Moon-sur-Elle

Manche · CA Saint-Lô Agglo · INSEE 50356

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

Few services 31.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 48 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Moon-sur-Elle (INSEE 50356) is in Manche (50), part of CA Saint-Lô Agglo. Population 781 (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/50356-moon-sur-elle

Vitality score

Vitality score 31.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 48 % of the 15,780 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.49	10	4.86
Housing mix	0.84	5	4.22

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 1 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) (LE FOURNIL DE JEROME). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (BAR TABAC DU DEPART). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE LA RITOURN'ELLE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (FOLINK). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie), 1 × Supermarket.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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)	1	LE FOURNIL DE JEROME	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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	1	BAR TABAC DU DEPART	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE LA RITOURN'ELLE	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	1	FOLINK	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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: 765 peak 2017: 842 2023: 781 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 838 (2012) → 781 (2023): -6.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 792 (1990) → 781 (2023): -1.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 448, of which 7.8 % second homes and 11.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 1.1 km NBakery — 1.7 km NGP — 2.4 km SEPharmacy — 2.4 km SE 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 (Moon-sur-Elle): 1.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sainte-Marguerite-d'Elle): 1.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Clair-sur-l'Elle): 2.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Clair-sur-l'Elle): 2.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Moon-sur-Elle): 0.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 2.4▸

Days at or below 0 °C 26.5

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 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, 7.6 km away at 58 m; the village itself is at 40 m. ^[11]

An average of 971 mm of rain a year, spread over 147 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at PONT-HEBERT, 7.6 km away at 58 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50356/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50356/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50356/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50356/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50356
INSEE BPE 2025 — 14614
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50455
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
Plesder	35	110 km SW	790	37.8	Few services	no figures
Alluyes	28	208 km SE	756	35.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 72 %
Kergloff	29	216 km SW	897	34.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 84 %
Montrelais	44	203 km S	859	37.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 51 % · winter 85 %
Humbécourt	52	440 km E	761	34.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 65 %
Hennezis	27	182 km E	744	32.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 68 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Plesder	35	110 km SW	790	37.8	Few services	no figures
Hennezis	27	182 km E	744	32.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 68 %
Montrelais	44	203 km S	859	37.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 51 % · winter 85 %
Alluyes	28	208 km SE	756	35.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 72 %
Kergloff	29	216 km SW	897	34.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 84 %
Humbécourt	52	440 km E	761	34.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 65 %

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Elsewhere

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