Saint-Jean-d'Elle

Manche · CA Saint-Lô Agglo · INSEE 50492

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

Partly served 49.3/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 65 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Jean-d'Elle (INSEE 50492) is in Manche (50), part of CA Saint-Lô Agglo. Population 2,516 (2023). ^[1]

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

Commune nouvelle formed on 2016-01-01 from 4 former communes: Notre-Dame-d'Elle (50380), Précorbin (50414), Rouxeville (50441), Vidouville (50635). ^[3]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 49.3/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 65 % of the 8,207 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	0.39	25	9.84
Social	0.39	20	7.77
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.59	10	5.85
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.78	10	7.85
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.71

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[4,5]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AURORE & ALEXANDRE). ^[4,5]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE JAMBONS LESOU). ^[4,5]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (VIVAL). ^[4,5]

3 × Restaurant (CHEZ YANNICK · ROTISSERIE DE JEFF). ^[4,5]

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

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (FRANCIS MAUGER, MÉDECIN · AURELIE LARUE, MÉDECIN · MAUD LE MASLE, MÉDECIN). ^[4]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE SAINT JEAN D ELLE). ^[4,5]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINT JEAN DES BAISANTS AP). ^[4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SAINT-JEAN-D'ELLE). ^[4]

2 × Hairdresser (LE SALON D'ALEX). ^[4,5]

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

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	AURORE & ALEXANDRE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE JAMBONS LESOU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	VIVAL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	3	CHEZ YANNICK · ROTISSERIE DE JEFF	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 7 [4,5]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE JEAN PREROUX	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	FRANCIS MAUGER, MÉDECIN · AURELIE LARUE, MÉDECIN · MAUD LE MASLE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [4]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE SAINT JEAN D ELLE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	SAINT JEAN DES BAISANTS AP	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SAINT-JEAN-D'ELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	2	LE SALON D'ALEX	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,5]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,581 2023: 2,516 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,394 (2012) → 2,516 (2023): 5.1 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,958 (1990) → 2,516 (2023): 28.5 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,157, of which 2.9 % second homes and 6.1 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Bakery — 0.6 km SE 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-Jean-d'Elle): 0.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Saint-Jean-d'Elle): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Jean-d'Elle): 0 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Jean-d'Elle): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Jean-d'Elle): 0.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

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 0.9

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. ^[10]

Measured at the ROUXEVILLE weather station, 2.6 km away at 158 m; the village itself is at 207 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at GIEVILLE, 8.9 km away at 134 m, over 10 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 73 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 1,030 mm of rain a year, spread over 154 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ST-JEAN-DES-B, 0.5 km away at 216 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50492/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50492/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50492/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50492/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50492
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
Val-Revermont	01	569 km SE	2,488	49.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 47 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Just-Chaleyssin	38	595 km SE	2,695	55.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 23 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Wingersheim les Quatre Bans	67	630 km E	2,342	53.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Lamonzie-Saint-Martin	24	484 km S	2,742	47.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 68 % · humidity 36 %
Joué-sur-Erdre	44	181 km S	2,797	52.2	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Crossac	44	207 km SW	2,974	48	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Joué-sur-Erdre	44	181 km S	2,797	52.2	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Crossac	44	207 km SW	2,974	48	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Lamonzie-Saint-Martin	24	484 km S	2,742	47.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 68 % · humidity 36 %
Val-Revermont	01	569 km SE	2,488	49.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 47 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Just-Chaleyssin	38	595 km SE	2,695	55.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 23 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Wingersheim les Quatre Bans	67	630 km E	2,342	53.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %

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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-Jean-d'Elle'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
Baulon	35	142 km SW	2,210	53.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Rédené	29	229 km SW	3,043	48	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Plumelec	56	186 km SW	2,754	68	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Val d'Oust	56	175 km SW	2,807	67.9	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Val d'Arry	14	30 km E	2,496	47.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-Fleurigné	35	83 km S	2,451	51.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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