Perrou

Orne · CC Andaine - Passais · INSEE 61326

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

No daily shops 17.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 35 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Perrou (INSEE 61326) is in Orne (61), part of CC Andaine - Passais. Population 299 (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/61326-perrou

Vitality score

Vitality score 17.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 35 % of the 17,839 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.1	10	1.04
Housing mix	0.7	5	3.52

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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”.

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

2 × Café / bar (VINTAGE'BAR). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (PERROU LPR RP). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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)	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	2	VINTAGE'BAR	INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	PERROU LPR 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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 525 2023: 299 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 318 (2012) → 299 (2023): -6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 495 (1990) → 299 (2023): -39.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 155, of which 14.8 % second homes and 19.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 4.0 km NFood shop — 4.1 km NBakery — 4.4 km SEGP — 6.5 km WPharmacy — 6.6 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 (Juvigny Val d'Andaine): 4.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Champsecret): 4.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Domfront en Poiraie): 6.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Domfront en Poiraie): 6.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Champsecret): 4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.2

Days at or below 0 °C 44

Muggy days a summer 1

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 44 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ST BOMER-LES-FORGES weather station, 9.3 km away at 226 m; the village itself is at 209 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at ST-FRAIMBAULT, 13 km away at 158 m, over 25 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 51 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 1,096 mm of rain a year, spread over 148 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ST BOMER-LES-FORGES, 9.3 km away at 226 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 — 61326/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61326/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61326/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61326/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61211
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61091
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61145
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-Hilaire-sur-Risle	61	79 km E	289	18.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Montceaux-lès-Provins	77	294 km E	320	20	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Chissey-sur-Loue	39	500 km E	323	18.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Demangevelle	70	493 km E	256	15.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
La Celle-Guenand	37	211 km SE	379	18.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Vouharte	16	310 km S	300	10.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Hilaire-sur-Risle	61	79 km E	289	18.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
La Celle-Guenand	37	211 km SE	379	18.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Montceaux-lès-Provins	77	294 km E	320	20	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Vouharte	16	310 km S	300	10.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Demangevelle	70	493 km E	256	15.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Chissey-sur-Loue	39	500 km E	323	18.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 88 % · 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 Perrou'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-Hilaire-sur-Risle	61	79 km E	289	18.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Michel-de-Plélan	22	123 km W	334	23	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Séry-Magneval	60	261 km E	269	21	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Saires-la-Verrerie	61	13 km N	295	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Gruny	80	277 km NE	303	14.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Marles-sur-Canche	62	271 km NE	314	16.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

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