Le Ribay

Mayenne · CC Mayenne Communauté · INSEE 53190

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

Partly served 40.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 85 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Ribay (INSEE 53190) is in Mayenne (53), part of CC Mayenne Communauté. Population 463 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/53190-le-ribay

Vitality score

Vitality score 40.2/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 85 % of the 17,923 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.47	10	4.73
Housing mix	0.73	5	3.67

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE P'TIT RIBAY). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (LE RIBAY AP). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (JARDIN FRANCOISE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	LE P'TIT RIBAY	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	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	LE RIBAY AP	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	1	JARDIN FRANCOISE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 593 2023: 463 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 459 (2012) → 463 (2023): 0.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 476 (1990) → 463 (2023): -2.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 264, of which 13.3 % second homes and 9.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 3.9 km NPharmacy — 6.4 km NEGP — 6.8 km NE 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 (Le Ribay): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Charchigné): 3.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Javron-les-Chapelles): 6.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Javron-les-Chapelles): 6.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Le Ribay): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.3

Days at or below 0 °C 26.6

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 27 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LE HORPS weather station, 3.4 km away at 268 m; the village itself is at 205 m. ^[11]

The village sits 63 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at LE HORPS, 3.4 km away at 268 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 63 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 861 mm of rain a year, spread over 132 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LE HORPS, 3.4 km away at 268 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 — 53190/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53190/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53190/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53190/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53190
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53061
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53121
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
Méobecq	36	228 km SE	361	43.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 76 % · humidity 86 %
Noyers-sur-Jabron	04	670 km SE	525	48.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Gy-l'Évêque	89	303 km E	442	41.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 39 % · humidity 100 %
Baupte	50	124 km NW	436	41.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Laffrey	38	601 km SE	466	52.9	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Marcel	73	618 km SE	611	38	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 18 % · winter 38 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Baupte	50	124 km NW	436	41.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Méobecq	36	228 km SE	361	43.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 76 % · humidity 86 %
Gy-l'Évêque	89	303 km E	442	41.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 39 % · humidity 100 %
Laffrey	38	601 km SE	466	52.9	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Marcel	73	618 km SE	611	38	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 18 % · winter 38 %
Noyers-sur-Jabron	04	670 km SE	525	48.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · 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 Le Ribay'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
Baupte	50	124 km NW	436	41.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Gourdon	06	769 km SE	367	47.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Plouégat-Moysan	29	237 km W	717	48.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Chambray	27	148 km NE	391	33.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Port-Launay	29	272 km W	404	32.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Heuchin	62	303 km NE	482	47.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

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