Belgeard

Mayenne · CC Mayenne Communauté · INSEE 53028

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

Few services 26.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 44 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Belgeard (INSEE 53028) is in Mayenne (53), part of CC Mayenne Communauté. Population 555 (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/53028-belgeard

Vitality score

Vitality score 26.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 44 % of the 17,496 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.51

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BELGEARD / CC MAYENNE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE BELGARD	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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BELGEARD / CC MAYENNE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 301 peak 2017: 616 2023: 555 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 565 (2012) → 555 (2023): -1.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 332 (1990) → 555 (2023): 67.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 246, of which 4.9 % second homes and 5.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 3.8 km EBakery — 4.0 km EFood shop — 4.8 km NPharmacy — 5.1 km N 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 (Jublains): 4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Aron): 4.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Jublains): 3.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Aron): 5.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Belgeard): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 10.1

Days at or below 0 °C 50.4

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 10 days a year at or above 30 °C and 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MONTOURTIER_SAPC weather station, 4.9 km away at 107 m; the village itself is at 146 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at LE HORPS, 18.7 km away at 268 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 122 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 787 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MONTOURTIER_SAPC, 4.9 km away at 107 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 — 53028/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53028/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53028/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53028/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53122
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53008
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53028
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
Vaux-sur-Vienne	86	171 km SE	538	20.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Helleville	50	171 km NW	567	26.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 77 %
Saint-Maurice-en-Rivière	71	446 km E	532	23.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Andelu	78	188 km NE	550	26.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Eanne	79	209 km S	580	19.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Fontaine-Henry	14	114 km N	528	22.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Fontaine-Henry	14	114 km N	528	22.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Helleville	50	171 km NW	567	26.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 77 %
Vaux-sur-Vienne	86	171 km SE	538	20.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Andelu	78	188 km NE	550	26.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Eanne	79	209 km S	580	19.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Maurice-en-Rivière	71	446 km E	532	23.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 84 % · 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 Belgeard'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
Marigné-Peuton	53	47 km SW	543	22.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
La Vieux-Rue	76	191 km NE	572	26.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Hélène	71	424 km E	511	26.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Monchy-au-Bois	62	316 km NE	545	23.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Lalande-en-Son	60	212 km NE	606	21.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martinien	03	312 km SE	597	22.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

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