La Ferrière-aux-Étangs

Orne · CA Flers Agglo · INSEE 61163

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

Partly served 41.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 54 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Ferrière-aux-Étangs (INSEE 61163) is in Orne (61), part of CA Flers Agglo. Population 1,506 (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/61163-la-ferriere-aux-etangs

Vitality score

Vitality score 41.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 54 % of the 11,595 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	0.39	25	9.84
Social	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.37	10	3.72
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.64

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 1 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). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BORTOLUSSI GIOVANNI). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (COCCIMARKET). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (ADANA KEBAB). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (COM A LA MAISON · AUBERGE DE LA MINE). ^[4]

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

1 × Collège (COLLEGE CHARLES LEANDRE). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE LA FERRIERE). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (MAG CREA TIF). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette).

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BORTOLUSSI GIOVANNI	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	COCCIMARKET	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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	1	ADANA KEBAB	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	COM A LA MAISON · AUBERGE DE LA MINE	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE CHARLES LEANDRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE LA FERRIERE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1	MAG CREA TIF	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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,564 peak 1982: 1,734 2023: 1,506 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,512 (2012) → 1,506 (2023): -0.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,727 (1990) → 1,506 (2023): -12.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 801, of which 3.6 % second homes and 12.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 5.6 km N 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 (La Ferrière-aux-Étangs): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Ferrière-aux-Étangs): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Messei): 5.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (La Ferrière-aux-Étangs): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (La Ferrière-aux-Étangs): 0.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.2

Days at or below 0 °C 44

Muggy days a summer 0.4

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 44 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ST BOMER-LES-FORGES weather station, 7.8 km away at 226 m; the village itself is at 273 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at FLERS, 10.9 km away at 195 m, over 28 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 78 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 939 mm of rain a year, spread over 139 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at COULONCHE -LA-, 4.9 km away at 309 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 — 61163/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61163/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61163/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61163/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61163
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61278
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
Limésy	76	149 km NE	1,511	47.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Cesny-les-Sources	14	38 km N	1,411	44.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Lamothe-Capdeville	82	530 km S	1,068	45.4	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 91 % · humidity 57 %
Thorigné-sur-Dué	72	104 km SE	1,637	50.1	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Balleroy-sur-Drôme	14	62 km N	1,303	51.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Ruffiac	56	161 km SW	1,422	48.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Cesny-les-Sources	14	38 km N	1,411	44.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Balleroy-sur-Drôme	14	62 km N	1,303	51.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Thorigné-sur-Dué	72	104 km SE	1,637	50.1	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Limésy	76	149 km NE	1,511	47.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Ruffiac	56	161 km SW	1,422	48.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Lamothe-Capdeville	82	530 km S	1,068	45.4	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 91 % · humidity 57 %

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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 La Ferrière-aux-Étangs'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
Limésy	76	149 km NE	1,511	47.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Cesny-les-Sources	14	38 km N	1,411	44.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Balleroy-sur-Drôme	14	62 km N	1,303	51.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Ruffiac	56	161 km SW	1,422	48.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Épaignes	27	98 km NE	1,597	55.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Renescure	59	310 km NE	2,113	51.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

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