Lonrai

Orne · CU d'Alençon · INSEE 61234

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

No daily shops 18.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 4 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lonrai (INSEE 61234) is in Orne (61), part of CU d'Alençon. Population 1,062 (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/61234-lonrai

Vitality score

Vitality score 18.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 4 % of the 13,969 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	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.74	10	7.36
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.61

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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)	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)	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		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: 509 peak 2017: 1,134 2023: 1,062 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,116 (2012) → 1,062 (2023): -4.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 859 (1990) → 1,062 (2023): 23.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 487, of which 3.9 % second homes and 5.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.7 km SBakery — 3.0 km SPharmacy — 3.4 km SEGP — 4.3 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 (Condé-sur-Sarthe): 3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Condé-sur-Sarthe): 2.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Alençon): 4.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Condé-sur-Sarthe): 3.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Lonrai): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8.7

Days at or below 0 °C 42.6

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 43 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ALENCON weather station, 5.4 km away at 143 m; the village itself is at 157 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ALENCON, 5.4 km away at 143 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 749 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ALENCON, 5.4 km away at 143 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 — 61234/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61234/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61234/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61234/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61117
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61001
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61234
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
Bouquetot	27	114 km NE	1,071	20.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 86 %
Saint-Sulpice	60	181 km NE	1,079	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Barret	16	331 km S	1,080	17.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 86 % · humidity 57 %
Meyrieu-les-Étangs	38	510 km SE	1,024	21.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Blandine	38	522 km SE	1,039	20.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 32 % · humidity 100 %
Thénouville	27	107 km NE	1,014	18.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Thénouville	27	107 km NE	1,014	18.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 86 %
Bouquetot	27	114 km NE	1,071	20.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 86 %
Saint-Sulpice	60	181 km NE	1,079	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Barret	16	331 km S	1,080	17.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 86 % · humidity 57 %
Meyrieu-les-Étangs	38	510 km SE	1,024	21.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Blandine	38	522 km SE	1,039	20.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 32 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Lonrai'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
Saint-Sulpice	60	181 km NE	1,079	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Aubepierre-Ozouer-le-Repos	77	211 km E	984	22.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
La Barre-de-Semilly	50	107 km NW	1,029	22.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Norville	76	121 km N	996	21.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Héloup	61	6.9 km S	899	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Le Plessis-Grohan	27	97 km NE	946	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

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