Moulins-la-Marche

Orne · CC des Pays de L'Aigle · INSEE 61297

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Served 61.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 98 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Moulins-la-Marche (INSEE 61297) is in Orne (61), part of CC des Pays de L'Aigle. Population 710 (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 61.7/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 98 % of the 16,370 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	0.5	25	12.47
Social	0.75	20	14.97
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.79	10	7.91
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.37	10	3.7
Housing mix	0.79	5	3.93

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 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”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA CRAQUANTINE · AU ROI DE LA BRIOCHE). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (BRIQUET MLM). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (HOTEL RESTAURANT LE DAUPHIN MOULINOIS · LE CRISTAL BAR). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (L'ALEZAN). ^[4]

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

1 × Collège (COLLEGE ANDRE COLLET). ^[3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (FLORENCE CORVAISIER-DREGE, MÉDECIN · PHILIPPE POUTRAIN, MÉDECIN · STEPHANIE GUIVIER-LE COCQ, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE GLORIA). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE INTERCOMMUNALE DES PAYS DE L'AIGLE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (ESPACE SPORTIF). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (HÔTEL DU DAUPHIN). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie), 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	LA CRAQUANTINE · AU ROI DE LA BRIOCHE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	BRIQUET MLM	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	2	HOTEL RESTAURANT LE DAUPHIN MOULINOIS · LE CRISTAL BAR	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	L'ALEZAN	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE ANDRE COLLET	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	FLORENCE CORVAISIER-DREGE, MÉDECIN · PHILIPPE POUTRAIN, MÉDECIN · STEPHANIE GUIVIER-LE COCQ, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE GLORIA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE INTERCOMMUNALE DES PAYS DE L'AIGLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	ESPACE SPORTIF	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	HÔTEL DU DAUPHIN	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: 917 2023: 710 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 760 (2012) → 710 (2023): -6.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 816 (1990) → 710 (2023): -13 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 468, of which 10.7 % second homes and 18.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 0.7 km NPharmacy — 0.7 km N 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 (Moulins-la-Marche): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Moulins-la-Marche): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Moulins-la-Marche): 0.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Moulins-la-Marche): 0.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Moulins-la-Marche): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 4.7

Days at or below 0 °C 42.5

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 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 43 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the COURTOMER weather station, 9.6 km away at 223 m; the village itself is at 258 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at ST-HILAIRE, 11 km away at 242 m, over 21 summers. ^[9]

An average of 861 mm of rain a year, spread over 135 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at SOLIGNY-LA-TRAPPE, 7.1 km away at 240 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61297/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61297/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61297/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61297/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61297
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
Gensac	33	428 km S	687	60.7	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 26 % · winter 88 %
Cuq-Toulza	81	575 km S	702	65.2	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 66 % · humidity 64 %
Sancergues	18	246 km SE	620	57.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Vauvillers	70	424 km E	602	55.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Puisseguin	33	416 km S	834	53.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 86 % · humidity 79 %
Chevagnes	03	323 km SE	630	60.3	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sancergues	18	246 km SE	620	57.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Chevagnes	03	323 km SE	630	60.3	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Puisseguin	33	416 km S	834	53.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 86 % · humidity 79 %
Vauvillers	70	424 km E	602	55.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Gensac	33	428 km S	687	60.7	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 26 % · winter 88 %
Cuq-Toulza	81	575 km S	702	65.2	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 66 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Moulins-la-Marche'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
Rochefort-en-Terre	56	234 km SW	647	69.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-Valmeroux	15	420 km S	716	53.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Mortrée	61	29 km W	1,115	44.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Georges-du-Vièvre	27	67 km N	894	75	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Montaudin	53	112 km W	879	55	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Étréaupont	02	286 km NE	839	57	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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