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Verrières

Orne · CC Coeur du Perche · INSEE 61501

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

No daily shops 12/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 9 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Verrières (INSEE 61501) is in Orne (61), part of CC Coeur du Perche. Population 408 (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/61501-verrieres

Vitality score

Vitality score 12/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 9 % of the 17,960 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 & culture0.3251.58
Population trend0.66106.62
Housing mix0.452

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 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (VERRIERES RP). [3]

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

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, 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]
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 postale1VERRIERES RPINSEE BPE 1 [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: 445 2023: 408 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 403 (2012) → 408 (2023): 1.2 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 351 (1990) → 408 (2023): 16.2 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 270, of which 30 % second homes and 5.9 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmGP — 3.7 km N (Rémalard en Perche)Bakery — 4.1 km N (Rémalard en Perche)Primary school — 4.4 km N (Rémalard en Perche)Food shop — 4.5 km NE (Rémalard en Perche)Pharmacy — 5.3 km S (Berd'huis)
GP — 3.7 km NBakery — 4.1 km NPrimary school — 4.4 km NFood shop — 4.5 km NEPharmacy — 5.3 km S 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 (Rémalard en Perche): 4.1 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Rémalard en Perche): 4.5 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

GP (Rémalard en Perche): 3.7 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Berd'huis): 5.3 km to the south (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Rémalard en Perche): 4.4 km to the north (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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 56 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the PREAUX-DU-PERCHE weather station, 8.2 km away at 133 m; the village itself is at 136 m. [10]

An average of 804 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at REMALARD, 4.8 km away at 158 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61501/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61501/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61501/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 61501/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 61345
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 61043
  10. 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
Lavau89188 km SE39210.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 95 %
Belleroche42370 km SE31314.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 51 %
Maniquerville76148 km N40910.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 72 %
Le Chalard87317 km S30213.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 77 %
Heuilley-sur-Saône21369 km E34514.5No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 92 %
Rocher07503 km SE30612.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 85 % · winter 46 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Maniquerville76148 km N40910.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 72 %
Lavau89188 km SE39210.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 95 %
Le Chalard87317 km S30213.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 77 %
Heuilley-sur-Saône21369 km E34514.5No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 92 %
Belleroche42370 km SE31314.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 51 %
Rocher07503 km SE30612.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 85 % · winter 46 %

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