Bourgon

Mayenne · CA Laval Agglomération · INSEE 53040

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

Few services 29.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 49 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bourgon (INSEE 53040) is in Mayenne (53), part of CA Laval Agglomération. Population 616 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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/53040-bourgon

Vitality score

Vitality score 29.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 49 % of the 16,922 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.56	10	5.58
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.78

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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 food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

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

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

1 × Library (LAVAL AGGLO BIBLIOTHÈQUE BOURGON). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE	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	BOURGON AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	LAVAL AGGLO BIBLIOTHÈQUE BOURGON	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 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: 722 2023: 616 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 634 (2012) → 616 (2023): -2.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 582 (1990) → 616 (2023): 5.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 313, of which 2.2 % second homes and 12.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 3.8 km WBakery — 4.3 km WFood shop — 6.6 km SEPharmacy — 6.7 km SE 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 (Saint-M'Hervé): 4.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Pierre-la-Cour): 6.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-M'Hervé): 3.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Pierre-la-Cour): 6.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Bourgon): 0.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8.7

Days at or below 0 °C 44.8

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 45 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LAUNAY-VILLIERS weather station, 5.4 km away at 153 m; the village itself is at 128 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at ERNEE, 16.2 km away at 168 m, over 29 summers. ^[11]

An average of 894 mm of rain a year, spread over 136 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LA CROIXILLE, 4.1 km away at 171 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 — 53040/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53040/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53040/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53040/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 35300
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53247
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53040
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
Boucé	03	401 km SE	507	27.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 62 % · humidity 86 %
Le Fay	71	509 km E	616	28.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 70 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Bonnet-Briance	87	335 km SE	531	28.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Rouez	72	71 km E	804	30.2	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Champnétery	87	328 km SE	512	27.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Cressanges	03	372 km SE	644	34.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Rouez	72	71 km E	804	30.2	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Champnétery	87	328 km SE	512	27.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Bonnet-Briance	87	335 km SE	531	28.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Cressanges	03	372 km SE	644	34.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Boucé	03	401 km SE	507	27.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 62 % · humidity 86 %
Le Fay	71	509 km E	616	28.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 70 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Bourgon'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
Cressanges	03	372 km SE	644	34.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Ségrie	72	81 km E	592	37	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Victor-de-Buthon	28	153 km E	510	28.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Naillat	23	294 km SE	687	25.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Noth	23	294 km SE	498	35.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Mailly-Champagne	51	396 km E	617	27.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

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