Joué-du-Bois

Orne · CC du Pays Fertois et du Bocage Carrougien · INSEE 61209

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

No daily shops 17.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 26 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Joué-du-Bois (INSEE 61209) is in Orne (61), part of CC du Pays Fertois et du Bocage Carrougien. Population 382 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/61209-joue-du-bois

Vitality score

Vitality score 17.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 26 % of the 18,035 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	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.48	10	4.77
Housing mix	0.6	5	3.01

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 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, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA P'TITE BOULANGE DE VANESSA). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (JOUE DU BOIS RP). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LA P'TITE BOULANGE DE VANESSA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	JOUE DU BOIS 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		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: 526 2023: 382 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 423 (2012) → 382 (2023): -9.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 391 (1990) → 382 (2023): -2.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 272, of which 19.9 % second homes and 14.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery Primary school — 4.7 km SFood shop — 6.4 km EGP — 6.5 km NPharmacy — 6.6 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 (Joué-du-Bois): 0.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Carrouges): 6.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Rânes): 6.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Carrouges): 6.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Lignières-Orgères): 4.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

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. ^[12]

Measured at the CARROUGES weather station, 6.1 km away at 295 m; the village itself is at 300 m. ^[12]

An average of 961 mm of rain a year, spread over 144 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at CARROUGES, 6.1 km away at 295 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61209/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61209/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61209/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61209/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61209
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61074
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61344
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53133
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
Sussac	87	354 km SE	372	14.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 74 %
Saint-Mard-de-Réno	61	64 km E	386	14.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 92 %
Montboyer	16	363 km S	341	22.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 44 % · winter 89 %
Gathemo	50	59 km W	265	15.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 84 %
Lannes	47	507 km S	359	9.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 18 % · winter 84 %
Happonvilliers	28	103 km E	296	19.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 78 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Gathemo	50	59 km W	265	15.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 84 %
Saint-Mard-de-Réno	61	64 km E	386	14.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 92 %
Happonvilliers	28	103 km E	296	19.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 78 %
Sussac	87	354 km SE	372	14.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 74 %
Montboyer	16	363 km S	341	22.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 44 % · winter 89 %
Lannes	47	507 km S	359	9.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 18 % · winter 84 %

Sort and compare these on the full list →

Elsewhere

Wikipedia (en) ·Wikipedia (fr) · INSEE dossier complet · OpenStreetMap · Web search · Map

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/61209-joue-du-bois