Saussey

Manche · CC Coutances Mer et Bocage · INSEE 50568

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

No daily shops 16.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 18 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saussey (INSEE 50568) is in Manche (50), part of CC Coutances Mer et Bocage. Population 463 (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/50568-saussey

Vitality score

Vitality score 16.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 18 % of the 17,923 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	0.41	10	4.13
Housing mix	0.77	5	3.85

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

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

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE	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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 375 peak 1990: 507 2023: 463 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 494 (2012) → 463 (2023): -6.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 507 (1990) → 463 (2023): -8.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 260, of which 11.5 % second homes and 4.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.2 km SWBakery — 3.4 km NPharmacy — 3.5 km NGP — 4.1 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 (Coutances): 3.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Quettreville-sur-Sienne): 3.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Coutances): 4.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Coutances): 3.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saussey): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 3.9▸

Days at or below 0 °C 26

Muggy days a summer 1.5

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 4 days a year at or above 30 °C and 26 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the COUTANCES weather station, 4.3 km away at 80 m; the village itself is at 43 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CERISY LA SALLE, 10.3 km away at 134 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 91 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 1,089 mm of rain a year, spread over 153 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at COUTANCES, 4.3 km away at 80 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50568/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50568/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50568/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50568/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50147
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50419
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50568
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
Saint-Symphorien	27	142 km E	466	23.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Champagnat	71	582 km SE	460	16.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 51 % · humidity 93 %
Héauville	50	69 km N	456	21.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Selles	27	145 km E	480	21.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Silly-Tillard	60	264 km E	450	19.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Beauval-en-Caux	76	195 km NE	464	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Héauville	50	69 km N	456	21.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Symphorien	27	142 km E	466	23.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Selles	27	145 km E	480	21.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Beauval-en-Caux	76	195 km NE	464	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Silly-Tillard	60	264 km E	450	19.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Champagnat	71	582 km SE	460	16.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 51 % · 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 Saussey'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
Beauval-en-Caux	76	195 km NE	464	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Le Torp-Mesnil	76	187 km NE	451	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Vismes	80	251 km NE	474	24.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Trémaouézan	29	214 km W	483	22	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Étalleville	76	182 km NE	431	20.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Les Préaux	27	143 km E	396	17.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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