Le Mesnil

Manche · CA du Cotentin · INSEE 50299

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

No daily shops 18.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 58 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Mesnil (INSEE 50299) is in Manche (50), part of CA du Cotentin. Population 189 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 18.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 58 % of the 15,632 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.76	10	7.6
Housing mix	0.59	5	2.93

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [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: 147 peak 2017: 219 2023: 189 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 207 (2012) → 189 (2023): -8.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 150 (1990) → 189 (2023): 26 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 121, of which 20.7 % second homes and 6.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.5 km NWGP — 3.6 km SFood shop — 3.7 km SBakery — 3.8 km SPharmacy — 3.8 km S 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 (Port-Bail-sur-Mer): 3.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Port-Bail-sur-Mer): 3.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Port-Bail-sur-Mer): 3.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Port-Bail-sur-Mer): 3.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Maurice-en-Cotentin): 2.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 1.3▸

Days at or below 0 °C 9.2▸

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 9 days at or below 0 °C, over 12 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the BARNEVILLE CART weather station, 8.1 km away at 62 m; the village itself is at 39 m. ^[10]

An average of 1,069 mm of rain a year, spread over 152 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at FIERVILLE-LES-M, 1.9 km away at 72 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 — 50299/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50299/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50299/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50299/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50412
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50522
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
Dannevoux	55	502 km E	188	14.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 47 %
Gizia	39	617 km SE	186	13.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 41 % · winter 9 %
Pressigny	52	570 km E	195	12.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 20 %
Sauguis-Saint-Étienne	64	694 km S	172	13.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 44 % · winter 78 %
Anglars	46	582 km SE	218	18.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 49 % · winter 65 %
Plagne	01	657 km SE	159	21.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 12 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Dannevoux	55	502 km E	188	14.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 47 %
Pressigny	52	570 km E	195	12.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 20 %
Anglars	46	582 km SE	218	18.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 49 % · winter 65 %
Gizia	39	617 km SE	186	13.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 41 % · winter 9 %
Plagne	01	657 km SE	159	21.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 12 %
Sauguis-Saint-Étienne	64	694 km S	172	13.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 44 % · winter 78 %

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