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Montabot

Manche · CC de Villedieu Intercom · INSEE 50334

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 9.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 6 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montabot (INSEE 50334) is in Manche (50), part of CC de Villedieu Intercom. Population 271 (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/50334-montabot

Vitality score

Vitality score 9.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 6 % of the 17,546 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.43104.34
Housing mix0.6853.4

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 395 2023: 271 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 281 (2012) → 271 (2023): -3.6 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 290 (1990) → 271 (2023): -6.6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 169, of which 16 % second homes and 10.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 5.1 km W (Percy-en-Normandie)Primary school — 5.1 km SW (Percy-en-Normandie)GP — 5.1 km W (Percy-en-Normandie)Food shop — 5.2 km W (Percy-en-Normandie)Pharmacy — 5.2 km W (Percy-en-Normandie)
Bakery — 5.1 km WPrimary school — 5.1 km SWGP — 5.1 km WFood shop — 5.2 km WPharmacy — 5.2 km W 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 (Percy-en-Normandie): 5.1 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Percy-en-Normandie): 5.2 km to the west (straight line). [8]

GP (Percy-en-Normandie): 5.1 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Percy-en-Normandie): 5.2 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Percy-en-Normandie): 5.1 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 3 days a year at or above 30 °C and 36 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. [9]

Measured at the GIEVILLE weather station, 14.3 km away at 134 m; the village itself is at 181 m. [9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [9]

Humidity measured at GIEVILLE, 14.3 km away at 134 m, over 10 summers. [9]

An average of 1,017 mm of rain a year, spread over 148 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. [9]

Rainfall measured at ST LOUET SUR VI, 11.7 km away at 120 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50334/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50334/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50334/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50334/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 50393
  9. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Chaveroche19452 km SE26815.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 19 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Quentin-de-Caplong33471 km S2678.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 21 % · winter 78 %
Thubœuf5369 km SE27111.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Vigor-des-Monts503.8 km SE28410.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Pré-Saint-Évroult28208 km SE2839.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-Viel61130 km E28914.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Vigor-des-Monts503.8 km SE28410.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Thubœuf5369 km SE27111.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-Viel61130 km E28914.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Pré-Saint-Évroult28208 km SE2839.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Chaveroche19452 km SE26815.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 19 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Quentin-de-Caplong33471 km S2678.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 21 % · winter 78 %

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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 Montabot'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Vigor-des-Monts503.8 km SE28410.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Le Mesnillard5034 km S2578.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Planquery1433 km NE2499.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Sorbais02379 km E2669No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Lannoy-Cuillère60225 km NE27813No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Pierrefitte-en-Cinglais1454 km E2379.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %