Niafles

Mayenne · CC du Pays de Craon · INSEE 53165

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

No daily shops 12.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 12 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Niafles (INSEE 53165) is in Mayenne (53), part of CC du Pays de Craon. Population 344 (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 12.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 12 % of the 18,036 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	0.58	10	5.82
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.43

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 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 [3,4]
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: 272 peak 2017: 350 2023: 344 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 331 (2012) → 344 (2023): 3.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 318 (1990) → 344 (2023): 8.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 157, of which 5.7 % second homes and 3.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 2.3 km EBakery — 2.7 km EPrimary school — 3.2 km WGP — 3.2 km EPharmacy — 3.8 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 (Craon): 2.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Craon): 2.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

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

Pharmacy (Craon): 3.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (La Selle-Craonnaise): 3.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14

Days at or below 0 °C 41.5

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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 42 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CRAON weather station, 4.8 km away at 50 m; the village itself is at 46 m. ^[10]

An average of 763 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CRAON, 4.8 km away at 50 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 — 53165/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53165/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53165/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53165/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53084
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53258
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
Villecey-sur-Mad	54	529 km E	344	16.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 66 %
Curdin	71	402 km E	345	12.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 76 %
Saint-Amant-de-Nouère	16	246 km S	345	10.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 89 %
Prouvais	02	407 km NE	346	8.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 80 %
Launay-Villiers	53	32 km N	350	11.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 96 %
Brossay	49	96 km SE	340	12.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 88 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Launay-Villiers	53	32 km N	350	11.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 96 %
Brossay	49	96 km SE	340	12.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 88 %
Saint-Amant-de-Nouère	16	246 km S	345	10.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 89 %
Curdin	71	402 km E	345	12.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 76 %
Prouvais	02	407 km NE	346	8.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 80 %
Villecey-sur-Mad	54	529 km E	344	16.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 66 %

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