Loupfougères

Mayenne · CC du Mont des Avaloirs · INSEE 53139

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

No daily shops 19.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 33 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Loupfougères (INSEE 53139) is in Mayenne (53), part of CC du Mont des Avaloirs. Population 408 (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 19.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 33 % of the 17,960 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.52	10	5.2
Housing mix	0.74	5	3.69

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE LOUPFOUGERES). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LOUPFOUGERES RP). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE LOUPFOUGERES	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	1	LOUPFOUGERES RP	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 471 2023: 408 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 394 (2012) → 408 (2023): 3.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 400 (1990) → 408 (2023): 2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 252, of which 13.1 % second homes and 14.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 4.8 km EPharmacy — 5.3 km EBakery — 5.5 km EFood shop — 5.5 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 (Villaines-la-Juhel): 5.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Villaines-la-Juhel): 5.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Villaines-la-Juhel): 4.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Villaines-la-Juhel): 5.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Loupfougères): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 9

Days at or below 0 °C 51.5

Muggy days a summer 0.6

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 52 days at or below 0 °C, over 12 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the MARCILLE-LA-VIL weather station, 9.3 km away at 260 m; the village itself is at 215 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at LE HORPS, 10.1 km away at 268 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 53 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 860 mm of rain a year, spread over 131 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at VILLAINES-LA-JU, 5.7 km away at 190 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 — 53139/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53139/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53139/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53139/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53271
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53139
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
Thevet-Saint-Julien	36	262 km SE	396	17	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Authon-Ébéon	17	278 km S	410	18.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 73 % · humidity 57 %
Bazoches-au-Houlme	61	54 km N	449	23.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 96 %
Estivaux	19	364 km SE	403	21.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-Faucher	24	340 km S	395	19	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 68 % · humidity 79 %
Le Châtenet-en-Dognon	87	305 km SE	407	18	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 80 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bazoches-au-Houlme	61	54 km N	449	23.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 96 %
Thevet-Saint-Julien	36	262 km SE	396	17	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Authon-Ébéon	17	278 km S	410	18.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 73 % · humidity 57 %
Le Châtenet-en-Dognon	87	305 km SE	407	18	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 80 %
La Chapelle-Faucher	24	340 km S	395	19	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 68 % · humidity 79 %
Estivaux	19	364 km SE	403	21.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Loupfougères'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
La Chapelle-Gauthier	27	93 km NE	406	19.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Écorcei	61	80 km NE	367	22.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Champgenéteux	53	5.4 km S	492	28.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Laurent-des-Bois	41	144 km E	330	23.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Quentin-la-Chabanne	23	334 km SE	362	14.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Eyrein	19	377 km SE	514	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

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