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Saint-Martin-du-Limet

Mayenne · CC du Pays de Craon · INSEE 53240

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

No daily shops 9.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 3 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Martin-du-Limet (INSEE 53240) is in Mayenne (53), part of CC du Pays de Craon. Population 420 (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/53240-saint-martin-du-limet

Vitality score

Vitality score 9.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 3 % of the 17,991 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 trend0.4103.96
Housing mix0.8454.21

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 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

1 × Hairdresser. [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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]
Hairdresser1INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 435 peak 1999: 493 2023: 420 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 480 (2012) → 420 (2023): -12.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 469 (1990) → 420 (2023): -10.4 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 228, of which 7.9 % second homes and 6.6 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 2.3 km E (Bouchamps-lès-Craon)Bakery — 3.4 km SW (Renazé)Food shop — 3.4 km SW (Renazé)GP — 3.9 km SW (Renazé)Pharmacy — 6.4 km NE (Craon)
Primary school — 2.3 km EBakery — 3.4 km SWFood shop — 3.4 km SWGP — 3.9 km SWPharmacy — 6.4 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 (Renazé): 3.4 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Renazé): 3.4 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

GP (Renazé): 3.9 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Craon): 6.4 km to the north-east (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Bouchamps-lès-Craon): 2.3 km to the east (straight line). [10]

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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 42 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the CRAON weather station, 7.4 km away at 50 m; the village itself is at 83 m. [11]

An average of 786 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at RENAZE, 3.8 km away at 83 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53240/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53240/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53240/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 53240/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 53188
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 53084
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 53035
  11. 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
Laval-en-Brie77306 km E41213.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 97 %
Saint-Julien-de-la-Liègue27225 km NE42116.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 95 %
Saint-Jean-de-Savigny50153 km N41614.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 69 % · winter 80 %
Millery21402 km E41013.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 82 %
Lugaignac33340 km S43316.6No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 54 % · winter 85 %
Maisons28223 km E40816.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 85 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Jean-de-Savigny50153 km N41614.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 69 % · winter 80 %
Maisons28223 km E40816.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 85 %
Saint-Julien-de-la-Liègue27225 km NE42116.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 95 %
Laval-en-Brie77306 km E41213.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 97 %
Lugaignac33340 km S43316.6No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 54 % · winter 85 %
Millery21402 km E41013.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 82 %

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