Cossé-le-Vivien

Mayenne · CC du Pays de Craon · INSEE 53077

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

Partly served 43.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 32 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cossé-le-Vivien (INSEE 53077) is in Mayenne (53), part of CC du Pays de Craon. Population 3,174 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/53077-cosse-le-vivien

Vitality score

Vitality score 43.2/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 32 % of the 6,800 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	0.28	25	6.97
Social	0.55	20	11.07
Education	0.22	10	2.21
Health	0.43	10	4.27
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	0.63	10	6.31
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.8

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 3 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 of 3

Lodging 1 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (PAINS ET DES LYS · O 2 PASSIONS). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (SARL RAIMBAULT). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LA CAVE COSSEENNE). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (SALIDIS). ^[3,4]

5 × Restaurant (CHEZ TONTON · LA GALIPETTE · LE CARRE D'AS). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (L'HYNOU-BLIABLE). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE JEAN JAURES). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE JEAN JAURES). ^[3]

2 × Collège (COLLEGE L ORIETTE · COLLEGE PRIVE ST JOSEPH). ^[3]

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (FLORIE ALGRAIN, MÉDECIN · REBECCA NAUD, MÉDECIN · CHRISTIAN PASSOT, MÉDECIN · DAVID ROUILLÉ-BERNAUD, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE L HOTEL DE VILLE). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (CC CRAON - MÉDIATHÈQUE-LUDOTHÈQUE DE COSSÉ-LE-VIVIEN). ^[3]

2 × Gym / sports hall (BEAUSOLEIL · COMPLEXE SPORTIF). ^[3]

3 × Bank (CAISSE REG CREDIT AGRI MUTUEL ANJOU MAIN · CAISSE FEDERALE DU CREDIT MUTUEL DE MAINE ANJOU ET BASSE NORMANDIE · CAISSE DE CREDIT MUTUEL COSSE LE VIVIEN). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (CREA'STYLE · CARPE DIEM CHEZ HELENE). ^[3,4]

2 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

1 × Hotel (HÔTEL LA GRANGE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Primary school (élémentaire).

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	PAINS ET DES LYS · O 2 PASSIONS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	SARL RAIMBAULT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	LA CAVE COSSEENNE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	SALIDIS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	5	CHEZ TONTON · LA GALIPETTE · LE CARRE D'AS	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	L'HYNOU-BLIABLE	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE JEAN JAURES	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE JEAN JAURES	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	2	COLLEGE L ORIETTE · COLLEGE PRIVE ST JOSEPH	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	4	FLORIE ALGRAIN, MÉDECIN · REBECCA NAUD, MÉDECIN · CHRISTIAN PASSOT, MÉDECIN · DAVID ROUILLÉ-BERNAUD, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE L HOTEL DE VILLE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	CC CRAON - MÉDIATHÈQUE-LUDOTHÈQUE DE COSSÉ-LE-VIVIEN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	2	BEAUSOLEIL · COMPLEXE SPORTIF	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	3	CAISSE REG CREDIT AGRI MUTUEL ANJOU MAIN · CAISSE FEDERALE DU CREDIT MUTUEL DE MAINE ANJOU ET BASSE NORMANDIE · CAISSE DE CREDIT MUTUEL COSSE LE VIVIEN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Hairdresser	3	CREA'STYLE · CARPE DIEM CHEZ HELENE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Fuel station	2	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	1	HÔTEL LA GRANGE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

A market is recorded here, but no source gives the day. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 2,443 2023: 3,174 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,987 (2012) → 3,174 (2023): 6.3 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 2,806 (1990) → 3,174 (2023): 13.1 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,501, of which 2 % second homes and 7.2 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Cossé-le-Vivien): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Cossé-le-Vivien): 0.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Cossé-le-Vivien): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Cossé-le-Vivien): 0.4 km to the south-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, 2.4 km away at 95 m; the village itself is at 82 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at LAVAL-ETRONNIER, 15.6 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, 2.4 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 — 53077/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2025-12— https://data.datatourisme.fr/49/801b6a56-4d6b-3893-a87e-48f426097e24— “MARCHÉ DE COSSÉ-LE-VIVIEN”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53077/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53077/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53077/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53077
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
Seltz	67	674 km E	3,204	44.3	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Lapalisse	03	393 km SE	3,138	50.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 81 %
Gasny	27	225 km NE	3,062	40.1	Partly served	no figures
Bavay	59	431 km NE	3,249	55	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Le Grand-Lemps	38	560 km SE	3,083	55.4	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 53 % · humidity 86 %
Castillon-la-Bataille	33	350 km S	3,344	56.4	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 86 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Gasny	27	225 km NE	3,062	40.1	Partly served	no figures
Castillon-la-Bataille	33	350 km S	3,344	56.4	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 86 % · humidity 71 %
Lapalisse	03	393 km SE	3,138	50.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 81 %
Bavay	59	431 km NE	3,249	55	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Le Grand-Lemps	38	560 km SE	3,083	55.4	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 53 % · humidity 86 %
Seltz	67	674 km E	3,204	44.3	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 93 % · 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 Cossé-le-Vivien'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
Bavay	59	431 km NE	3,249	55	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Brou	28	157 km E	3,230	51.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Illiers-Combray	28	165 km E	3,210	44.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Mayet	72	91 km E	3,187	36.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Joinville	52	452 km E	2,915	67	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Rosières-en-Santerre	80	336 km NE	2,894	68.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

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