Fatines

Sarthe · CU Le Mans Métropole · INSEE 72129

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

Few services 32.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 43 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Fatines (INSEE 72129) is in Sarthe (72), part of CU Le Mans Métropole. Population 929 (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/72129-fatines

Vitality score

Vitality score 32.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 43 % of the 14,789 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	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.98	5	4.92

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 × Café / bar (LE FATINOIS). ^[4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE FATINOIS	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE ANDRE GRASSIN	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: 274 2023: 929 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 796 (2012) → 929 (2023): 16.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 522 (1990) → 929 (2023): 78 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 389, of which 0.8 % second homes and 6.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.3 km NFood shop — 2.4 km NGP — 2.7 km SEPharmacy — 4.5 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 (Saint-Corneille): 2.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Corneille): 2.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Mars-la-Brière): 2.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Montfort-le-Gesnois): 4.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Fatines): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.8

Days at or below 0 °C 58

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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 58 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the SAINT CORNEILLE weather station, 3.7 km away at 62 m; the village itself is at 61 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at LE MANS, 15.9 km away at 51 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 768 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at SAINT CORNEILLE, 3.7 km away at 62 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72129/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72129/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72129/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72129/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72275
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72300
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72241
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72129
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
Berchères-Saint-Germain	28	100 km NE	905	32.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Les Baux-Sainte-Croix	27	117 km NE	871	23.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Marquefave	31	530 km S	991	29.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 73 % · humidity 50 %
Fauillet	47	402 km S	864	27.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 72 % · humidity 50 %
Sort-en-Chalosse	40	495 km S	885	29.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 66 % · humidity 0 %
Garnay	28	104 km NE	1,019	20.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Berchères-Saint-Germain	28	100 km NE	905	32.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Garnay	28	104 km NE	1,019	20.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Les Baux-Sainte-Croix	27	117 km NE	871	23.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Fauillet	47	402 km S	864	27.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 72 % · humidity 50 %
Sort-en-Chalosse	40	495 km S	885	29.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 66 % · humidity 0 %
Marquefave	31	530 km S	991	29.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 73 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Fatines'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
Parigny-les-Vaux	58	235 km SE	964	26.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Souillé	72	15 km NW	797	32.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Laurent-d'Andenay	71	346 km SE	961	19	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Paucourt	45	182 km E	927	21.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Préval	72	30 km NE	656	30.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Chassenard	03	327 km SE	1,023	22	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %

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