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Saint-Sauveur-la-Pommeraye

Manche · CC de Granville, Terre et Mer · INSEE 50549

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

Few services 31/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 69 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Sauveur-la-Pommeraye (INSEE 50549) is in Manche (50), part of CC de Granville, Terre et Mer. Population 397 (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/50549-saint-sauveur-la-pommeraye

Vitality score

Vitality score 31/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 69 % of the 18,022 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
Social0.632012.64
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.96109.6
Housing mix0.8354.14

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 1 of 1
Cafés and bars 1 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 (ROTISSERIE BEAUHAIRE). [3,4]

1 × Café / bar. [4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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]
Restaurant1ROTISSERIE BEAUHAIREINSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar1INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 306 2023: 397 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 314 (2012) → 397 (2023): 26.4 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 272 (1990) → 397 (2023): 46 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 186, of which 8.6 % second homes and 9.1 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 2.6 km SW (Saint-Jean-des-Champs)Primary school — 2.6 km SW (Saint-Jean-des-Champs)GP — 2.7 km SW (Saint-Jean-des-Champs)Food shop — 4.0 km NW (Hudimesnil)Pharmacy — 6.7 km SE (La Haye-Pesnel)
Bakery — 2.6 km SWPrimary school — 2.6 km SWGP — 2.7 km SWFood shop — 4.0 km NWPharmacy — 6.7 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-des-Champs): 2.6 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Hudimesnil): 4 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Saint-Jean-des-Champs): 2.7 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (La Haye-Pesnel): 6.7 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Saint-Jean-des-Champs): 2.6 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

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 3 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the LONGUEVILLE weather station, 9.6 km away at 5 m; the village itself is at 102 m. [11]

The village sits 97 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. [11]

An average of 1,131 mm of rain a year, spread over 153 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at EQUILLY, 4.3 km away at 101 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50549/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50549/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50549/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50549/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 50493
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 50252
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 50237
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Bonnevaux25613 km E41034.1Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 0 %
Giverville27152 km E38133.6Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 97 %
Saint-Péran3599 km SW40734.6Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 95 %
Siewiller67632 km E38026.7Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 80 %
Châtenay38639 km SE43331.6Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 38 % · winter 55 %
Hermeville76150 km NE36228.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Péran3599 km SW40734.6Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 95 %
Hermeville76150 km NE36228.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 93 %
Giverville27152 km E38133.6Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 97 %
Bonnevaux25613 km E41034.1Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 0 %
Siewiller67632 km E38026.7Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 80 %
Châtenay38639 km SE43331.6Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 38 % · winter 55 %

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