Saint-Brice

Mayenne · CC du Pays de Meslay-Grez · INSEE 53203

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

Few services 20.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 28 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Brice (INSEE 53203) is in Mayenne (53), part of CC du Pays de Meslay-Grez. Population 517 (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/53203-saint-brice

Vitality score

Vitality score 20.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 28 % of the 17,723 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	5	0
Population trend	0.72	10	7.16
Housing mix	0.85	5	4.25

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE 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	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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 481 peak 2012: 537 2023: 517 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 537 (2012) → 517 (2023): -3.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 425 (1990) → 517 (2023): 21.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 267, of which 7.5 % second homes and 10.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.6 km WFood shop — 4.2 km NGP — 6.2 km WPharmacy — 6.4 km W 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 (Bouère): 2.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Loup-du-Dorat): 4.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Grez-en-Bouère): 6.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Grez-en-Bouère): 6.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Brice): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.8

Days at or below 0 °C 39.3

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 39 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ST-LOUP-DU-DORAT weather station, 2.8 km away at 60 m; the village itself is at 48 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at GREZ-EN-BOUERE, 8.4 km away at 93 m, over 21 summers. ^[12]

An average of 753 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ST-LOUP-DU-DORAT, 2.8 km away at 60 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53203/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53203/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53203/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53203/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53036
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53233
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53110
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53203
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
Berstheim	67	609 km E	513	24.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Marchéville	28	138 km NE	507	22.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Clarens	65	526 km S	513	22.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 79 %
Pressigny-les-Pins	45	238 km E	527	22.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Arthun	42	412 km SE	532	20.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-de-Bonfossé	50	143 km N	530	17.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Marchéville	28	138 km NE	507	22.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-de-Bonfossé	50	143 km N	530	17.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Pressigny-les-Pins	45	238 km E	527	22.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Arthun	42	412 km SE	532	20.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Clarens	65	526 km S	513	22.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 79 %
Berstheim	67	609 km E	513	24.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 84 % · 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 Saint-Brice'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
Marchéville	28	138 km NE	507	22.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Ligron	72	35 km E	494	23.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Gisy-les-Nobles	89	278 km E	545	23.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Montain	39	471 km E	484	22.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Noé	89	288 km E	559	24.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Nuillé-le-Jalais	72	71 km E	528	24.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

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