Malicorne-sur-Sarthe

Sarthe · CC du Val de Sarthe · INSEE 72179

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

Partly served 53.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 82 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Malicorne-sur-Sarthe (INSEE 72179) is in Sarthe (72), part of CC du Val de Sarthe. Population 1,854 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 53.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 82 % of the 10,103 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	0.47	25	11.83
Social	0.79	20	15.82
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.62	10	6.18
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.56

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE TERESE). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

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

6 × Restaurant (LA PIZZA A EMPORTER · L'ARDOISE · SALON ARTHE · MAC'LICORNE · CREPERIE LA PETITE AUBERGE). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (AU RENDEZ VOUS DES PECHEURS). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE BERNARD PALISSY · ECOLE SAINTE THERESE DDEC). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

5 × Hairdresser (ROSELYNE COIFFURE A DOMICILE · ALINE'R · L'ATELIER DE FLORIANE · LA P'TITE COIFFEUSE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Hairdresser.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE TERESE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	COCCINELLE EXPRESS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	6	LA PIZZA A EMPORTER · L'ARDOISE · SALON ARTHE · MAC'LICORNE · CREPERIE LA PETITE AUBERGE	INSEE BPE 6 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	AU RENDEZ VOUS DES PECHEURS	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE BERNARD PALISSY · ECOLE SAINTE THERESE DDEC	INSEE BPE 2 [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	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	5	ROSELYNE COIFFURE A DOMICILE · ALINE'R · L'ATELIER DE FLORIANE · LA P'TITE COIFFEUSE	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [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 SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

Weekly market (reported, unverified): Friday. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 1,795 peak 2012: 1,953 2023: 1,854 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,953 (2012) → 1,854 (2023): -5.1 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,659 (1990) → 1,854 (2023): 11.8 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,079, of which 4.4 % second homes and 12.6 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 4.8 km EPharmacy — 5.0 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 (Malicorne-sur-Sarthe): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Malicorne-sur-Sarthe): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Mézeray): 4.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Mézeray): 5 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Malicorne-sur-Sarthe): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14.2

Days at or below 0 °C 40.2

Muggy days a summer 2

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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SABLE SUR SARTH weather station, 16.7 km away at 41 m; the village itself is at 37 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at LUCHE-PRINGE, 16.9 km away at 92 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 55 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 751 mm of rain a year, spread over 116 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at VILLAINES-SOUS-MALICORNE, 7.7 km away at 87 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

The market day comes from DATAtourisme and has not been confirmed by a second source. ^[5]

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72179/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2025-11— https://data.datatourisme.fr/49/61ef3e3a-441a-3a83-a4e6-81f7d5c453cd— “Marché le vendredi matin à Malicorne-sur-Sarthe.”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72179/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72179/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72179/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72179
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72195
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
Saâcy-sur-Marne	77	275 km NE	1,878	49.6	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Auzat-la-Combelle	63	369 km SE	1,956	47.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 64 % · humidity 86 %
Tuffé Val de la Chéronne	72	56 km NE	1,680	43.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Germain-en-Coglès	35	110 km NW	2,096	41.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Montans	81	465 km S	1,558	45	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 99 % · humidity 64 %
Courpalay	77	244 km NE	1,610	44.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Tuffé Val de la Chéronne	72	56 km NE	1,680	43.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Germain-en-Coglès	35	110 km NW	2,096	41.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Courpalay	77	244 km NE	1,610	44.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saâcy-sur-Marne	77	275 km NE	1,878	49.6	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Auzat-la-Combelle	63	369 km SE	1,956	47.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 64 % · humidity 86 %
Montans	81	465 km S	1,558	45	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 99 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Malicorne-sur-Sarthe'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
Tuffé Val de la Chéronne	72	56 km NE	1,680	43.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Courpalay	77	244 km NE	1,610	44.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Malô-du-Bois	85	116 km SW	1,612	47.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Neuville-sur-Sarthe	72	36 km NE	2,463	49.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Francueil	37	104 km SE	1,461	42.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Beignon	56	157 km W	1,944	49.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

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