Romagny Fontenay

Identity

Romagny Fontenay (INSEE 50436) is in Manche (50), part of CA Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie. Population 1,243 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2016-01-01 from 1 former commune: Fontenay (50189). ^[3]

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/50436-romagny-fontenay

Vitality score

Vitality score 29.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 23 % of the 13,003 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

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[4,5]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[4,5]

2 × Restaurant (CHEZ PHIL). ^[4,5]

1 × Café / bar (LE FONTENAY). ^[5]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[4]

2 × Hairdresser (DELIRIUS). ^[4,5]

1 × Hotel (CHEZ PHIL). ^[4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie).

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[4,5]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 1,348 (2012) → 1,243 (2023): -7.8 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,385 (1990) → 1,243 (2023): -10.3 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 704, of which 11.8 % second homes and 7.4 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Mortain-Bocage): 1.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Mortain-Bocage): 1.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Mortain-Bocage): 1.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Juvigny les Vallées): 5.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Romagny Fontenay): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

An average of 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 43 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ST-HILAIRE-DU-H weather station, 12.9 km away at 95 m; the village itself is at 160 m. ^[12]

The village sits 65 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at BRECEY, 18 km away at 63 m, over 15 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 97 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,159 mm of rain a year, spread over 154 days — about 7.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at JUVIGNY-LE-T, 6 km away at 256 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50436/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE COG 2026
4. INSEE BPE 2025
5. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50436/2012
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50436/1990
8. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50436/logement/2023
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 50359
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 50260
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 50436
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024