Fay

Orne · CC des Pays de L'Aigle · INSEE 61159

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school.

No daily shops 14.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 67 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Fay (INSEE 61159) is in Orne (61), part of CC des Pays de L'Aigle. Population 69 (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 14.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 67 % of the 7,284 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.5	10	5
Housing mix	0.19	5	0.94

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[4,3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Café / bar	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Collège	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0	INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 116 2023: 69 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 63 (2012) → 69 (2023): 9.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 69 (1990) → 69 (2023): 0 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 64, of which 40.6 % second homes and 6.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 4.8 km EGP — 4.9 km EPharmacy — 4.9 km EBakery — 5.0 km EFood shop — 5.1 km E 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 (Moulins-la-Marche): 5 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Moulins-la-Marche): 5.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Moulins-la-Marche): 4.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Moulins-la-Marche): 4.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Moulins-la-Marche): 4.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 4.7

Days at or below 0 °C 42.5

Muggy days a summer 0.6

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 43 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the COURTOMER weather station, 5.9 km away at 223 m; the village itself is at 241 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at ST-HILAIRE, 14.5 km away at 242 m, over 21 summers. ^[9]

An average of 803 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 6 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at COURTOMER, 5.9 km away at 223 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61159/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61159/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61159/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61159/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61297
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
Saint-Vénérand	43	490 km SE	65	13.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 23 % · humidity 93 %
Menétrux-en-Joux	39	465 km SE	76	20.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 41 % · humidity 93 %
Millevaches	19	359 km S	79	14.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 38 % · humidity 93 %
Châteauvieux	83	721 km SE	78	20	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Le Caire	04	644 km SE	80	13.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Lassur	09	663 km S	82	20.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Millevaches	19	359 km S	79	14.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 38 % · humidity 93 %
Menétrux-en-Joux	39	465 km SE	76	20.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 41 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Vénérand	43	490 km SE	65	13.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 23 % · humidity 93 %
Le Caire	04	644 km SE	80	13.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Lassur	09	663 km S	82	20.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Châteauvieux	83	721 km SE	78	20	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Fay'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
Thiéry	06	727 km SE	91	14.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Touquettes	61	15 km N	75	7.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Tellières-le-Plessis	61	3.7 km S	66	12.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Aquilin-de-Corbion	61	8.2 km E	60	3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Courgoul	63	402 km SE	62	8.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Éclusier-Vaux	80	225 km NE	85	19.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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