Berfay

Sarthe · CC des Vallées de la Braye et de l'Anille · INSEE 72032

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

Few services 25.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 61 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Berfay (INSEE 72032) is in Sarthe (72), part of CC des Vallées de la Braye et de l'Anille. Population 333 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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/72032-berfay

Vitality score

Vitality score 25.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 61 % of the 17,999 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.55	10	5.54
Housing mix	0.71	5	3.54

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, 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]
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	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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)	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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 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: 373 peak 2007: 379 2023: 333 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 366 (2012) → 333 (2023): -9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 316 (1990) → 333 (2023): 5.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 212, of which 14.6 % second homes and 12.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 7.5 km NBakery — 7.6 km NFood shop — 7.6 km NPharmacy — 8.2 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 (Vibraye): 7.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Vibraye): 7.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Vibraye): 7.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Calais): 8.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Berfay): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 13.1

Days at or below 0 °C 43.7

Muggy days a summer 1.2

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 44 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SAINTE CEROTTE weather station, 11.3 km away at 157 m; the village itself is at 137 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at LE LUART, 15.9 km away at 112 m, over 20 summers. ^[11]

An average of 750 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at BERFAY, 0.7 km away at 158 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 — 72032/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72032/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72032/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72032/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72373
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72269
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72032
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
Mussy-sous-Dun	71	333 km SE	327	26.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 38 % · humidity 100 %
Tranzault	36	172 km SE	349	25.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Magnien	21	293 km E	316	24.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Nesle-Hodeng	76	198 km N	323	24	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jean-de-Nay	43	395 km SE	337	20.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 5 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jean-en-Val	63	338 km SE	356	29.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 47 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Tranzault	36	172 km SE	349	25.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Nesle-Hodeng	76	198 km N	323	24	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Magnien	21	293 km E	316	24.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Mussy-sous-Dun	71	333 km SE	327	26.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 38 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jean-en-Val	63	338 km SE	356	29.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 47 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jean-de-Nay	43	395 km SE	337	20.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 5 % · 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 Berfay'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
Placé	53	118 km W	359	26.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Montboucher	23	237 km S	372	25.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Serre-Nerpol	38	465 km SE	307	33.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Argenvilliers	28	33 km NE	310	26.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Le Bignon-du-Maine	53	103 km W	322	30.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Laurent-des-Bois	41	53 km E	330	23.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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