La Chaux

Orne · CC du Pays Fertois et du Bocage Carrougien · INSEE 61104

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

No daily shops 9.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 35 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Chaux (INSEE 61104) is in Orne (61), part of CC du Pays Fertois et du Bocage Carrougien. Population 53 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 9.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 35 % of the 5,200 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.46	10	4.64
Housing mix	0.67	5	3.33

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

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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 79 2023: 53 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 50 (2012) → 53 (2023): 6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 55 (1990) → 53 (2023): -3.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 36, of which 16.7 % second homes and 11.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 3.7 km SEFood shop — 4.8 km NEGP — 4.8 km NEPharmacy — 4.8 km NEPrimary school — 5.0 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 (Joué-du-Bois): 3.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Rânes): 4.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Rânes): 4.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Rânes): 4.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Rânes): 5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.4

Days at or below 0 °C 50.1

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 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CARROUGES weather station, 9.3 km away at 295 m; the village itself is at 264 m. ^[10]

An average of 925 mm of rain a year, spread over 138 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at RANES - CHATEAU, 4.7 km away at 250 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 — 61104/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61104/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61104/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61104/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61209
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61344
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
Gesnes-en-Argonne	55	396 km E	53	10.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 99 %
Berzé-le-Châtel	71	446 km SE	54	7.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 50 %
Montclard	43	473 km SE	52	7.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 5 %
Pomy	11	643 km S	51	7.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 62 % · winter 51 %
Vauxbons	52	409 km E	55	10.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 53 %
Maucourt-sur-Orne	55	427 km E	51	11.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 72 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Gesnes-en-Argonne	55	396 km E	53	10.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 99 %
Vauxbons	52	409 km E	55	10.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 53 %
Maucourt-sur-Orne	55	427 km E	51	11.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 72 %
Berzé-le-Châtel	71	446 km SE	54	7.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 50 %
Montclard	43	473 km SE	52	7.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 5 %
Pomy	11	643 km S	51	7.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 62 % · winter 51 %

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