Chenay

Sarthe · CU d'Alençon · INSEE 72076

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

No daily shops 17.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 40 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chenay (INSEE 72076) is in Sarthe (72), part of CU d'Alençon. Population 255 (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/72076-chenay

Vitality score

Vitality score 17.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 40 % of the 17,334 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	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.63

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

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 85 2023: 255 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 210 (2012) → 255 (2023): 21.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 134 (1990) → 255 (2023): 90.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 107, of which 3.7 % second homes and 7.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.6 km WFood shop — 2.9 km WPharmacy — 3.7 km WBakery — 4.3 km WGP — 4.3 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 (Alençon): 4.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Cerisé): 2.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Alençon): 4.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Alençon): 3.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Cerisé): 2.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 10.3

Days at or below 0 °C 60.1

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 10 days a year at or above 30 °C and 60 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LA FRESNAYE weather station, 4.3 km away at 146 m; the village itself is at 141 m. ^[10]

An average of 779 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LA FRESNAYE, 4.3 km away at 146 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 — 72076/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72076/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72076/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72076/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61001
INSEE BPE 2025 — 61077
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
Grosbois	25	474 km E	255	17.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 54 %
Lanthes	21	411 km E	256	14.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 95 %
Château-l'Hermitage	72	72 km S	256	17.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 61 %
Concevreux	02	284 km NE	256	17.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 97 %
Saint-Léger-Triey	21	408 km E	258	17.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 97 %
Treslon	51	282 km E	252	17.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 88 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Château-l'Hermitage	72	72 km S	256	17.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 61 %
Treslon	51	282 km E	252	17.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 88 %
Concevreux	02	284 km NE	256	17.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 97 %
Saint-Léger-Triey	21	408 km E	258	17.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 97 %
Lanthes	21	411 km E	256	14.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 95 %
Grosbois	25	474 km E	255	17.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 54 %

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