Saint-Ovin

Manche · CA Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie · INSEE 50531

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

Few services 20.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 14 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Ovin (INSEE 50531) is in Manche (50), part of CA Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie. Population 762 (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/50531-saint-ovin

Vitality score

Vitality score 20.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 14 % of the 15,952 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.7	10	7.04
Housing mix	0.83	5	4.16

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 595 peak 2012: 774 2023: 762 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 774 (2012) → 762 (2023): -1.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 633 (1990) → 762 (2023): 20.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 383, of which 8.4 % second homes and 8.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.8 km WFood shop — 5.8 km WGP — 6.1 km WPharmacy — 7.0 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 (La Godefroy): 2.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Senier-sous-Avranches): 5.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Avranches): 6.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Avranches): 7 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Ovin): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 3.1▸

Days at or below 0 °C 53.6

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 54 days at or below 0 °C, over 14 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the BRECEY weather station, 8.4 km away at 63 m; the village itself is at 135 m. ^[12]

The village sits 72 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at BRECEY, 8.4 km away at 63 m, over 15 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 72 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,065 mm of rain a year, spread over 154 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ST OVIN, 0.9 km away at 155 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50531/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50531/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50531/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50531/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50205
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50554
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50025
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50531
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
Plasnes	27	147 km E	729	21.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Florentin	81	590 km SE	762	23	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 89 % · humidity 79 %
Villethierry	89	323 km E	789	21.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Aubin-de-Locquenay	72	105 km SE	761	20.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 72 % · winter 82 %
Sablonnières	77	335 km E	791	22	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 85 % · humidity 79 %
Torcieu	01	588 km SE	739	21.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Aubin-de-Locquenay	72	105 km SE	761	20.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 72 % · winter 82 %
Plasnes	27	147 km E	729	21.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Villethierry	89	323 km E	789	21.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Sablonnières	77	335 km E	791	22	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 85 % · humidity 79 %
Torcieu	01	588 km SE	739	21.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Florentin	81	590 km SE	762	23	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 89 % · humidity 79 %

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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-Ovin'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
L'Orée-d'Écouves	61	92 km E	709	21.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Landrethun-lès-Ardres	62	332 km NE	787	23.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Louvetot	76	174 km NE	783	23.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Le Plessier-Rozainvillers	80	301 km NE	753	22.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Hilaire-sur-Helpe	59	407 km NE	733	17.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Draillant	74	637 km E	872	24.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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