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Saint-Brice-de-Landelles

Manche · CA Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie · INSEE 50452

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 10.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 1 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Brice-de-Landelles (INSEE 50452) is in Manche (50), part of CA Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie. Population 652 (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/50452-saint-brice-de-landelles

Vitality score

Vitality score 10.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 1 % of the 16,750 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.48104.79
Housing mix0.8154.03

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 0 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”.

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

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]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 724 2023: 652 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 681 (2012) → 652 (2023): -4.3 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 666 (1990) → 652 (2023): -2.1 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 383, of which 9.7 % second homes and 11 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmGP — 1.8 km NW (Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët)Primary school — 1.9 km NW (Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët)Pharmacy — 2.0 km NW (Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët)Food shop — 2.3 km NW (Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët)Bakery — 5.5 km S (Louvigné-du-Désert)
GP — 1.8 km NWPrimary school — 1.9 km NWPharmacy — 2.0 km NWFood shop — 2.3 km NWBakery — 5.5 km S 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 (Louvigné-du-Désert): 5.5 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët): 2.3 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët): 1.8 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët): 2 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët): 1.9 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 43 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the ST-HILAIRE-DU-H weather station, 5.3 km away at 95 m; the village itself is at 163 m. [10]

The village sits 68 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]

An average of 923 mm of rain a year, spread over 140 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at ST-HILAIRE-DU-H, 5.3 km away at 95 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

What property sold for

63 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 110,000 € — 710 € per m² of built surface. [11]

The median across Manche is 1,444 € per m², so this commune sits below it. [11]

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 — 50452/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50452/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50452/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50452/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 35162
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 50484
  10. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
  11. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Bellegarde-Marsal81578 km SE69013.4No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 41 % · winter 93 %
Méautis5084 km N64812.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 93 %
Samognat01566 km SE63017No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 45 %
Rigarda66716 km SE69816.2No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 33 % · winter 86 %
Saint-Paul6145 km NE63112.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 77 %
Saint-André-d'Huiriat01524 km SE66717.2No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 23 % · winter 92 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Paul6145 km NE63112.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 77 %
Méautis5084 km N64812.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 93 %
Saint-André-d'Huiriat01524 km SE66717.2No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 23 % · winter 92 %
Samognat01566 km SE63017No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 45 %
Bellegarde-Marsal81578 km SE69013.4No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 41 % · winter 93 %
Rigarda66716 km SE69816.2No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 33 % · winter 86 %

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