Alexain

Mayenne · CC Mayenne Communauté · INSEE 53002

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

Few services 39.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 78 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Alexain (INSEE 53002) is in Mayenne (53), part of CC Mayenne Communauté. Population 610 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 39.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 78 % of the 17,004 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.96	10	9.59
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.46

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LES PATISSERIES DE SOLENE). ^[3]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE ALEXAIN). ^[3]

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

1 × Hairdresser (L'M COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LES PATISSERIES DE SOLENE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE ALEXAIN	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	1	ALEXAIN AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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'M COIFFURE	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: 468 2023: 610 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 609 (2012) → 610 (2023): 0.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 418 (1990) → 610 (2023): 45.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 242, of which 5.4 % second homes and 8.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 6.0 km SGP — 6.2 km SPharmacy — 6.2 km S 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 (Alexain): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Andouillé): 6 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

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

Pharmacy (Andouillé): 6.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Alexain): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 11

Days at or below 0 °C 53.9

Muggy days a summer 1.2

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 11 days a year at or above 30 °C and 54 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CHAILLAND weather station, 10.5 km away at 110 m; the village itself is at 125 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ERNEE, 16.3 km away at 168 m, over 29 summers. ^[10]

An average of 816 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at SACE, 8.3 km away at 113 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

What property sold for

35 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 110,000 € — 1,168 € per m² of built surface. ^[11]

The median across Mayenne is 1,254 € per m², so this commune sits about level with it. ^[11]

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

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53002/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53002/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53002/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53002/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53002
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53005
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Moëze	17	259 km S	600	39.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 57 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Amour-Bellevue	71	471 km SE	609	39.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Sommepy-Tahure	51	407 km E	663	37.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 91 %
Fontaine	90	582 km E	605	42	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Albefeuille-Lagarde	82	489 km S	582	37.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 77 % · humidity 64 %
Pujo	65	547 km S	671	37.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 92 % · humidity 36 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Moëze	17	259 km S	600	39.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 57 % · humidity 50 %
Sommepy-Tahure	51	407 km E	663	37.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 91 %
Saint-Amour-Bellevue	71	471 km SE	609	39.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Albefeuille-Lagarde	82	489 km S	582	37.3	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 77 % · humidity 64 %
Pujo	65	547 km S	671	37.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 92 % · humidity 36 %
Fontaine	90	582 km E	605	42	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Alexain'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
Launois-sur-Vence	08	419 km NE	659	36.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Écouviez	55	477 km E	543	37	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Cons-la-Grandville	54	493 km E	522	32.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Hunspach	67	645 km E	628	42.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Villeneuve-les-Bordes	77	283 km E	610	32.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Marchélepot-Misery	80	319 km NE	575	28.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

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