Martinvast

Manche · CA du Cotentin · INSEE 50294

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

Partly served 48.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 75 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Martinvast (INSEE 50294) is in Manche (50), part of CA du Cotentin. Population 1,348 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/50294-martinvast

Vitality score

Vitality score 48.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 75 % of the 12,371 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	0.34	25	8.55
Social	0.39	20	7.87
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.59	10	5.85
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.83	10	8.27
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.85

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 2 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE DE LA MAIRIE). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LE RABIO · MAISON DES PRODUITS REGIONAUX). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE CORRE MICHEL). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (L'ESTAMINET). ^[4]

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

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ANNE LADUNE-JEAN, MÉDECIN · VALERIE VENEL-CANUEL, MÉDECIN · LAURENT ANDRES, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE MARTINVAST). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE DE MARTINVAST 3 PLACE HUBERT DE POURTALÈS). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (COULEUR NATURE). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BOULANGERIE DE LA MAIRIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	LE RABIO · MAISON DES PRODUITS REGIONAUX	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	1	LE CORRE MICHEL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	L'ESTAMINET	INSEE SIRENE 1 [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)	3	ANNE LADUNE-JEAN, MÉDECIN · VALERIE VENEL-CANUEL, MÉDECIN · LAURENT ANDRES, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE MARTINVAST	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	MARTINVAST AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE DE MARTINVAST 3 PLACE HUBERT DE POURTALÈS	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	COULEUR NATURE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 820 2023: 1,348 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,218 (2012) → 1,348 (2023): 10.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,016 (1990) → 1,348 (2023): 32.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 604, of which 1.5 % second homes and 5.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP Food shop — 0.8 km NPharmacy — 4.1 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): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Martinvast): 0.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Martinvast): 0.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Cherbourg-en-Cotentin): 4.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Martinvast): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 0.3▸

Days at or below 0 °C 4.5▸

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 5 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CHERBOURG-HOMET weather station, 7.5 km away at 19 m; the village itself is at 69 m. ^[10]

The village sits 50 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at VALOGNES, 14.2 km away at 61 m, over 19 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,101 mm of rain a year, spread over 148 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at TONNEVILLE, 6.7 km away at 97 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50294/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50294/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50294/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50294/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50294
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
Folembray	02	357 km E	1,355	43.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 50 % · humidity 100 %
Beaurevoir	02	360 km E	1,281	43.9	Partly served	no figures
La Saulce	05	817 km SE	1,369	57.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Étreux	02	384 km E	1,436	49	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 22 %
Choisy-en-Brie	77	367 km E	1,354	54.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 46 % · humidity 100 %
Colombier-Fontaine	25	659 km E	1,232	45.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 21 % · winter 5 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Folembray	02	357 km E	1,355	43.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 50 % · humidity 100 %
Beaurevoir	02	360 km E	1,281	43.9	Partly served	no figures
Choisy-en-Brie	77	367 km E	1,354	54.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 46 % · humidity 100 %
Étreux	02	384 km E	1,436	49	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 22 %
Colombier-Fontaine	25	659 km E	1,232	45.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 21 % · winter 5 % · humidity 93 %
La Saulce	05	817 km SE	1,369	57.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · 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 Martinvast'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
Créhen	22	124 km S	1,671	54.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Canisy	50	68 km SE	1,707	51.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Plouider	29	221 km SW	1,809	40.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Irvillac	29	231 km SW	1,411	44	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Plogastel-Saint-Germain	29	262 km SW	2,024	46.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Lanhouarneau	29	217 km SW	1,282	36.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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