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Saint-Cyr-le-Gravelais

Mayenne · CA Laval Agglomération · INSEE 53209

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

No daily shops 13.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 7 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Cyr-le-Gravelais (INSEE 53209) is in Mayenne (53), part of CA Laval Agglomération. Population 567 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/53209-saint-cyr-le-gravelais

Vitality score

Vitality score 13.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 7 % of the 17,378 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.7107.01
Housing mix0.9554.76

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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 462 2023: 567 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 539 (2012) → 567 (2023): 5.2 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 472 (1990) → 567 (2023): 20.1 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 253, of which 2.4 % second homes and 6.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmGP — 0.5 km W (Le Pertre)Bakery — 0.6 km W (Le Pertre)Primary school — 0.6 km W (Le Pertre)Pharmacy — 0.6 km W (Le Pertre)Food shop — 4.2 km SE (Beaulieu-sur-Oudon)
GP — 0.5 km WBakery — 0.6 km WPrimary school — 0.6 km WPharmacy — 0.6 km WFood shop — 4.2 km SE 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 Pertre): 0.6 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Beaulieu-sur-Oudon): 4.2 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Le Pertre): 0.5 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Le Pertre): 0.6 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Le Pertre): 0.6 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 45 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the LAUNAY-VILLIERS weather station, 10.2 km away at 153 m; the village itself is at 140 m. [10]

An average of 870 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at LAUNAY-VILLIERS, 10.2 km away at 153 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53209/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53209/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53209/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53209/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 35217
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 53026
  10. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Baltzenheim68638 km E58114.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 66 %
Pouillon51392 km NE52913.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 96 %
Pusy-et-Épenoux70537 km E54012.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 54 % · winter 59 %
Behonne55466 km E5958.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 95 %
Sormonne08454 km NE52911.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 57 %
Heutrégiville51414 km E50817.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 84 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Pouillon51392 km NE52913.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 96 %
Heutrégiville51414 km E50817.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 84 %
Sormonne08454 km NE52911.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 57 %
Behonne55466 km E5958.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 95 %
Pusy-et-Épenoux70537 km E54012.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 54 % · winter 59 %
Baltzenheim68638 km E58114.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 66 %

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