Almenêches

Orne · CC des Sources de l'Orne · INSEE 61002

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

Partly served 59.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 98 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Almenêches (INSEE 61002) is in Orne (61), part of CC des Sources de l'Orne. Population 638 (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/61002-almeneches

Vitality score

Vitality score 59.2/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 98 % of the 16,783 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	0.71	25	17.74
Social	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.47	10	4.67
Housing mix	0.84	5	4.19

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (PERLIN.PAIN.PAIN · LES DELICES D'ALMENECHES). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (SARL MAILLARD). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (SARL ALMENECHES DISTRIBUTION). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (AU BISTROT DE FERNAND). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (AU P'TIT KFE D'ISA). ^[4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CAROLINE COLLIGNON, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (ALMENECHES RP). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (CHEZ AGATHE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	PERLIN.PAIN.PAIN · LES DELICES D'ALMENECHES	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	SARL MAILLARD	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	SARL ALMENECHES DISTRIBUTION	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	AU BISTROT DE FERNAND	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	AU P'TIT KFE D'ISA	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)	1	CAROLINE COLLIGNON, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	ALMENECHES RP	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	CHEZ AGATHE	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 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 615 peak 2017: 716 2023: 638 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 689 (2012) → 638 (2023): -7.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 660 (1990) → 638 (2023): -3.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 395, of which 8.1 % second homes and 16.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 6.9 km S 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 (Almenêches): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Almenêches): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Almenêches): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Mortrée): 6.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Almenêches): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.5

Days at or below 0 °C 54.9

Muggy days a summer 1.5

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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 55 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the PIN AU HARAS-INRAE weather station, 6.1 km away at 202 m; the village itself is at 180 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at PIN AU HARAS-INRAE, 6.1 km away at 202 m, over 15 summers. ^[10]

An average of 764 mm of rain a year, spread over 132 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ALMENECHES, 0.3 km away at 173 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 — 61002/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61002/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61002/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61002/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61002
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61294
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
Marchenoir	41	136 km SE	677	51.9	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Scolasse-sur-Sarthe	61	25 km SE	582	53.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Lamagdelaine	46	482 km S	721	52.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 82 % · humidity 79 %
Nouans-les-Fontaines	37	195 km SE	672	50.8	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Menars	41	152 km SE	609	54.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Conflans-sur-Lanterne	70	462 km E	564	58.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sainte-Scolasse-sur-Sarthe	61	25 km SE	582	53.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Marchenoir	41	136 km SE	677	51.9	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Menars	41	152 km SE	609	54.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Nouans-les-Fontaines	37	195 km SE	672	50.8	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Conflans-sur-Lanterne	70	462 km E	564	58.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Lamagdelaine	46	482 km S	721	52.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 82 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Almenêches'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
Sainte-Scolasse-sur-Sarthe	61	25 km SE	582	53.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Rosiers-d'Égletons	19	396 km S	1,083	41.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Châtillon-sur-Marne	51	271 km E	625	67.4	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Les Aspres	61	36 km E	625	44.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Vertolaye	63	435 km SE	562	60.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Jaulgonne	02	254 km E	672	59.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

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