Ligron

Sarthe · CC du Pays Fléchois · INSEE 72163

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

Few services 23.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 40 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ligron (INSEE 72163) is in Sarthe (72), part of CC du Pays Fléchois. Population 494 (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/72163-ligron

Vitality score

Vitality score 23.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 40 % of the 17,795 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	0.96	10	9.62
Housing mix	0.86	5	4.29

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 PRIMAIRE 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 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)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE 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: 406 peak 2017: 504 2023: 494 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 490 (2012) → 494 (2023): 0.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 338 (1990) → 494 (2023): 46.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 226, of which 7.1 % second homes and 5.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.6 km SWGP — 6.3 km NFood shop — 6.4 km NPharmacy — 6.7 km N 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 (Clermont-Créans): 2.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Mézeray): 6.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Mézeray): 6.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Mézeray): 6.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Ligron): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14.8

Days at or below 0 °C 30.6

Muggy days a summer 1.4

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 31 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LUCHE-PRINGE weather station, 8.7 km away at 92 m; the village itself is at 97 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at LUCHE-PRINGE, 8.7 km away at 92 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

An average of 658 mm of rain a year, spread over 111 days — about 5.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LUCHE-PRINGE, 8.7 km away at 92 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 — 72163/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72163/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72163/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72163/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72084
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72195
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72163
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
Pommeréval	76	238 km NE	496	24.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Loubieng	64	486 km S	491	20.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 95 % · humidity 0 %
Douvrend	76	252 km N	500	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Souzy-la-Briche	91	180 km NE	503	23.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Marchéville	28	114 km NE	507	22.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Trémaouézan	29	327 km W	483	22	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Marchéville	28	114 km NE	507	22.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Souzy-la-Briche	91	180 km NE	503	23.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Pommeréval	76	238 km NE	496	24.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Douvrend	76	252 km N	500	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Trémaouézan	29	327 km W	483	22	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Loubieng	64	486 km S	491	20.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 95 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Ligron'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-Brice	53	35 km W	517	20.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Quentin-sur-Indrois	37	99 km SE	484	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Illiers-le-Bois	78	172 km NE	449	24.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Denis-le-Thiboult	76	212 km NE	502	19.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Nuillé-le-Jalais	72	45 km NE	528	24.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Macaire-du-Bois	49	76 km S	439	20.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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