Saint-André-de-l'Épine

Manche · CA Saint-Lô Agglo · INSEE 50446

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

Partly served 40.8/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 82 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-André-de-l'Épine (INSEE 50446) is in Manche (50), part of CA Saint-Lô Agglo. Population 555 (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 40.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 82 % of the 17,496 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	25	0
Social	0.79	20	15.82
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.78	10	7.82
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.73

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (LES GOURMETS · L'AUBEPINE · A L'ESSENTIEL). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (AU P'TIT BON HEURE). ^[4]

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

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	3	LES GOURMETS · L'AUBEPINE · A L'ESSENTIEL	INSEE SIRENE 3 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	AU P'TIT BON HEURE	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 307 peak 2012: 560 2023: 555 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 560 (2012) → 555 (2023): -0.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 433 (1990) → 555 (2023): 28.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 255, of which 2.7 % second homes and 4.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 4.2 km SWBakery — 4.4 km WGP — 4.9 km SWPharmacy — 5.1 km SW 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 (Le Mesnil-Rouxelin): 4.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Lô): 4.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Lô): 4.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Lô): 5.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-André-de-l'Épine): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 2.8▸

Days at or below 0 °C 27.9

Muggy days a summer 1.1

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 28 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ROUXEVILLE weather station, 7.1 km away at 158 m; the village itself is at 149 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at GIEVILLE, 14.3 km away at 134 m, over 10 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,030 mm of rain a year, spread over 154 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ST-JEAN-DES-B, 5.8 km away at 216 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50446/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50446/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50446/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50446/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50321
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50502
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50446
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-Jean-aux-Amognes	58	400 km SE	547	39	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 57 % · humidity 93 %
Auchy-au-Bois	62	289 km NE	548	41.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Forest-en-Cambrésis	59	348 km E	549	37.3	Few services	no figures
Zuytpeene	59	307 km NE	557	39.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Paillart	60	249 km E	576	38.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Aspères	30	707 km SE	563	39.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 85 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Paillart	60	249 km E	576	38.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Auchy-au-Bois	62	289 km NE	548	41.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Zuytpeene	59	307 km NE	557	39.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Forest-en-Cambrésis	59	348 km E	549	37.3	Few services	no figures
Saint-Jean-aux-Amognes	58	400 km SE	547	39	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 57 % · humidity 93 %
Aspères	30	707 km SE	563	39.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 85 % · 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 Saint-André-de-l'Épine'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
Auchy-au-Bois	62	289 km NE	548	41.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Zuytpeene	59	307 km NE	557	39.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Bovel	35	150 km SW	618	39.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
West-Cappel	59	321 km NE	644	37.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Miannay	80	224 km NE	604	34.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Belmesnil	76	165 km NE	440	34.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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