Louzes

Sarthe · CC Maine Saosnois · INSEE 72171

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 8.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 17 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Louzes (INSEE 72171) is in Sarthe (72), part of CC Maine Saosnois. Population 103 (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 8.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 17 % of the 10,844 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.4	10	4.04
Housing mix	0.71	5	3.55

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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: 160 2023: 103 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 99 (2012) → 103 (2023): 4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 114 (1990) → 103 (2023): -9.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 76, of which 14.5 % second homes and 9.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.9 km NWGP — 3.9 km NWFood shop — 4.0 km NWBakery — 7.1 km SWPharmacy — 7.3 km SW 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 (Neufchâtel-en-Saosnois): 7.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Villeneuve-en-Perseigne): 4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Villeneuve-en-Perseigne): 3.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Neufchâtel-en-Saosnois): 7.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Villeneuve-en-Perseigne): 3.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8.3

Days at or below 0 °C 61.4

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 8 days a year at or above 30 °C and 61 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LA FRESNAYE weather station, 6.6 km away at 146 m; the village itself is at 197 m. ^[10]

The village sits 51 m above 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 779 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LA FRESNAYE, 6.6 km away at 146 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 — 72171/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72171/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72171/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72171/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72215
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72137
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
Planques	62	260 km NE	104	11.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 68 %
Chaume-lès-Baigneux	21	331 km E	101	11.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 97 %
Laveraët	32	545 km S	103	7.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 56 % · winter 45 %
Esplas	09	590 km S	104	15.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 36 % · winter 92 %
Bustince-Iriberry	64	595 km S	102	9.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 62 % · winter 62 %
Gensac	82	500 km S	102	7.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 31 % · winter 53 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Planques	62	260 km NE	104	11.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 68 %
Chaume-lès-Baigneux	21	331 km E	101	11.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 97 %
Gensac	82	500 km S	102	7.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 31 % · winter 53 %
Laveraët	32	545 km S	103	7.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 56 % · winter 45 %
Esplas	09	590 km S	104	15.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 36 % · winter 92 %
Bustince-Iriberry	64	595 km S	102	9.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 62 % · winter 62 %

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