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Les Mées

Sarthe · CC Maine Saosnois · INSEE 72192

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

No daily shops 9.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 20 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Les Mées (INSEE 72192) 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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/72192-les-mees

Vitality score

Vitality score 9.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 20 % 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.38103.8
Housing mix0.8454.21

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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 186 2023: 103 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 103 (2012) → 103 (2023): 0 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 117 (1990) → 103 (2023): -12 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 63, of which 7.9 % second homes and 9.5 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 4.6 km SE (Courgains)GP — 6.8 km N (Neufchâtel-en-Saosnois)Pharmacy — 6.8 km N (Neufchâtel-en-Saosnois)Bakery — 6.9 km N (Neufchâtel-en-Saosnois)Food shop — 7.0 km N (Neufchâtel-en-Saosnois)
Primary school — 4.6 km SEGP — 6.8 km NPharmacy — 6.8 km NBakery — 6.9 km NFood shop — 7.0 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 (Neufchâtel-en-Saosnois): 6.9 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Neufchâtel-en-Saosnois): 7 km to the north (straight line). [8]

GP (Neufchâtel-en-Saosnois): 6.8 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Neufchâtel-en-Saosnois): 6.8 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Courgains): 4.6 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 10 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 COMMERVEIL_SAPC weather station, 9 km away at 105 m; the village itself is at 104 m. [10]

An average of 823 mm of rain a year, spread over 129 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at ANCINNES, 7.3 km away at 179 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72192/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72192/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72192/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72192/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 72215
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 72104
  10. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Reboursin36180 km SE10211No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 81 %
Vincy-Reuil-et-Magny02320 km NE1017.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 47 %
Bax31572 km S10116.7No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 36 % · winter 86 %
Luc-Armau64544 km S10410.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 72 % · winter 81 %
Landerrouet-sur-Ségur33408 km S1029.4No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 56 % · winter 99 %
Empuré16255 km S1009.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 74 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Reboursin36180 km SE10211No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 81 %
Empuré16255 km S1009.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 74 %
Vincy-Reuil-et-Magny02320 km NE1017.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 47 %
Landerrouet-sur-Ségur33408 km S1029.4No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 56 % · winter 99 %
Luc-Armau64544 km S10410.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 72 % · winter 81 %
Bax31572 km S10116.7No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 36 % · winter 86 %

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