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Some 1,302 people live in this town, in Manche, Normandy.
Housing is within reach: at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 4.1 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Pupils here do better than most: brevet results 4 points above the expected rate. The weak point is jobs & income (C): 1.1 jobs per working resident; 10.7% unemployment. Homes sell for a median €1,572/m².
Figures: prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · employment, INSEE census 2023. La Haye-Pesnel has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things La Haye-Pesnel does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares La Haye-Pesnel with other French towns of 2,500 or more, ordered by how far its rank is from the middle. American and UK towns are graded separately.
La Haye-Pesnel has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in La Haye-Pesnel as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Château de Grainville, in Granville, 8.2 mi away.
13% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in La Haye-Pesnel.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The estimated advertised rent is €9.46/m² a month, about level with Manche’s towns (€9.90/m²) and below compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Houses accounted for 96% of sales, apartments for the rest. La Haye-Pesnel recorded 54 home sales from July 2023 to June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €1,572/m² | 52 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Near La Haye-Pesnel, 92.0% of collège pupils passed the brevet, above both Manche’s towns (90.0%) and compared French towns (87.5%). For the general bac, the closest lycée is 7.8 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Louis BeuveNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 61 | 92%+4 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Degrees are held by 16% of adults, lower than both Manche’s towns (22%) and compared French towns (30%). The under-15s are 13% of the population here. The share aged 15 to 24 is 9.7%.
54% women, 46% men
About 86 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Manche 52.0%, France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| La Haye-Pesnel | Manche median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 13% | 13% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.7% | 9.3% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 22% | 20% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 23% | 26% | 26% |
| 65+ | 33% | 29% | 22% |
| No diploma | 30% | 24% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 30% | 29% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 16% | 22% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Manche median and France median: the median of compared communes
10.7% of the labour force were unemployed, above Manche’s towns (8.8%) and compared French towns (10.1%) alike. At the census, 5.2% of working residents in La Haye-Pesnel didn’t travel to work at all. Walking, cycling and public transport carried nearly one in ten commuters at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
There are 4 general practitioners in La Haye-Pesnel. Its care home for older people (62 places) counts its residents as La Haye-Pesnel’s; allowing for it, deaths were 14% below expected. France’s death rates at each age would predict 293 deaths here from 2016 to 2025; there were 314, 7% more. The nearest emergency department to La Haye-Pesnel is Hopitaux du Sud Manche site Avranches, 7.5 mi away.
Source: INSEE, deaths by commune of residence 2016–2025 and censuses; Eurostat, death rates by age (© European Union); INSEE, BPE 2025; DREES, APL 2024; INSEE, life expectancy by département 2025 · Licence Ouverte · The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to B+.
Nothing in La Haye-Pesnel is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
One notable person was born in La Haye-Pesnel.
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Haye-Pesnel | 1,302 | — | — | A | — | B |
| Sartilly-Baie-Bocage | 2,778 | 4.4 | — | C+ | — | A− |
| Saint-Pair-sur-Mer | 4,507 | 7.6 | A− | C− | A− | B+ |
| Villedieu-les-Poêles-Rouffigny | 3,903 | 7.9 | B− | A− | B | C− |
| Avranches | 10,143 | 8.3 | B | C+ | D | B+ |
| Granville | 12,510 | 9 | C | C− | D | B |
| Donville-les-Bains | 3,146 | 9 | C+ | D | B− | B+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
La Haye-Pesnel has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.9 recorded violent incidents and 10.2 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
They grade A, better than 89% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Incomes are lower than in most compared French towns too, so La Haye-Pesnel grades A for cost of living.
Commune in Manche, Normandy
La Haye-Pesnel is a commune of 1,302 people in the Communauté de communes de Granville, Terre et Mer. TownRatings compares communes, France’s local unit: each has its own mayor and its own statistics. Its area takes in the town and the countryside around it.
Built from INSEE’s 2026 official geography (COG) and IGN Admin Express boundaries
Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, employment, commuting) · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (income per consumption unit, poverty) · DGFiP, DVF property sales, July 2023 to June 2026 · Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025 · SSMSI, recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Ministry of Education (DEPP), brevet and bac results and value-added indicators, 2025 · INSEE, deaths by commune of residence 2016–2025 and censuses 2012–2023; Eurostat, death rates by age (© European Union); INSEE, BPE 2025 (care homes, emergency and maternity units, GPs, pharmacies); DREES, APL 2024; INSEE, life expectancy by département 2025 (provisional) · INSEE, BPE 2025 and Filosofi 200 m grid (walking distances) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking French towns against each other only, updated November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.