Reffuveille

Manche · CA Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie · INSEE 50428

A food shop and somewhere to eat or drink, but no school.

Few services 34.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 70 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Reffuveille (INSEE 50428) is in Manche (50), part of CA Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie. Population 550 (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/50428-reffuveille

Vitality score

Vitality score 34.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 70 % of the 17,522 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	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.53	10	5.3
Housing mix	0.59	5	2.96

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (L'ENTR AMIE). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE BOUILLON NORMAND). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (REFFUVEILLE RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE REFFUVEILLE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		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	1	L'ENTR AMIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE BOUILLON NORMAND	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	REFFUVEILLE RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE REFFUVEILLE	INSEE BPE 1 [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		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: 842 2023: 550 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 498 (2012) → 550 (2023): 10.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 534 (1990) → 550 (2023): 3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 334, of which 20.4 % second homes and 3.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery Primary school — 5.2 km WGP — 6.8 km EFood shop — 6.9 km EPharmacy — 6.9 km E 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 (Reffuveille): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Juvigny les Vallées): 6.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Juvigny les Vallées): 6.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Juvigny les Vallées): 6.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Le Grand-Celland): 5.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 2.3▸

Days at or below 0 °C 59.9

Muggy days a summer 0.5

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 60 days at or below 0 °C, over 14 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the BRECEY weather station, 7.8 km away at 63 m; the village itself is at 227 m. ^[11]

The village sits 164 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at BRECEY, 7.8 km away at 63 m, over 15 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 164 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 1,159 mm of rain a year, spread over 154 days — about 7.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at JUVIGNY-LE-T, 6.5 km away at 256 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 — 50428/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50428/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50428/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50428/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50428
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50260
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50217
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
Saint-Pierre-du-Champ	43	538 km SE	565	42.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 7 %
Vesdun	18	356 km SE	540	39.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 96 % · humidity 79 %
Ségur	12	573 km SE	534	38.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 86 %
Montbrun-Bocage	31	643 km S	592	52	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 89 % · humidity 57 %
Troche	19	413 km SE	534	30.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
Montpezat	47	497 km S	566	44.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 47 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Vesdun	18	356 km SE	540	39.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 96 % · humidity 79 %
Troche	19	413 km SE	534	30.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
Montpezat	47	497 km S	566	44.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 47 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Pierre-du-Champ	43	538 km SE	565	42.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 7 %
Ségur	12	573 km SE	534	38.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 86 %
Montbrun-Bocage	31	643 km S	592	52	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 89 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Reffuveille'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
La Côte-Saint-Didier	42	492 km SE	520	29.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Diéry	63	467 km SE	546	38.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Regniowez	08	426 km E	369	20.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Champrepus	50	24 km NW	322	27.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Chély-d'Aubrac	12	548 km SE	517	53.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Ciral	61	74 km E	409	30.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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