Sainte-Scolasse-sur-Sarthe

Orne · CC de la Vallée de la Haute Sarthe · INSEE 61454

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

Partly served 53.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 95 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sainte-Scolasse-sur-Sarthe (INSEE 61454) is in Orne (61), part of CC de la Vallée de la Haute Sarthe. Population 582 (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/61454-sainte-scolasse-sur-sarthe

Vitality score

Vitality score 53.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 95 % of the 17,267 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	0.63	25	15.8
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.58	10	5.82
Housing mix	0.85	5	4.27

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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”.

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (O DELICES DE SAINTE SCOLASSE). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

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

2 × Restaurant (LEONARDI ROBERTO · DANDY - DECO FLEURS). ^[3,4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (WASSIM CHBEIR, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINTE SCOLASSE SUR SARTHE AP). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (UN HAIR D'ANGE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	O DELICES DE SAINTE SCOLASSE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	VIVECO	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	LEONARDI ROBERTO · DANDY - DECO FLEURS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	WASSIM CHBEIR, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	SAINTE SCOLASSE SUR SARTHE AP	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	1	UN HAIR D'ANGE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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 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: 478 peak 2017: 623 2023: 582 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 553 (2012) → 582 (2023): 5.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 538 (1990) → 582 (2023): 8.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 368, of which 7.3 % second homes and 12 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 6.2 km NW 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 (Sainte-Scolasse-sur-Sarthe): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sainte-Scolasse-sur-Sarthe): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Sainte-Scolasse-sur-Sarthe): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Courtomer): 6.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Sainte-Scolasse-sur-Sarthe): 0.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.2

Days at or below 0 °C 54.3

Muggy days a summer 0.8

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 54 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the STE SCOLASSE-SUR-SARTHE weather station, 1.3 km away at 210 m; the village itself is at 175 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ST-HILAIRE, 10.3 km away at 242 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 67 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 779 mm of rain a year, spread over 129 days — about 6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at STE SCOLASSE-SUR-SARTHE, 1.3 km away at 210 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61454/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61454/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61454/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61454/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61454
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61133
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
Almenêches	61	25 km NW	638	59.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Les Aspres	61	20 km NE	625	44.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-de-Gurson	24	404 km S	653	49.1	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 88 % · humidity 43 %
Coulanges-sur-Yonne	89	261 km SE	518	55.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Conflans-sur-Lanterne	70	439 km E	564	58.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 57 % · humidity 93 %
Givry-en-Argonne	51	332 km E	448	52.4	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Les Aspres	61	20 km NE	625	44.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Almenêches	61	25 km NW	638	59.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Coulanges-sur-Yonne	89	261 km SE	518	55.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Givry-en-Argonne	51	332 km E	448	52.4	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-de-Gurson	24	404 km S	653	49.1	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 88 % · humidity 43 %
Conflans-sur-Lanterne	70	439 km E	564	58.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 57 % · 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 Sainte-Scolasse-sur-Sarthe'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
Almenêches	61	25 km NW	638	59.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Mittelbronn	57	502 km E	636	49	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Gandelu	02	212 km E	683	41	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Quittebeuf	27	74 km NE	656	45.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Lavaveix-les-Mines	23	306 km SE	684	43	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Vertolaye	63	411 km SE	562	60.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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