Nogent-le-Bernard

Sarthe · CC Maine Saosnois · INSEE 72220

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

Few services 20.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 12 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Nogent-le-Bernard (INSEE 72220) is in Sarthe (72), part of CC Maine Saosnois. Population 864 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/72220-nogent-le-bernard

Vitality score

Vitality score 20.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 12 % of the 15,210 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.61	10	6.12
Housing mix	0.75	5	3.73

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE CABU). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (NOGENT LE BERNARD AP). ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser (L'EFEE NATUREL). ^[4,3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE CABU	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	NOGENT LE BERNARD AP	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	1	L'EFEE NATUREL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 950 2023: 864 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 937 (2012) → 864 (2023): -7.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 777 (1990) → 864 (2023): 11.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 498, of which 12.7 % second homes and 11.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 4.6 km NWFood shop — 4.7 km NWGP — 4.7 km NWPharmacy — 4.7 km NW 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-Cosme-en-Vairais): 4.6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Cosme-en-Vairais): 4.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Cosme-en-Vairais): 4.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Cosme-en-Vairais): 4.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Nogent-le-Bernard): 0 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.3

Days at or below 0 °C 49.5

Muggy days a summer 1.2

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the MAROLLES LES BR weather station, 11.1 km away at 65 m; the village itself is at 115 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at LE LUART, 19.3 km away at 112 m, over 20 summers. ^[10]

An average of 743 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at SAINT COSME EN VAI, 5.7 km away at 115 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

What property sold for

85 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 118,000 € — 917 € per m² of built surface. ^[11]

The median across Sarthe is 1,300 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[11]

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 — 72220/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72220/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72220/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72220/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72276
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72220
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
Pruillé-l'Éguillé	72	45 km S	801	25.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 97 %
Fontaine-sous-Jouy	27	110 km NE	849	23.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Perceneige	89	216 km E	940	22.7	Few services	no figures
Archingeay	17	272 km S	765	24.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 97 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Paul-du-Vernay	14	140 km NW	831	24.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Élincourt-Sainte-Marguerite	60	222 km NE	922	24.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Pruillé-l'Éguillé	72	45 km S	801	25.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 97 %
Fontaine-sous-Jouy	27	110 km NE	849	23.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Paul-du-Vernay	14	140 km NW	831	24.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Perceneige	89	216 km E	940	22.7	Few services	no figures
Élincourt-Sainte-Marguerite	60	222 km NE	922	24.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Archingeay	17	272 km S	765	24.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 97 % · 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 Nogent-le-Bernard'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
Orphin	78	103 km E	875	21.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Avezé	72	14 km E	690	22.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Chassenon	16	266 km S	836	24.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Montaigut-le-Blanc	63	355 km SE	927	35.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Fleury-en-Bière	77	154 km E	652	24.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Talmontiers	60	157 km NE	643	20.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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