La Chapelle-aux-Choux

Sarthe · CC Sud Sarthe · INSEE 72060

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

No daily shops 16.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 31 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Chapelle-aux-Choux (INSEE 72060) is in Sarthe (72), part of CC Sud Sarthe. Population 283 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 16.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 31 % of the 17,659 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.46	10	4.63
Housing mix	0.56	5	2.78

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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”.

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

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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

Type	Count	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [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: 321 peak 1999: 322 2023: 283 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 272 (2012) → 283 (2023): 4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 294 (1990) → 283 (2023): -3.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 189, of which 22.2 % second homes and 8.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 4.4 km EFood shop — 5.8 km WGP — 5.9 km WPharmacy — 5.9 km WBakery — 6.0 km W 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 (Le Lude): 6 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Le Lude): 5.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Le Lude): 5.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Le Lude): 5.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Germain-d'Arcé): 4.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.8

Days at or below 0 °C 46.4

Muggy days a summer 1.4

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 17 days a year at or above 30 °C and 46 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LE LUDE weather station, 6.8 km away at 58 m; the village itself is at 43 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at LUCHE-PRINGE, 14.1 km away at 92 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

An average of 725 mm of rain a year, spread over 114 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LE LUDE, 6.8 km away at 58 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 — 72060/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72060/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72060/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72060/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72176
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72283
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
Saulzet-le-Froid	63	302 km SE	284	19.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 50 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Paul-le-Gaultier	72	81 km N	285	18.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 93 %
Sainte-Gemme	36	120 km SE	262	16.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Vijon	36	196 km SE	300	14.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 92 %
Mérillac	22	208 km W	249	15.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Bars	24	289 km S	246	17.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 82 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Paul-le-Gaultier	72	81 km N	285	18.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 93 %
Sainte-Gemme	36	120 km SE	262	16.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Vijon	36	196 km SE	300	14.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 92 %
Mérillac	22	208 km W	249	15.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Bars	24	289 km S	246	17.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 82 % · humidity 79 %
Saulzet-le-Froid	63	302 km SE	284	19.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 50 % · 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 La Chapelle-aux-Choux'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
Bitry	58	214 km E	308	16.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Rayssac	81	457 km SE	234	13.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Chatain	86	174 km S	240	13.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Boussay	37	101 km SE	237	17.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Nottonville	28	109 km NE	279	9.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Sennevières	37	88 km SE	226	17.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %

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