Saint-Jacques-de-Néhou

Manche · CA du Cotentin · INSEE 50486

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

Few services 29.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 49 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Jacques-de-Néhou (INSEE 50486) is in Manche (50), part of CA du Cotentin. Population 625 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 29.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 49 % of the 16,866 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.99	10	9.92
Housing mix	0.72	5	3.6

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), 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)	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	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: 520 2023: 625 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 567 (2012) → 625 (2023): 10.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 419 (1990) → 625 (2023): 49.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 314, of which 14 % second homes and 7.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 5.9 km NPharmacy — 6.0 km NGP — 6.4 km N 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 (Saint-Jacques-de-Néhou): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bricquebec-en-Cotentin): 5.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Bricquebec-en-Cotentin): 6.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Bricquebec-en-Cotentin): 6 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Jacques-de-Néhou): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 2.7▸

Days at or below 0 °C 32.1

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 3 days a year at or above 30 °C and 32 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the BRICQUEBEC weather station, 5.6 km away at 38 m; the village itself is at 79 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at VALOGNES, 13.6 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, 5.6 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 — 50486/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50486/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50486/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50486/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50486
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50082
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
Glénic	23	443 km SE	625	18.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 51 % · humidity 100 %
Chabrac	16	425 km SE	603	20.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Clément-Rancoudray	50	98 km SE	555	13.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 72 %
Trébons-sur-la-Grasse	31	711 km S	505	31.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 13 % · winter 92 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Paul-d'Espis	82	618 km S	559	22.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 93 % · humidity 57 %
Vitrac-Saint-Vincent	16	433 km S	489	27.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 88 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Clément-Rancoudray	50	98 km SE	555	13.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 72 %
Chabrac	16	425 km SE	603	20.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Vitrac-Saint-Vincent	16	433 km S	489	27.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 88 % · humidity 71 %
Glénic	23	443 km SE	625	18.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 51 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Paul-d'Espis	82	618 km S	559	22.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 93 % · humidity 57 %
Trébons-sur-la-Grasse	31	711 km S	505	31.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 13 % · winter 92 % · humidity 50 %

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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-Jacques-de-Néhou'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
Preures	62	281 km NE	642	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Marchésieux	50	35 km SE	665	26.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Aubin-de-Terregatte	50	96 km S	645	28.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Le Grippon	50	73 km S	391	16.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Cartigny-l'Épinay	14	48 km SE	300	17.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Rimou	35	114 km S	357	10.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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