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Résenlieu

Orne · CC des Vallées d'Auge et du Merlerault · INSEE 61347

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

No daily shops 8.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 10 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Résenlieu (INSEE 61347) is in Orne (61), part of CC des Vallées d'Auge et du Merlerault. Population 171 (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/61347-resenlieu

Vitality score

Vitality score 8.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 10 % of the 15,020 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 trend0.42104.24
Housing mix0.6653.29

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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 184 peak 2012: 210 2023: 171 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 210 (2012) → 171 (2023): -18.6 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 185 (1990) → 171 (2023): -7.6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 105, of which 17.1 % second homes and 5.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 1.1 km E (Gacé)Primary school — 1.2 km E (Gacé)Bakery — 1.3 km E (Gacé)Pharmacy — 1.5 km E (Gacé)GP — 1.6 km NE (Gacé)
Food shop — 1.1 km EPrimary school — 1.2 km EBakery — 1.3 km EPharmacy — 1.5 km EGP — 1.6 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 (Gacé): 1.3 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Gacé): 1.1 km to the east (straight line). [8]

GP (Gacé): 1.6 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Gacé): 1.5 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Gacé): 1.2 km to the east (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 8 days a year at or above 30 °C and 47 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. [9]

Measured at the ECHAUFFOUR weather station, 8.3 km away at 280 m; the village itself is at 233 m. [9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. [9]

Humidity measured at PIN AU HARAS-INRAE, 10.3 km away at 202 m, over 15 summers. [9]

An average of 795 mm of rain a year, spread over 140 days — about 5.7 mm on a day it rains. [9]

Rainfall measured at ST PIERRE-LA-RIVIERE, 7 km away at 160 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61347/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61347/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61347/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61347/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 61181
  9. 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
Mérinville45212 km E17115.6No daily shopsno figures
Montceau-et-Écharnant21379 km SE17315.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Brumetz02213 km E17510.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Allemant51258 km E16611.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Noncourt-sur-le-Rongeant52367 km E1687.3No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Les Alliés25504 km E17215.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Mérinville45212 km E17115.6No daily shopsno figures
Brumetz02213 km E17510.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Allemant51258 km E16611.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Noncourt-sur-le-Rongeant52367 km E1687.3No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Montceau-et-Écharnant21379 km SE17315.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Les Alliés25504 km E17215.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Résenlieu'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Montceau-et-Écharnant21379 km SE17315.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Brumetz02213 km E17510.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Allemant51258 km E16611.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Ernemont-Boutavent60142 km NE17212.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Denœux62221 km NE17311.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
La Gaudaine2873 km SE17814.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %