Notre-Dame-de-Cenilly

Manche · CC Coutances Mer et Bocage · INSEE 50378

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

Few services 33.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 60 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Notre-Dame-de-Cenilly (INSEE 50378) is in Manche (50), part of CC Coutances Mer et Bocage. Population 637 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 33.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 60 % of the 16,806 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.47	10	4.65
Housing mix	0.8	5	3.98

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 1 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) (DUDUCHE CCT). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LES GARS-MELLES). ^[4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (NOTRE DAME DE CENILLY RP). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (S'DCOUPE). ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	DUDUCHE CCT	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	1	LES GARS-MELLES	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)	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	1	NOTRE DAME DE CENILLY RP	INSEE BPE 1 [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	S'DCOUPE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 919 2023: 637 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 682 (2012) → 637 (2023): -6.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 660 (1990) → 637 (2023): -3.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 363, of which 10.2 % second homes and 10.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school GP — 3.5 km NFood shop — 3.8 km NWPharmacy — 3.9 km NW 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 (Notre-Dame-de-Cenilly): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Cerisy-la-Salle): 3.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Cerisy-la-Salle): 3.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Cerisy-la-Salle): 3.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Notre-Dame-de-Cenilly): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 2.6▸

Days at or below 0 °C 19.8

Muggy days a summer 0.9

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 20 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CERISY LA SALLE weather station, 5.4 km away at 134 m; the village itself is at 128 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at CERISY LA SALLE, 5.4 km away at 134 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,104 mm of rain a year, spread over 152 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CERISY LA SALLE, 5.4 km away at 134 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 — 50378/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50378/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50378/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50378/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50378
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50111
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
Cuguen	35	68 km SW	828	38.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Neuvic-Entier	87	423 km SE	865	31.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Sillars	86	324 km SE	584	26.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Malon-sur-Mel	35	118 km SW	618	44.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Beaumarchés	32	611 km S	689	29.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 97 % · humidity 36 %
Vernoux-en-Gâtine	79	268 km S	592	38	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 76 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Cuguen	35	68 km SW	828	38.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Malon-sur-Mel	35	118 km SW	618	44.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Vernoux-en-Gâtine	79	268 km S	592	38	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 76 % · humidity 79 %
Sillars	86	324 km SE	584	26.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %
Neuvic-Entier	87	423 km SE	865	31.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Beaumarchés	32	611 km S	689	29.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 97 % · humidity 36 %

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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 Notre-Dame-de-Cenilly'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
Mont-Saint-Jean	72	119 km SE	628	25.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Brachy	76	184 km NE	663	36.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Sacey	50	56 km S	508	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Marchésieux	50	22 km N	665	26.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Denis-le-Gast	50	8.1 km SW	530	18.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Plouyé	29	197 km W	687	34	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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