Meslay-du-Maine

Mayenne · CC du Pays de Meslay-Grez · INSEE 53152

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

Served 65.9/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 97 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Meslay-du-Maine (INSEE 53152) is in Mayenne (53), part of CC du Pays de Meslay-Grez. Population 2,779 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 65.9/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 97 % of the 7,609 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	0.68	25	17.01
Social	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.68	10	6.82
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.65	10	6.49
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.74

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) (LA BOULE D'OR · H BEN). ^[3,4]

3 × Butcher (boucherie) (MAISON DU MAINE). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (PROXI · SCTR MAYENNE). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (CHABOSSIERE DISTRIBUTION ALIMENTAIRE). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (ENSEMBLE SCOLAIRE NOTRE DAME · MELAY KEBAB). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (LE PRINAJEAN · CAFE DU CENTRE). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE ANNIE FRATELLINI). ^[3]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE RENE CASSIN · ECOLE PRIVEE MIXTE SACRE COEUR). ^[3]

2 × Collège (COLLEGE MAURICE GENEVOIX · COLLEGE PRIVE NOTRE DAME). ^[3]

7 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JOSSELIN DELAHAYE, MÉDECIN · THI MEN VU, MÉDECIN · MATTHIEU PEUROIS, MÉDECIN · FABIEN CESARO, MÉDECIN · HUGO SANTOS, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DES GRANDS JARDINS). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (CC MESLAY-GREZ - MÉDIATHÈQUE DE MESLAY-DU-MAINE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF). ^[3]

4 × Bank (CAISSE D'EPARGNE ET DE PREVOYANCE BRETAGNE - PAYS DE LOIRE · CAISSE REG CREDIT AGRI MUTUEL ANJOU MAIN · CAISSE FEDERALE DU CREDIT MUTUEL DE MAINE ANJOU ET BASSE NORMANDIE · CAISSE DE CREDIT MUTUEL MESLAY L OCEANE). ^[3]

5 × Hairdresser (CENTRE DE BEAUTE CANNELLE · INSTINC'TIF · C'BEAU DE L'HAIR · L'UNIV'HAIR D'AVELINE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LA CHESNAIE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	LA BOULE D'OR · H BEN	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	3	MAISON DU MAINE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	PROXI · SCTR MAYENNE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	CHABOSSIERE DISTRIBUTION ALIMENTAIRE	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	2	ENSEMBLE SCOLAIRE NOTRE DAME · MELAY KEBAB	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	LE PRINAJEAN · CAFE DU CENTRE	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE ANNIE FRATELLINI	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE RENE CASSIN · ECOLE PRIVEE MIXTE SACRE COEUR	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	2	COLLEGE MAURICE GENEVOIX · COLLEGE PRIVE NOTRE DAME	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	7	JOSSELIN DELAHAYE, MÉDECIN · THI MEN VU, MÉDECIN · MATTHIEU PEUROIS, MÉDECIN · FABIEN CESARO, MÉDECIN · HUGO SANTOS, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 7 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DES GRANDS JARDINS	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 MESLAY-GREZ - MÉDIATHÈQUE DE MESLAY-DU-MAINE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	4	CAISSE D'EPARGNE ET DE PREVOYANCE BRETAGNE - PAYS DE LOIRE · CAISSE REG CREDIT AGRI MUTUEL ANJOU MAIN · CAISSE FEDERALE DU CREDIT MUTUEL DE MAINE ANJOU ET BASSE NORMANDIE · CAISSE DE CREDIT MUTUEL MESLAY L OCEANE	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Hairdresser	5	CENTRE DE BEAUTE CANNELLE · INSTINC'TIF · C'BEAU DE L'HAIR · L'UNIV'HAIR D'AVELINE	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING LA CHESNAIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,676 peak 2017: 2,875 2023: 2,779 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,777 (2012) → 2,779 (2023): 0.1 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 2,418 (1990) → 2,779 (2023): 14.9 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,522, of which 2.6 % second homes and 8.5 % 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 (Meslay-du-Maine): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Meslay-du-Maine): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Meslay-du-Maine): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Meslay-du-Maine): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Meslay-du-Maine): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.1

Days at or below 0 °C 41.3

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 41 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the GREZ-EN-BOUERE weather station, 6.7 km away at 93 m; the village itself is at 88 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at GREZ-EN-BOUERE, 6.7 km away at 93 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

An average of 739 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at MESLAY-DU-MAINE, 0.8 km away at 86 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53152/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2025-12— https://data.datatourisme.fr/49/6dfaa72f-1d2a-31e6-87ec-969287e358d1— “MARCHÉ DE MESLAY-DU-MAINE”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53152/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53152/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53152/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53152
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
Courville-sur-Eure	28	144 km NE	2,791	66.9	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
L'Isle-sur-le-Doubs	25	537 km E	2,780	64.2	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 43 % · humidity 100 %
Arcis-sur-Aube	10	354 km E	2,785	66.4	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 74 %
Venarey-les-Laumes	21	377 km E	2,747	64.3	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Chailles	41	147 km E	2,726	56.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Villeneuve-sur-Aisne	02	371 km NE	2,792	56.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Courville-sur-Eure	28	144 km NE	2,791	66.9	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Chailles	41	147 km E	2,726	56.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Arcis-sur-Aube	10	354 km E	2,785	66.4	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 74 %
Villeneuve-sur-Aisne	02	371 km NE	2,792	56.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Venarey-les-Laumes	21	377 km E	2,747	64.3	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
L'Isle-sur-le-Doubs	25	537 km E	2,780	64.2	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 43 % · 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 Meslay-du-Maine'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
Courville-sur-Eure	28	144 km NE	2,791	66.9	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Chailles	41	147 km E	2,726	56.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
La Queue-les-Yvelines	78	196 km NE	2,629	64.1	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Donnemarie-Dontilly	77	280 km E	2,706	56.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Joinville	52	426 km E	2,915	67	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Dormans	51	333 km NE	2,890	65.9	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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