Hercé

Mayenne · CC du Bocage Mayennais · INSEE 53115

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 8.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 4 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Hercé (INSEE 53115) is in Mayenne (53), part of CC du Bocage Mayennais. Population 297 (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 8.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 4 % of the 17,836 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.41	10	4.05
Housing mix	0.65	5	3.23

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. ^[3,4]

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, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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: 408 2023: 297 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 324 (2012) → 297 (2023): -8.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 328 (1990) → 297 (2023): -9.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 175, of which 17.7 % second homes and 5.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 2.8 km EFood shop — 2.9 km EPrimary school — 2.9 km EGP — 3.2 km EPharmacy — 3.3 km E 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 (Gorron): 2.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Gorron): 2.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Gorron): 3.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Gorron): 3.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Gorron): 2.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

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. ^[9]

Measured at the ST-MARS/LA-FUTA weather station, 12.1 km away at 208 m; the village itself is at 187 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at ERNEE, 15.9 km away at 168 m, over 29 summers. ^[9]

An average of 943 mm of rain a year, spread over 137 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at BRECE, 5.3 km away at 166 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53115/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53115/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53115/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53115/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53107
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
Sainte-Geneviève	50	142 km N	299	11.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Neuvy-en-Dunois	28	178 km E	300	11.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Rimay	41	151 km SE	294	8.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 73 %
Saint-Martin-le-Gaillard	76	237 km NE	295	10.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 97 %
Mandeville-en-Bessin	14	98 km N	303	11.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Mesnil-Verclives	27	197 km NE	290	14.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Mandeville-en-Bessin	14	98 km N	303	11.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Geneviève	50	142 km N	299	11.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Rimay	41	151 km SE	294	8.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 73 %
Neuvy-en-Dunois	28	178 km E	300	11.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Mesnil-Verclives	27	197 km NE	290	14.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-le-Gaillard	76	237 km NE	295	10.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 97 %

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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 Hercé'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
Hardencourt-Cocherel	27	174 km NE	298	14.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Hautot-l'Auvray	76	190 km NE	305	9.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
La Grée-Saint-Laurent	56	131 km W	304	11.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Le Mesnil-Villement	14	60 km NE	282	9.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Le Theil-Nolent	27	131 km NE	285	16	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Anvéville	76	184 km NE	291	16.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

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