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Suré

Orne · CC Maine Saosnois · INSEE 61476

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

No daily shops 10.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 11 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Suré (INSEE 61476) is in Orne (61), part of CC Maine Saosnois. Population 277 (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/61476-sure

Vitality score

Vitality score 10.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 11 % of the 17,645 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 trend0.57105.74
Housing mix0.6753.33

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: 279 peak 1999: 291 2023: 277 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 262 (2012) → 277 (2023): 5.7 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 258 (1990) → 277 (2023): 7.4 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 156, of which 16.7 % second homes and 5.1 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 2.4 km S (Mamers)Primary school — 2.7 km SW (Mamers)Bakery — 2.8 km SW (Mamers)GP — 2.9 km SW (Mamers)Pharmacy — 3.0 km SW (Mamers)
Food shop — 2.4 km SPrimary school — 2.7 km SWBakery — 2.8 km SWGP — 2.9 km SWPharmacy — 3.0 km SW 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 (Mamers): 2.8 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Mamers): 2.4 km to the south (straight line). [8]

GP (Mamers): 2.9 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Mamers): 3 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Mamers): 2.7 km to the south-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 11 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. [9]

Measured at the BELLEME_SAPC weather station, 11.3 km away at 168 m; the village itself is at 115 m. [9]

The village sits 53 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. [9]

An average of 819 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. [9]

Rainfall measured at PERVENCHERES, 7.1 km away at 151 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 — 61476/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61476/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61476/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61476/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 72180
  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
Boncourt2895 km NE27414.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 100 %
Artigues83676 km SE28215.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 0 % · winter 74 %
Massognes86183 km S27413.6No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 92 %
Ségus65590 km S26813.9No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 99 %
Saint-Denis-de-Vaux71367 km SE27513.7No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 85 %
Tavant37138 km S26712No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 99 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Boncourt2895 km NE27414.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 100 %
Tavant37138 km S26712No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 99 %
Massognes86183 km S27413.6No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 92 %
Saint-Denis-de-Vaux71367 km SE27513.7No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 85 %
Ségus65590 km S26813.9No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 99 %
Artigues83676 km SE28215.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 0 % · winter 74 %

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