Sideville

Manche · CA du Cotentin · INSEE 50575

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

Few services 38.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 64 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sideville (INSEE 50575) is in Manche (50), part of CA du Cotentin. Population 856 (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/50575-sideville

Vitality score

Vitality score 38.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 64 % of the 15,250 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.73

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (MAXICOFFEE SOLUTIONS OUEST). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

1 × Hairdresser (L'ATELIER D'EUGENIE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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)	1	MAXICOFFEE SOLUTIONS OUEST	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	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	L'ATELIER D'EUGENIE	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: 276 2023: 856 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 605 (2012) → 856 (2023): 41.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 477 (1990) → 856 (2023): 79.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 334, of which 2.7 % second homes and 0.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 0.8 km SBakery — 1.6 km EGP — 1.6 km EPharmacy — 3.8 km SW 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 (Martinvast): 1.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sideville): 0.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Martinvast): 1.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Virandeville): 3.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Sideville): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 0.5▸

Days at or below 0 °C 4.2▸

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 1 day a year at or above 30 °C and 4 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CHERBOURG-HOMET weather station, 8.3 km away at 19 m; the village itself is at 27 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at VALOGNES, 15.4 km away at 61 m, over 19 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,101 mm of rain a year, spread over 148 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at TONNEVILLE, 6.1 km away at 97 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 — 50575/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50575/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50575/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50575/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50294
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50575
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50643
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
Vauchelles-les-Quesnoy	80	263 km E	815	31.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Fauillet	47	594 km S	864	27.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 5 % · winter 55 % · humidity 50 %
Les Baux-Sainte-Croix	27	214 km E	871	23.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 38 % · humidity 100 %
Sort-en-Chalosse	40	660 km S	885	29.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 10 % · winter 61 % · humidity 0 %
Berchères-Saint-Germain	28	259 km SE	905	32.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 46 % · humidity 100 %
Souillé	72	213 km SE	797	32.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 27 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Souillé	72	213 km SE	797	32.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 27 % · humidity 100 %
Les Baux-Sainte-Croix	27	214 km E	871	23.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 38 % · humidity 100 %
Berchères-Saint-Germain	28	259 km SE	905	32.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 46 % · humidity 100 %
Vauchelles-les-Quesnoy	80	263 km E	815	31.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Fauillet	47	594 km S	864	27.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 5 % · winter 55 % · humidity 50 %
Sort-en-Chalosse	40	660 km S	885	29.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 10 % · winter 61 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Sideville'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
Lanmérin	22	154 km SW	575	38.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Teurthéville-Hague	50	3.2 km W	1,037	25.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Juaye-Mondaye	14	84 km SE	703	27.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Kernouës	29	223 km SW	665	26.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Frégant	29	224 km SW	874	39.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Plougar	29	213 km SW	789	30.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

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