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Les Menus

Orne · CC des Hauts du Perche · INSEE 61274

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 14.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 27 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Les Menus (INSEE 61274) is in Orne (61), part of CC des Hauts du Perche. Population 244 (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/61274-les-menus

Vitality score

Vitality score 14.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 27 % of the 17,108 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend11010
Housing mix0.4152.04

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 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 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 189 2023: 244 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 196 (2012) → 244 (2023): 24.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 118 (1990) → 244 (2023): 106.8 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 135, of which 29.6 % second homes and 1.5 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmFood shop — 2.6 km NW (Longny les Villages)Bakery — 2.9 km NW (Longny les Villages)Primary school — 2.9 km NW (Longny les Villages)GP — 8.6 km SE (La Loupe)Pharmacy — 8.7 km NE (Senonches)
Food shop — 2.6 km NWBakery — 2.9 km NWPrimary school — 2.9 km NWGP — 8.6 km SEPharmacy — 8.7 km NE 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 (Longny les Villages): 2.9 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Longny les Villages): 2.6 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

GP (La Loupe): 8.6 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Senonches): 8.7 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Longny les Villages): 2.9 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 10 days a year at or above 30 °C and 65 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the LONGNY-AU-PERCHE weather station, 13.8 km away at 170 m; the village itself is at 216 m. [11]

An average of 834 mm of rain a year, spread over 140 days — about 6 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at LONGNY-AU-PERCHE, 13.8 km away at 170 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61274/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61274/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61274/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61274/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 61230
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 28214
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 28373
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Blosseville76148 km N2608.4No daily shopsno figures
Revest-les-Roches06704 km SE23914.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 85 % · winter 51 %
Lascaux19356 km S22812.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 62 %
Villiers-sur-Yonne58232 km SE2679.9No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 86 %
Marignac-en-Diois26533 km SE23114.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 51 % · winter 47 %
Vernoy89169 km E24412.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 74 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Blosseville76148 km N2608.4No daily shopsno figures
Vernoy89169 km E24412.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 74 %
Villiers-sur-Yonne58232 km SE2679.9No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 86 %
Lascaux19356 km S22812.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 62 %
Marignac-en-Diois26533 km SE23114.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 51 % · winter 47 %
Revest-les-Roches06704 km SE23914.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 85 % · winter 51 %

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