Monhoudou

Sarthe · CC Maine Saosnois · INSEE 72202

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

No daily shops 12.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 25 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Monhoudou (INSEE 72202) is in Sarthe (72), part of CC Maine Saosnois. Population 214 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 12.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 25 % of the 16,393 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	0.77	10	7.66
Housing mix	0.64	5	3.19

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 counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hairdresser.

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]
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: 320 2023: 214 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 224 (2012) → 214 (2023): -4.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 169 (1990) → 214 (2023): 26.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 127, of which 18.1 % second homes and 7.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.3 km WGP — 3.4 km SFood shop — 3.6 km SPharmacy — 3.8 km SBakery — 3.9 km S 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 (Marolles-les-Braults): 3.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Marolles-les-Braults): 3.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Marolles-les-Braults): 3.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Marolles-les-Braults): 3.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Courgains): 3.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 10.1

Days at or below 0 °C 34.2

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 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, 3.9 km away at 105 m; the village itself is at 123 m. ^[10]

An average of 718 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at COMMERVEIL_SAPC, 3.9 km away at 105 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 — 72202/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72202/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72202/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72202/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72189
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72104
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
La Belliole	89	206 km E	216	15.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 84 %
Bief-du-Fourg	39	464 km E	218	15.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 0 %
Thibivillers	60	161 km NE	217	13.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 80 %
Coulangeron	89	244 km E	212	15.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 92 %
Struth	67	514 km E	213	10	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 64 %
Anchamps	08	366 km NE	216	10.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 61 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Thibivillers	60	161 km NE	217	13.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 80 %
La Belliole	89	206 km E	216	15.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 84 %
Coulangeron	89	244 km E	212	15.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 92 %
Anchamps	08	366 km NE	216	10.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 61 %
Bief-du-Fourg	39	464 km E	218	15.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 0 %
Struth	67	514 km E	213	10	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 64 %

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