Rauville-la-Bigot

Manche · CA du Cotentin · INSEE 50425

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

Partly served 40.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 62 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Rauville-la-Bigot (INSEE 50425) is in Manche (50), part of CA du Cotentin. Population 1,082 (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 40.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 62 % of the 13,848 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.81	10	8.15
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.67

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 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) (LA RAUVILLAISE). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (LEGENDRE). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (THIBAULT PIZZA). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (COIF' EN BULLES). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette).

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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	LA RAUVILLAISE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	LEGENDRE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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	2	THIBAULT PIZZA	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LUCIEN GOUBERT	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	LA POSTE	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	2	COIF' EN BULLES	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 663 peak 2012: 1,197 2023: 1,082 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,197 (2012) → 1,082 (2023): -9.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 823 (1990) → 1,082 (2023): 31.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 509, of which 3.3 % second homes and 4.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 6.3 km NWPharmacy — 6.4 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 (Rauville-la-Bigot): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Rauville-la-Bigot): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Virandeville): 6.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Virandeville): 6.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Rauville-la-Bigot): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 2▸

Days at or below 0 °C 33.4

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 33 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the BRICQUEBEC weather station, 6.8 km away at 38 m; the village itself is at 91 m. ^[10]

The village sits 53 m above 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. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at VALOGNES, 12.7 km away at 61 m, over 19 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,231 mm of rain a year, spread over 154 days — about 8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BRICQUEBEC, 6.8 km away at 38 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 — 50425/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50425/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50425/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50425/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50425
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50643
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
Chaveyriat	01	624 km SE	1,078	40.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 13 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %
Sagy	95	269 km E	1,096	33.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Beauvoir-de-Marc	38	675 km SE	1,098	37.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 28 % · winter 82 %
Lombers	81	699 km SE	1,080	48.6	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Golfech	82	631 km S	1,007	53.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 0 % · winter 95 %
Chemiré-le-Gaudin	72	215 km SE	998	56.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Chemiré-le-Gaudin	72	215 km SE	998	56.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Sagy	95	269 km E	1,096	33.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Chaveyriat	01	624 km SE	1,078	40.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 13 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %
Golfech	82	631 km S	1,007	53.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 0 % · winter 95 %
Beauvoir-de-Marc	38	675 km SE	1,098	37.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 28 % · winter 82 %
Lombers	81	699 km SE	1,080	48.6	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Rauville-la-Bigot'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
Cesny-les-Sources	14	112 km SE	1,411	44.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Ferfay	62	314 km E	861	46.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Amayé-sur-Orne	14	102 km SE	1,079	45.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
L'Étoile	80	274 km E	1,128	26.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Garlan	29	182 km SW	1,043	34.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Brusvily	22	130 km S	1,153	43.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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