Le Vast

Identity

Le Vast (INSEE 50619) is in Manche (50), part of CA du Cotentin. Population 321 (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/50619-le-vast

Vitality score

Vitality score 20.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 43 % of the 17,933 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.

Services

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

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA BOULANGERIE DU VAST · LA BRIOCHE DU VAST). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LE VAST AP). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (MANUELLA COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette).

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 313 (2012) → 321 (2023): 2.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 294 (1990) → 321 (2023): 9.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 223, of which 25.6 % second homes and 9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Le Vast): 0.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Valcanville): 5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Quettehou): 5.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Quettehou): 5.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Teurthéville-Bocage): 4.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

An average of 1 day a year at or above 30 °C and 11 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the BARFLEUR weather station, 7.6 km away at 13 m; the village itself is at 44 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at GONNEVILLE, 8.2 km away at 134 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 90 m above 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 864 mm of rain a year, spread over 132 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at BARFLEUR, 7.6 km away at 13 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

What property sold for

37 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 145,000 € — 1,333 € per m² of built surface. ^[13]

The median across Manche is 1,444 € per m², so this commune sits about level with it. ^[13]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50619/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50619/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50619/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 50619/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 50619
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 50613
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 50417
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 50593
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
13. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025