Le Ham

Mayenne · CC du Mont des Avaloirs · INSEE 53112

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

No daily shops 14.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 21 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Ham (INSEE 53112) is in Mayenne (53), part of CC du Mont des Avaloirs. Population 338 (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 14.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 21 % of the 18,030 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	0.3	10	3.01
Housing mix	0.67	5	3.37

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 ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[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 ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	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: 432 peak 2007: 440 2023: 338 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 427 (2012) → 338 (2023): -20.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 422 (1990) → 338 (2023): -19.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 239, of which 16.3 % second homes and 13.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.4 km WFood shop — 4.8 km NWPharmacy — 5.0 km NEGP — 5.3 km NE 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 (Le Ribay): 2.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Charchigné): 4.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Javron-les-Chapelles): 5.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Javron-les-Chapelles): 5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Le Ham): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.3

Days at or below 0 °C 26.6

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 27 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the LE HORPS weather station, 5.5 km away at 268 m; the village itself is at 204 m. ^[12]

The village sits 64 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, 5.5 km away at 268 m, over 21 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 64 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 861 mm of rain a year, spread over 132 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LE HORPS, 5.5 km away at 268 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53112/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53112/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53112/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53112/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53190
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53061
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53121
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53112
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
Lys	64	584 km S	322	15.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 74 % · humidity 21 %
Pardaillan	47	416 km S	334	17.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 95 % · humidity 57 %
Archignat	03	307 km SE	321	19.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Noailhac	19	398 km SE	348	20	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 64 % · humidity 71 %
Villeneuve-les-Genêts	89	268 km E	312	21.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Ligny-en-Brionnais	71	419 km SE	375	20.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Villeneuve-les-Genêts	89	268 km E	312	21.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Archignat	03	307 km SE	321	19.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Noailhac	19	398 km SE	348	20	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 64 % · humidity 71 %
Pardaillan	47	416 km S	334	17.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 95 % · humidity 57 %
Ligny-en-Brionnais	71	419 km SE	375	20.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Lys	64	584 km S	322	15.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 74 % · humidity 21 %

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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 Le Ham'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
Saint-Calais-du-Désert	53	14 km NE	396	20.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Thélo	22	184 km W	371	16	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Martigny-sur-l'Ante	14	57 km N	316	20.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Rimou	35	84 km W	357	10.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Nesle-Hodeng	76	201 km NE	323	24	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Gilles-Vieux-Marché	22	193 km W	307	9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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