Ponts

Identity

Ponts (INSEE 50411) is in Manche (50), part of CA Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie. Population 708 (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/50411-ponts

Vitality score

Vitality score 17.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 8 % of the 16,345 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.

Services

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

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

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

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]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

Population 612 (2012) → 708 (2023): 15.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 482 (1990) → 708 (2023): 46.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 327, of which 1.5 % second homes and 8.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Avranches): 2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Avranches): 0.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Avranches): 0.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Avranches): 2.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Avranches): 0.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

An average of 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 44 days at or below 0 °C, over 14 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the BRECEY weather station, 13.1 km away at 63 m; the village itself is at 12 m. ^[9]

The village sits 51 m below 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. ^[9]

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

Humidity measured at BRECEY, 13.1 km away at 63 m, over 15 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 51 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 998 mm of rain a year, spread over 142 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at LOLIF, 6.3 km away at 72 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

What property sold for

51 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 179,000 € — 1,060 € per m² of built surface. ^[10]

The median across Manche is 1,444 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[10]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50411/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50411/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50411/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50411/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 50025
9. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
10. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025