Vitality score 26.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 36 % of the 16,657 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.

Services

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (MA P'TITE BOULANGE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE MARCHÉSIEUX). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Restaurant.

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

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 723 (2012) → 665 (2023): -8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 653 (1990) → 665 (2023): 1.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 368, of which 11.4 % second homes and 9.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Marchésieux): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Remilly Les Marais): 2.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Sauveur-Villages): 6.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Remilly Les Marais): 2.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Marchésieux): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

An average of 2 days a year at or above 30 °C and 27 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the PONT-HEBERT weather station, 11.1 km away at 58 m; the village itself is at 16 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CERISY LA SALLE, 16.9 km away at 134 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 118 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 937 mm of rain a year, spread over 142 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MEAUTIS, 8 km away at 15 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

What property sold for

50 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 136,000 € — 688 € per m² of built surface. ^[12]

The median across Manche is 1,444 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[12]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50289/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50289/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50289/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50289/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 50289
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 50431
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 50550
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
12. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025