Chaulieu

Manche · CA Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie · INSEE 50514

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

No daily shops 16.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 34 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chaulieu (INSEE 50514) is in Manche (50), part of CA Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie. Population 274 (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 16.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 34 % of the 17,590 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.49	10	4.86
Housing mix	0.6	5	3

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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

Type	Count	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	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [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: 394 2023: 274 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 297 (2012) → 274 (2023): -7.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 278 (1990) → 274 (2023): -1.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 170, of which 20 % second homes and 10 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 4.0 km WBakery — 4.3 km WFood shop — 4.4 km WPharmacy — 4.5 km WGP — 4.8 km W 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 (Sourdeval): 4.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sourdeval): 4.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Sourdeval): 4.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Sourdeval): 4.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Sourdeval): 4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 2.8▸

Days at or below 0 °C 38

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 38 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the COULOUVRAY-BOISBENATRE weather station, 18.5 km away at 268 m; the village itself is at 349 m. ^[9]

The village sits 81 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. ^[9]

An average of 1,221 mm of rain a year, spread over 157 days — about 7.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at ST-CLEMENT, 7.1 km away at 269 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

What property sold for

41 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 80,000 € — 491 € per m² of built surface. ^[10]

The median across Manche is 1,444 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[10]

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

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50514/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50514/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50514/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50514/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50582
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
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.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Édon	16	373 km S	272	15.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 36 % · winter 70 %
Sortosville-en-Beaumont	50	99 km NW	297	16.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 92 %
Cuves	50	18 km W	256	18.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 86 %
Saint-Aigny	36	272 km SE	276	18.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 28 % · winter 99 %
Sarcé	72	138 km SE	264	18.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 91 %
Suin	71	475 km SE	273	14.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 68 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Cuves	50	18 km W	256	18.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 86 %
Sortosville-en-Beaumont	50	99 km NW	297	16.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 92 %
Sarcé	72	138 km SE	264	18.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 91 %
Saint-Aigny	36	272 km SE	276	18.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 28 % · winter 99 %
Édon	16	373 km S	272	15.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 36 % · winter 70 %
Suin	71	475 km SE	273	14.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 68 %

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