Étival-lès-le-Mans

Sarthe · CC du Val de Sarthe · INSEE 72127

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Few services 35.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 28 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Étival-lès-le-Mans (INSEE 72127) is in Sarthe (72), part of CC du Val de Sarthe. Population 1,826 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/72127-etival-les-le-mans

Vitality score

Vitality score 35.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 28 % of the 10,207 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.39	10	3.93
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.48	10	4.81
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.95

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA MIE D'ETIVAL). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (LES RILLETTES DE BOEUF). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (BAR EPICERIE L'ETIVAL). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (BENOIT LARDEUX, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE D ETIVAL LES LE MANS). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (ETIVAL LES LE MANS LPR RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant. ^[4,3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LA MIE D'ETIVAL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	LES RILLETTES DE BOEUF	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	BAR EPICERIE L'ETIVAL	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	BENOIT LARDEUX, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE D ETIVAL LES LE MANS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	ETIVAL LES LE MANS LPR RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	2		INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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: 571 peak 2007: 2,100 2023: 1,826 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,991 (2012) → 1,826 (2023): -8.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,861 (1990) → 1,826 (2023): -1.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 835, of which 0.5 % second homes and 2.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Étival-lès-le-Mans): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Étival-lès-le-Mans): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Étival-lès-le-Mans): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Étival-lès-le-Mans): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Étival-lès-le-Mans): 0.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 10.4

Days at or below 0 °C 47.9

Muggy days a summer 1.3

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 48 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the ROUILLON weather station, 6.5 km away at 90 m; the village itself is at 51 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at LE MANS, 8 km away at 51 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

An average of 708 mm of rain a year, spread over 116 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at SOULIGNE FLACE, 5.4 km away at 64 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72127/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72127/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72127/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72127/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72127
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
Louvigné-de-Bais	35	106 km W	1,890	47.6	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Le Drennec	29	336 km W	1,896	42	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Perrignier	74	514 km E	1,905	55.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Crouy-sur-Ourcq	77	254 km NE	1,811	53.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Marbache	54	453 km E	1,665	33	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Yvré-le-Pôlin	72	16 km S	1,717	33.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Yvré-le-Pôlin	72	16 km S	1,717	33.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Louvigné-de-Bais	35	106 km W	1,890	47.6	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Crouy-sur-Ourcq	77	254 km NE	1,811	53.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Le Drennec	29	336 km W	1,896	42	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Marbache	54	453 km E	1,665	33	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Perrignier	74	514 km E	1,905	55.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · 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 Étival-lès-le-Mans'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
Perrignier	74	514 km E	1,905	55.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Grandfresnoy	60	245 km NE	1,829	35.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Cherisy	28	132 km NE	1,842	50.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Roquetoire	62	343 km NE	1,970	48.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Neuville-Saint-Vaast	62	330 km NE	1,628	37.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Serquigny	27	136 km N	1,754	55	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

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