Carelles

Mayenne · CC du Bocage Mayennais · INSEE 53047

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

Few services 20.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 55 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Carelles (INSEE 53047) is in Mayenne (53), part of CC du Bocage Mayennais. Population 246 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 20.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 55 % of the 17,149 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.19	10	1.87
Housing mix	0.6	5	2.98

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE ST JOSEPH	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	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	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: 538 2023: 246 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 271 (2012) → 246 (2023): -9.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 358 (1990) → 246 (2023): -31.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 188, of which 20.2 % second homes and 17 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 5.5 km SEBakery — 6.2 km WFood shop — 6.2 km WPharmacy — 6.3 km W 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 (Montaudin): 6.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Montaudin): 6.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Denis-de-Gastines): 5.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Montaudin): 6.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Carelles): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.1

Days at or below 0 °C 35.6

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 36 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ST-MARS/LA-FUTA weather station, 9.8 km away at 208 m; the village itself is at 217 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at ERNEE, 10.5 km away at 168 m, over 29 summers. ^[11]

An average of 931 mm of rain a year, spread over 134 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ERNEE_, 8.2 km away at 120 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 — 53047/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53047/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53047/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53047/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53154
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53211
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53047
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
Saint-Étienne-aux-Clos	19	404 km SE	246	26.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 32 % · humidity 93 %
Brassac	82	485 km S	254	26.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %
Suze	26	611 km SE	245	29.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Dracy	89	317 km E	236	25	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Urepel	64	592 km S	271	23.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 56 % · winter 92 %
Vitrac-sur-Montane	19	398 km SE	222	26	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Dracy	89	317 km E	236	25	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Vitrac-sur-Montane	19	398 km SE	222	26	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Étienne-aux-Clos	19	404 km SE	246	26.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 32 % · humidity 93 %
Brassac	82	485 km S	254	26.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %
Urepel	64	592 km S	271	23.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 56 % · winter 92 %
Suze	26	611 km SE	245	29.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 81 % · 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 Carelles'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
Mesnil-Mauger	76	228 km NE	243	27.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Brignac	56	114 km W	200	25.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Berthevin-la-Tannière	53	3.8 km NW	308	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Bomer	28	130 km E	194	29.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Céronne-lès-Mortagne	61	108 km E	251	16.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Le Brévedent	14	129 km NE	201	22.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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