Écorpain

Sarthe · CC des Vallées de la Braye et de l'Anille · INSEE 72125

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

No daily shops 17/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 33 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Écorpain (INSEE 72125) is in Sarthe (72), part of CC des Vallées de la Braye et de l'Anille. Population 296 (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 17/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 33 % of the 17,802 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.44	10	4.4
Housing mix	0.74	5	3.69

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 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, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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 [3,4]
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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE 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: 433 2023: 296 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 309 (2012) → 296 (2023): -4.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 315 (1990) → 296 (2023): -6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 160, of which 13.1 % second homes and 10.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 3.1 km EFood shop — 6.5 km EPharmacy — 6.6 km EGP — 6.8 km E 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 (Montaillé): 3.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Calais): 6.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Calais): 6.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Calais): 6.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Écorpain): 0.3 km to the east (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, 4.2 km away at 157 m; the village itself is at 162 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at LE LUART, 16.2 km away at 112 m, over 20 summers. ^[11]

An average of 738 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SAINTE CEROTTE, 4.2 km away at 157 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 — 72125/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72125/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72125/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72125/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72204
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72269
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72125
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
Viel-Saint-Remy	08	339 km NE	302	20.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Esperce	31	519 km S	296	23.7	Few services	no figures
Rebourguil	12	479 km S	296	19.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Le Faget	31	494 km S	297	15.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 93 % · humidity 57 %
Ratières	26	450 km SE	275	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Ganties	31	542 km S	302	19.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Viel-Saint-Remy	08	339 km NE	302	20.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Ratières	26	450 km SE	275	21.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Rebourguil	12	479 km S	296	19.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Le Faget	31	494 km S	297	15.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 93 % · humidity 57 %
Esperce	31	519 km S	296	23.7	Few services	no figures
Ganties	31	542 km S	302	19.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Écorpain'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
Saint-Laurent-des-Bois	41	60 km E	330	23.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Mary	71	325 km SE	281	20.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Charleville	51	243 km NE	262	22.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Quentin-la-Chabanne	23	257 km SE	362	14.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Bournan	37	98 km S	277	29.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Loup-du-Gast	53	105 km NW	313	10.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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