Mont-Saint-Jean

Sarthe · CC de la Champagne Conlinoise et du Pays de Sillé · INSEE 72211

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

Few services 25.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 37 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Mont-Saint-Jean (INSEE 72211) is in Sarthe (72), part of CC de la Champagne Conlinoise et du Pays de Sillé. Population 628 (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/72211-mont-saint-jean

Vitality score

Vitality score 25.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 37 % of the 16,827 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.48	10	4.84
Housing mix	0.58	5	2.89

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 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 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”.

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

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LES QUATRE SAISONS). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (MONT SAINT JEAN RP). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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]
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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LES QUATRE SAISONS	INSEE BPE 1 [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	MONT SAINT JEAN RP	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	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: 925 2023: 628 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 691 (2012) → 628 (2023): -9.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 638 (1990) → 628 (2023): -1.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 432, of which 21.1 % second homes and 14.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 5.6 km EBakery — 7.0 km SGP — 7.3 km SPharmacy — 7.3 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 (Sillé-le-Guillaume): 7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Montreuil-le-Chétif): 5.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Sillé-le-Guillaume): 7.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Sillé-le-Guillaume): 7.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Mont-Saint-Jean): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 7.1

Days at or below 0 °C 27.8

Muggy days a summer 0.8

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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 28 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ROUESSE-VASSE weather station, 14.7 km away at 206 m; the village itself is at 200 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ROUESSE-VASSE, 14.7 km away at 206 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

An average of 766 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 6.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SAINT LEONARD D, 10.3 km away at 127 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

What property sold for

71 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 86,000 € — 743 € per m² of built surface. ^[12]

The median across Sarthe is 1,300 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[12]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72211/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72211/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72211/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72211/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72334
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72209
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72211
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Saint-Hilaire-en-Lignières	18	241 km SE	504	25.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 59 % · humidity 64 %
Sillars	86	214 km S	584	26.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Pionnat	23	282 km SE	721	27.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 35 % · humidity 100 %
Champgenéteux	53	19 km W	492	28.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Rom	79	218 km S	802	30.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 54 % · winter 77 %
Queaux	86	221 km S	586	27.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 70 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Champgenéteux	53	19 km W	492	28.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Sillars	86	214 km S	584	26.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Rom	79	218 km S	802	30.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 54 % · winter 77 %
Queaux	86	221 km S	586	27.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 70 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Hilaire-en-Lignières	18	241 km SE	504	25.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 59 % · humidity 64 %
Pionnat	23	282 km SE	721	27.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 35 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Mont-Saint-Jean'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
Saint-Denis-le-Gast	50	118 km NW	530	18.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Notre-Dame-de-Cenilly	50	119 km NW	637	33.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Tugdual	56	240 km W	376	24.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Merléac	22	207 km W	481	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Sacey	50	103 km W	508	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Collorec	29	271 km W	588	28.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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