Lhomme

Sarthe · CC Loir-Lucé-Bercé · INSEE 72161

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

Partly served 51.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 88 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lhomme (INSEE 72161) is in Sarthe (72), part of CC Loir-Lucé-Bercé. Population 933 (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/72161-lhomme

Vitality score

Vitality score 51.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 88 % of the 14,747 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	0.63	25	15.8
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.61	10	6.08
Housing mix	0.79	5	3.93

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 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 PEPITE GOURMANDE). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (LA BOUCHERIE DES AMOUREUX). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (CHEZ FRED). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (LHOMME RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (LHOMME ET LA FEMME). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × GP (médecin généraliste).

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LA PEPITE GOURMANDE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	LA BOUCHERIE DES AMOUREUX	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	2	CHEZ FRED	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE LOUISE MICHEL	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	1	LHOMME RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	LHOMME ET LA FEMME	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 832 peak 2007: 963 2023: 933 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 868 (2012) → 933 (2023): 7.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 842 (1990) → 933 (2023): 10.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 580, of which 10.7 % second homes and 7.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 1.7 km EPharmacy — 2.0 km SE 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 (Lhomme): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lhomme): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (La Chartre-sur-le-Loir): 1.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (La Chartre-sur-le-Loir): 2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Lhomme): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.3

Days at or below 0 °C 33.8

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 34 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the JUPILLES weather station, 11.2 km away at 148 m; the village itself is at 55 m. ^[10]

The village sits 93 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[10]

An average of 789 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at JUPILLES, 11.2 km away at 148 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 — 72161/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72161/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72161/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72161/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72161
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72068
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
Vallières-les-Grandes	41	57 km SE	943	59.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 77 %
Saint-Victor	07	431 km SE	968	53.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 76 %
Sambin	41	65 km SE	862	53.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 70 %
Saint-Maurice-sur-Fessard	45	156 km E	1,161	39.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 77 %
Ruffey-sur-Seille	39	389 km E	738	50.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 68 %
Caudecoste	47	404 km S	1,127	38.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 33 % · winter 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Vallières-les-Grandes	41	57 km SE	943	59.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 77 %
Sambin	41	65 km SE	862	53.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 70 %
Saint-Maurice-sur-Fessard	45	156 km E	1,161	39.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 77 %
Ruffey-sur-Seille	39	389 km E	738	50.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 68 %
Caudecoste	47	404 km S	1,127	38.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 33 % · winter 86 %
Saint-Victor	07	431 km SE	968	53.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 76 %

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