Le Ménil-Broût

Orne · CC de la Vallée de la Haute Sarthe · INSEE 61261

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

Few services 20/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 65 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Ménil-Broût (INSEE 61261) is in Orne (61), part of CC de la Vallée de la Haute Sarthe. Population 177 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 20/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 65 % of the 15,245 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	0.61	10	6.13
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.58

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 1 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 (LE RELAIS DU MENIL BROUT). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (LE RELAIS DU MENIL BROUT). ^[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	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	1	LE RELAIS DU MENIL BROUT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	LE RELAIS DU MENIL BROUT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 113 peak 1999: 181 2023: 177 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 173 (2012) → 177 (2023): 2.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 159 (1990) → 177 (2023): 11.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 96, of which 4.2 % second homes and 10.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.2 km WGP — 4.0 km SEFood shop — 4.3 km SEBakery — 6.7 km NPharmacy — 9.6 km W 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 (Essay): 6.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Villeneuve-en-Perseigne): 4.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Villeneuve-en-Perseigne): 4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Écouves): 9.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Hauterive): 2.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

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. ^[12]

Measured at the ALENCON weather station, 9.8 km away at 143 m; the village itself is at 144 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ALENCON, 9.8 km away at 143 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 774 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at MELE-SUR-SARTHE -LE-, 9.6 km away at 155 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 — 61261/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61261/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61261/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61261/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61156
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72137
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61341
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61202
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-Morel	08	340 km E	176	15.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Pignicourt	02	296 km E	173	24.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Le Châtelet-sur-Sormonne	08	346 km NE	174	19.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Vergné	17	274 km S	172	18.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Polisy	10	311 km E	176	16.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Vavray-le-Grand	51	331 km E	176	18	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Vergné	17	274 km S	172	18.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Pignicourt	02	296 km E	173	24.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Polisy	10	311 km E	176	16.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Vavray-le-Grand	51	331 km E	176	18	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Morel	08	340 km E	176	15.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Le Châtelet-sur-Sormonne	08	346 km NE	174	19.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 54 % · 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 Le Ménil-Broût'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
Cuvillers	59	291 km NE	177	18.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Heuzecourt	80	235 km NE	165	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Thal-Drulingen	67	510 km E	186	17.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Fransart	80	234 km NE	163	23.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Ergnies	80	221 km NE	159	23.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Knœrsheim	67	532 km E	188	20	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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