Cosmes

Mayenne · CC du Pays de Craon · INSEE 53075

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

Few services 20.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 48 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cosmes (INSEE 53075) is in Mayenne (53), part of CC du Pays de Craon. Population 302 (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 20.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 48 % of the 17,879 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	5	0
Population trend	0.68	10	6.75
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.7

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

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE DE LA FONTAINE). ^[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, 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	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 DE LA FONTAINE	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: 420 2023: 302 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 300 (2012) → 302 (2023): 0.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 257 (1990) → 302 (2023): 17.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 135, of which 3 % second homes and 5.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.2 km NWGP — 3.4 km NWPharmacy — 3.4 km NWBakery — 3.6 km NW 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 (Cossé-le-Vivien): 3.6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Cossé-le-Vivien): 3.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Cossé-le-Vivien): 3.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Cossé-le-Vivien): 3.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Cosmes): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 13.7

Days at or below 0 °C 41.3

Muggy days a summer 1.6

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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 41 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the COSSE-LE-VIVIEN weather station, 6 km away at 95 m; the village itself is at 78 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at LAVAL-ETRONNIER, 15.9 km away at 100 m, over 14 summers. ^[10]

An average of 806 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at COSSE-LE-VIVIEN, 6 km away at 95 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53075/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53075/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53075/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53075/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53077
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53075
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
Trie-la-Ville	60	251 km NE	303	16.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Coisevaux	70	568 km E	298	23.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 69 %
Saint-Germain-sous-Cailly	76	240 km NE	305	24.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 96 %
Mory	62	369 km NE	299	18.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Le Plessis-Placy	77	312 km NE	305	23.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Esquay-sur-Seulles	14	152 km N	299	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Esquay-sur-Seulles	14	152 km N	299	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Germain-sous-Cailly	76	240 km NE	305	24.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 96 %
Trie-la-Ville	60	251 km NE	303	16.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Le Plessis-Placy	77	312 km NE	305	23.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Mory	62	369 km NE	299	18.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Coisevaux	70	568 km E	298	23.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 69 %

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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 Cosmes'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
Trie-la-Ville	60	251 km NE	303	16.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Charmentray	77	293 km NE	291	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Paars	02	365 km NE	309	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Le Buret	53	28 km E	315	24.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Bussy	60	341 km NE	305	23.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Pissy	80	308 km NE	284	18.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %

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