Ciral

Orne · CU d'Alençon · INSEE 61107

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

Few services 30.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 67 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ciral (INSEE 61107) is in Orne (61), part of CU d'Alençon. Population 409 (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 30.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 67 % of the 17,978 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.46	10	4.62
Housing mix	0.7	5	3.5

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (A LA BONNE TRADITION DE PHILIPPE). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE PENALTY). ^[4]

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

1 × Hairdresser (CORINNE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie).

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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)	1	A LA BONNE TRADITION DE PHILIPPE	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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	1	LE PENALTY	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)	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	CORINNE COIFFURE	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: 503 2023: 409 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 426 (2012) → 409 (2023): -4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 425 (1990) → 409 (2023): -3.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 246, of which 15 % second homes and 14.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 5.1 km SWBakery — 5.8 km SWGP — 6.4 km SWPharmacy — 8.0 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 (Pré-en-Pail-Saint-Samson): 5.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Pré-en-Pail-Saint-Samson): 5.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Pré-en-Pail-Saint-Samson): 6.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Denis-sur-Sarthon): 8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Ciral): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.4

Days at or below 0 °C 50.1

Muggy days a summer 0.3

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. ^[11]

Measured at the CARROUGES weather station, 8.1 km away at 295 m; the village itself is at 311 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ALENCON, 19.1 km away at 143 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 168 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 966 mm of rain a year, spread over 138 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ST ELLIER DES BOIS, 3.9 km away at 266 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61107/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61107/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61107/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61107/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53185
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61382
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61107
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
Heugnes	36	201 km SE	380	29.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 51 % · winter 91 %
Saint-Aquilin	24	371 km S	458	32.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 80 % · humidity 64 %
Montaillé	72	88 km SE	516	30.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Bulat-Pestivien	22	235 km W	406	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Botsorhel	29	258 km W	425	21.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Broualan	35	112 km W	415	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Montaillé	72	88 km SE	516	30.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Broualan	35	112 km W	415	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Heugnes	36	201 km SE	380	29.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 51 % · winter 91 %
Bulat-Pestivien	22	235 km W	406	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Botsorhel	29	258 km W	425	21.9	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Aquilin	24	371 km S	458	32.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 80 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Ciral'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
Bulat-Pestivien	22	235 km W	406	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Broualan	35	112 km W	415	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Trégrom	22	241 km W	464	31.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-Gauthier	27	70 km NE	406	19.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Gurunhuel	22	233 km W	409	39.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Écorcei	61	58 km NE	367	22.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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