La Roche-Neuville

Mayenne · CC du Pays de Château-Gontier · INSEE 53136

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

Few services 35.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 41 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Roche-Neuville (INSEE 53136) is in Mayenne (53), part of CC du Pays de Château-Gontier. Population 1,240 (2023). ^[1]

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

Commune nouvelle formed on 2019-01-01 from 1 former commune: Saint-Sulpice (53254). ^[3]

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

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/53136-la-roche-neuville

Vitality score

Vitality score 35.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 41 % of the 13,027 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	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.84	5	4.22

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 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. ^[4,5]

2 × Restaurant (LES COPAINS D'ABORD · LE MORILLAND). ^[4,5]

1 × Café / bar (EL SUEÑO). ^[5]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[4]

2 × Library (CC CHÂTEAU-GONTIER - LA ROCHE-NEUVILLE (LOIGNÉ-SUR-MAYENNE) BIBLIOTHÈQUE · CC CHÂTEAU-GONTIER - LA ROCHE-NEUVILLE (SAINT-SULPICE) BIBLIOTHÈQUE). ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[4,5]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	2	LES COPAINS D'ABORD · LE MORILLAND	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,5]
Café / bar	1	EL SUEÑO	INSEE SIRENE 1 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	2	CC CHÂTEAU-GONTIER - LA ROCHE-NEUVILLE (LOIGNÉ-SUR-MAYENNE) BIBLIOTHÈQUE · CC CHÂTEAU-GONTIER - LA ROCHE-NEUVILLE (SAINT-SULPICE) BIBLIOTHÈQUE	INSEE BPE 2 [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		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4,5]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 851 2023: 1,240 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,126 (2012) → 1,240 (2023): 10.1 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 779 (1990) → 1,240 (2023): 59.2 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 540, of which 7.8 % second homes and 2.6 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 4.7 km SBakery — 4.8 km SEPharmacy — 4.9 km SEGP — 5.8 km SE 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 (Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne): 4.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne): 4.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne): 5.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne): 4.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (La Roche-Neuville): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.2

Days at or below 0 °C 43.6

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 44 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the VILLIERS-CHARLE weather station, 5.8 km away at 67 m; the village itself is at 84 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at GREZ-EN-BOUERE, 15.5 km away at 93 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

An average of 777 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at VILLIERS-CHARLE, 5.8 km away at 67 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53136/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53136/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53136/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53136/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53062
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53136
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
Allériot	71	445 km E	1,165	32.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Larré	56	133 km W	1,104	36.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Antran	86	150 km SE	1,148	31.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 78 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Martin-des-Tilleuls	85	103 km S	1,150	32.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 95 %
Coat-Méal	29	290 km W	1,133	32.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 50 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Hélène	56	184 km W	1,303	35.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Martin-des-Tilleuls	85	103 km S	1,150	32.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 95 %
Larré	56	133 km W	1,104	36.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Antran	86	150 km SE	1,148	31.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 78 % · humidity 71 %
Sainte-Hélène	56	184 km W	1,303	35.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Coat-Méal	29	290 km W	1,133	32.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 50 % · humidity 100 %
Allériot	71	445 km E	1,165	32.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 81 % · 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 La Roche-Neuville'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
Billy-sur-Aisne	02	346 km NE	1,130	25.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Bosc-Guérard-Saint-Adrien	76	231 km NE	1,101	32.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
La Chaussée-d'Ivry	28	199 km NE	1,321	38.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Silly-le-Long	60	295 km NE	1,217	30.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Chiry-Ourscamp	60	329 km NE	1,093	31.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Puceul	44	76 km SW	1,142	37.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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