Marolles-lès-Saint-Calais

Sarthe · CC des Vallées de la Braye et de l'Anille · INSEE 72190

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

No daily shops 18/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 39 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Marolles-lès-Saint-Calais (INSEE 72190) is in Sarthe (72), part of CC des Vallées de la Braye et de l'Anille. Population 284 (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 18/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 39 % of the 17,708 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.45	10	4.47
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.55

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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	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	1	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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: 246 peak 1990: 300 2023: 284 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 279 (2012) → 284 (2023): 1.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 300 (1990) → 284 (2023): -5.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 155, of which 4.5 % second homes and 8.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 1.8 km WPrimary school — 2.6 km WBakery — 2.9 km WGP — 3.0 km WPharmacy — 3.1 km W 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-Calais): 2.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Calais): 1.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Calais): 3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Calais): 3.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Calais): 2.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 13.1

Days at or below 0 °C 43.7

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 44 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the SAINTE CEROTTE weather station, 7.3 km away at 157 m; the village itself is at 135 m. ^[9]

An average of 738 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at SAINTE CEROTTE, 7.3 km away at 157 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72190/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72190/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72190/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72190/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72269
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
Higuères-Souye	64	511 km S	284	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 85 %
Moulines	50	152 km NW	280	17.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 97 %
L'Hôpital-le-Mercier	71	297 km SE	294	18.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 70 %
Saint-Eugène	17	280 km S	288	17.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 99 %
Saint-Nicolas-des-Bois	61	86 km NW	285	20.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 95 %
Saint-Félix-de-Foncaude	33	369 km S	293	20.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 56 % · winter 81 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Nicolas-des-Bois	61	86 km NW	285	20.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 95 %
Moulines	50	152 km NW	280	17.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 97 %
Saint-Eugène	17	280 km S	288	17.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 99 %
L'Hôpital-le-Mercier	71	297 km SE	294	18.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 70 %
Saint-Félix-de-Foncaude	33	369 km S	293	20.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 56 % · winter 81 %
Higuères-Souye	64	511 km S	284	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 85 %

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