Tanis

Manche · CA Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie · INSEE 50589

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

No daily shops 17.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 41 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Tanis (INSEE 50589) is in Manche (50), part of CA Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie. Population 268 (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/50589-tanis

Vitality score

Vitality score 17.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 41 % of the 17,504 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	0.56	10	5.59
Housing mix	0.66	5	3.32

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 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant (LE SILLON DE BRETAGNE). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

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, 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	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	1	LE SILLON DE BRETAGNE	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	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 324 2023: 268 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 318 (2012) → 268 (2023): -15.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 253 (1990) → 268 (2023): 5.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 155, of which 16.8 % second homes and 5.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 4.6 km NEBakery — 5.2 km WFood shop — 5.2 km SWGP — 6.2 km SWPharmacy — 6.5 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 (Beauvoir): 5.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Pontorson): 5.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Pontorson): 6.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Pontorson): 6.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Courtils): 4.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.5

Days at or below 0 °C 27.1

Muggy days a summer 1.8

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 27 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the PONTORSON weather station, 4.7 km away at 33 m; the village itself is at 23 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at PONTORSON, 4.7 km away at 33 m, over 28 summers. ^[11]

An average of 813 mm of rain a year, spread over 134 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at PONTORSON, 4.7 km away at 33 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 — 50589/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50589/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50589/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50589/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50042
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50410
INSEE BPE 2025 — 50146
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
Le Hanouard	76	198 km NE	271	17.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Sazilly	37	210 km SE	273	19.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Mouterhouse	57	653 km E	270	15.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 7 % · humidity 93 %
Le Villars	71	530 km SE	274	16.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 47 % · humidity 71 %
La Chapelle-du-Mont-du-Chat	73	638 km SE	269	23	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Aux-Aussat	32	588 km S	269	21.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 28 % · winter 89 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Le Hanouard	76	198 km NE	271	17.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Sazilly	37	210 km SE	273	19.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Le Villars	71	530 km SE	274	16.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 47 % · humidity 71 %
Aux-Aussat	32	588 km S	269	21.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 28 % · winter 89 %
La Chapelle-du-Mont-du-Chat	73	638 km SE	269	23	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Mouterhouse	57	653 km E	270	15.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 7 % · 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 Tanis'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
Le Hanouard	76	198 km NE	271	17.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Valsemé	14	133 km NE	261	22	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
La Neuville-lès-Bray	80	337 km NE	263	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pierre-le-Viger	76	215 km NE	255	17.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Loutehel	35	87 km SW	243	18.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Méloir-des-Bois	22	61 km W	270	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

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