Champéon

Mayenne · CC Mayenne Communauté · INSEE 53051

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

Few services 37.9/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 73 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Champéon (INSEE 53051) is in Mayenne (53), part of CC Mayenne Communauté. Population 636 (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 37.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 73 % of the 16,802 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	0.48	20	9.5
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.78	10	7.82
Housing mix	0.77	5	3.87

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

3 × Restaurant (LE RELAIS SAINT MEDARD). ^[4,3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SACRE-COEUR). ^[4]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CYRIL LEFAY, MÉDECIN). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (CHAMPEON AP). ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser (UN TEMPS POUR SOI). ^[4,3]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	3	LE RELAIS SAINT MEDARD	INSEE SIRENE 3 / INSEE BPE 0 [4,3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SACRE-COEUR	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	CYRIL LEFAY, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	CHAMPEON AP	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	1	UN TEMPS POUR SOI	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 615 2023: 636 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 587 (2012) → 636 (2023): 8.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 496 (1990) → 636 (2023): 28.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 353, of which 11.3 % second homes and 14.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school, GP Food shop — 6.5 km NWBakery — 6.9 km SPharmacy — 8.0 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 (Marcillé-la-Ville): 6.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Chantrigné): 6.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Champéon): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Lassay-les-Châteaux): 8 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 9

Days at or below 0 °C 44

Muggy days a summer 0.9

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 44 days at or below 0 °C, over 12 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the MARCILLE-LA-VIL weather station, 3.8 km away at 260 m; the village itself is at 187 m. ^[12]

The village sits 73 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at LE HORPS, 7.1 km away at 268 m, over 21 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 81 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 982 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at MARCILLE-LA-VIL, 3.8 km away at 260 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53051/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53051/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53051/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53051/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53144
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53055
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53051
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53127
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
Terres de Druance	14	62 km N	906	32.2	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Condéon	16	330 km S	606	28.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %
Mainsat	23	338 km SE	540	26.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Angoisse	24	350 km S	598	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Montesquieu	82	481 km S	748	31.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 10 % · winter 86 % · humidity 79 %
Gesvres	53	28 km E	539	28.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 92 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Gesvres	53	28 km E	539	28.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 92 %
Terres de Druance	14	62 km N	906	32.2	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Condéon	16	330 km S	606	28.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %
Mainsat	23	338 km SE	540	26.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Angoisse	24	350 km S	598	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Montesquieu	82	481 km S	748	31.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 10 % · winter 86 % · 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 Champéon'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
Angoisse	24	350 km S	598	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Coulouvray-Boisbenâtre	50	64 km NW	531	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
La Roche-l'Abeille	87	336 km SE	590	33.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Chanteix	19	377 km SE	596	21.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Priest-la-Feuille	23	286 km SE	718	33.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Blandouet-Saint Jean	53	38 km S	554	24.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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