Lougé-sur-Maire

Orne · CC Terres d'Argentan Interco · INSEE 61237

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

Few services 20/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 43 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lougé-sur-Maire (INSEE 61237) is in Orne (61), part of CC Terres d'Argentan Interco. Population 312 (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 20/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 43 % of the 17,939 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	0.59	10	5.91
Housing mix	0.85	5	4.24

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 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”.

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

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (AU COMPTOIR DE LOUGE). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LOUGE S MAIRE COMPTOIR DE LOUGE RP). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), 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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	AU COMPTOIR DE LOUGE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	LOUGE S MAIRE COMPTOIR DE LOUGE 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	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 350 peak 2007: 383 2023: 312 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 364 (2012) → 312 (2023): -14.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 286 (1990) → 312 (2023): 9.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 184, of which 7.6 % second homes and 13.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop Primary school — 5.9 km SGP — 6.0 km SPharmacy — 6.1 km SBakery — 7.7 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 (Écouché-les-Vallées): 7.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lougé-sur-Maire): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Rânes): 6 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Rânes): 6.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Rânes): 5.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.8

Days at or below 0 °C 35.8

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 36 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the FRESNAYE-AU-SAUVAGE_SAPC weather station, 4.2 km away at 229 m; the village itself is at 178 m. ^[11]

The village sits 51 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at ARGENTAN, 17.6 km away at 170 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 862 mm of rain a year, spread over 136 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at FRESNAYE-AU-SAUVAGE_SAPC, 4.2 km away at 229 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 — 61237/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61237/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61237/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61237/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61153
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61237
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61344
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
Verrières	16	347 km S	310	10.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 95 % · humidity 71 %
Léoville	17	369 km S	300	28	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 91 % · humidity 64 %
Vicq	03	377 km SE	291	16.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Roquebrune	33	452 km S	279	20.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 96 % · humidity 57 %
Villebourg	37	129 km SE	303	14.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Montreuil-le-Chétif	72	52 km S	318	17.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Montreuil-le-Chétif	72	52 km S	318	17.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Villebourg	37	129 km SE	303	14.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Verrières	16	347 km S	310	10.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 95 % · humidity 71 %
Léoville	17	369 km S	300	28	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 91 % · humidity 64 %
Vicq	03	377 km SE	291	16.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Roquebrune	33	452 km S	279	20.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 96 % · 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 Lougé-sur-Maire'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-Léger-sur-Sarthe	61	47 km SE	320	10.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Senier-de-Beuvron	50	81 km W	324	10.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Villamée	35	77 km W	301	10	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Vignats	14	20 km NE	284	15.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
La Dorée	53	61 km SW	286	7.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Magneville	50	128 km NW	321	13.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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