Saint-Denis-d'Orques

Sarthe · CC LBN Communauté · INSEE 72278

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

Few services 32.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 52 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Denis-d'Orques (INSEE 72278) is in Sarthe (72), part of CC LBN Communauté. Population 760 (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 32.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 52 % of the 15,973 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.6	10	5.97
Housing mix	0.75	5	3.73

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 1 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]

2 × Restaurant (PAUL · RELAIS DU BOIS-JOLI). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINT DENIS D ORQUES AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE). ^[3]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[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]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	2	PAUL · RELAIS DU BOIS-JOLI	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	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	SAINT DENIS D ORQUES AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 887 2023: 760 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 869 (2012) → 760 (2023): -12.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 693 (1990) → 760 (2023): 9.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 482, of which 12.7 % second homes and 13.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 7.2 km SEGP — 7.2 km SEBakery — 7.3 km SEPharmacy — 7.3 km SE 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 (Brûlon): 7.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Brûlon): 7.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Brûlon): 7.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Brûlon): 7.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Denis-d'Orques): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14.6

Days at or below 0 °C 40

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the EPINEU LE CHEVR weather station, 9.2 km away at 122 m; the village itself is at 132 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at ROUESSE-VASSE, 12.9 km away at 206 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 74 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 821 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at EPINEU LE CHEVR, 9.2 km away at 122 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 — 72278/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72278/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72278/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72278/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72050
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72278
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
Asprières	12	429 km SE	753	29.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 84 %
Bourneau	85	170 km S	710	31.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Crayssac	46	410 km S	844	34.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 84 % · humidity 50 %
La Celle-Saint-Cyr	89	265 km E	840	31.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Cazedarnes	34	572 km SE	682	38.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 85 % · humidity 50 %
Champtercier	04	661 km SE	750	38.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bourneau	85	170 km S	710	31.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
La Celle-Saint-Cyr	89	265 km E	840	31.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Crayssac	46	410 km S	844	34.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 84 % · humidity 50 %
Asprières	12	429 km SE	753	29.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 84 %
Cazedarnes	34	572 km SE	682	38.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 85 % · humidity 50 %
Champtercier	04	661 km SE	750	38.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Saint-Denis-d'Orques'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
Bourneau	85	170 km S	710	31.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Thorée-les-Pins	72	45 km SE	744	34.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Pageas	87	279 km S	644	32.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Bayel	10	375 km E	738	29.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Boistrudan	35	84 km W	728	38.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Pouzay	37	121 km SE	867	32.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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