Rouessé-Vassé

Sarthe · CC de la Champagne Conlinoise et du Pays de Sillé · INSEE 72255

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

Few services 28.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 36 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Rouessé-Vassé (INSEE 72255) is in Sarthe (72), part of CC de la Champagne Conlinoise et du Pays de Sillé. Population 785 (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/72255-rouesse-vasse

Vitality score

Vitality score 28.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 36 % of the 15,759 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	0.55	10	5.49
Housing mix	0.86	5	4.29

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE BROC). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE NICOLAS GRIPPON). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (ROUESSE VASSE RP). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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 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	LE BROC	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE NICOLAS GRIPPON	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	ROUESSE VASSE 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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 822 2023: 785 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 802 (2012) → 785 (2023): -2.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 748 (1990) → 785 (2023): 4.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 422, of which 7.1 % second homes and 10.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 4.6 km SBakery — 5.6 km NGP — 5.7 km NEPharmacy — 5.7 km NE 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 (Vimartin-sur-Orthe): 5.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Parennes): 4.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Sillé-le-Guillaume): 5.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Sillé-le-Guillaume): 5.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Rouessé-Vassé): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8.1

Days at or below 0 °C 23.7

Muggy days a summer 0.9

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 8 days a year at or above 30 °C and 24 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ROUESSE-VASSE weather station, 3 km away at 206 m; the village itself is at 147 m. ^[12]

The village sits 59 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ROUESSE-VASSE, 3 km away at 206 m, over 21 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 59 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 810 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ROUESSE-VASSE, 3 km away at 206 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72255/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72255/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72255/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72255/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 53249
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72229
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72334
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72255
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
Bonnac	09	573 km S	801	34.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 100 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Rémy-Boscrocourt	76	236 km NE	803	30.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 84 %
Sansais	79	212 km S	760	28.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Pierreclos	71	421 km SE	846	28.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-de-Surieu	38	496 km SE	757	33.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Étienne-d'Orthe	40	514 km S	740	33.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 89 % · humidity 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sansais	79	212 km S	760	28.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Rémy-Boscrocourt	76	236 km NE	803	30.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 84 %
Pierreclos	71	421 km SE	846	28.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-de-Surieu	38	496 km SE	757	33.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Étienne-d'Orthe	40	514 km S	740	33.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 89 % · humidity 0 %
Bonnac	09	573 km S	801	34.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 100 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Rouessé-Vassé'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
Moyenneville	80	256 km NE	693	30.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Rémy-du-Plain	35	104 km W	818	39.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Bruc-sur-Aff	35	141 km W	855	36.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Séglin	35	139 km W	610	36.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Lynde	59	341 km NE	783	34.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Aubin-sur-Quillebeuf	27	154 km N	749	32.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

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