Thoiré-sur-Dinan

Sarthe · CC Loir-Lucé-Bercé · INSEE 72356

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

Few services 23.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 47 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Thoiré-sur-Dinan (INSEE 72356) is in Sarthe (72), part of CC Loir-Lucé-Bercé. Population 399 (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 23.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 47 % of the 18,000 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.69	10	6.91
Housing mix	0.56	5	2.8

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 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”.

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

2 × Restaurant (LE DINAN · O SAULE). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (THOIRE SUR DINAN AP). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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	2	LE DINAN · O SAULE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	1	THOIRE SUR DINAN AP	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 [3,4]
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: 442 peak 2012: 451 2023: 399 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 451 (2012) → 399 (2023): -11.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 335 (1990) → 399 (2023): 19.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 254, of which 22 % second homes and 6.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.4 km WFood shop — 4.9 km NWBakery — 5.1 km EGP — 7.5 km SPharmacy — 9.8 km E 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 (Chahaignes): 5.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Jupilles): 4.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Montval-sur-Loir): 7.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (La Chartre-sur-le-Loir): 9.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Beaumont-Pied-de-Bœuf): 3.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 13.6

Days at or below 0 °C 48.3

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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 48 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the JUPILLES weather station, 4.7 km away at 148 m; the village itself is at 104 m. ^[13]

An average of 789 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at JUPILLES, 4.7 km away at 148 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72356/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72356/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72356/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 72356/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72052
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72153
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72071
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72068
INSEE BPE 2025 — 72028
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
Saint-Projet	46	344 km S	363	23.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 96 %
Haut-du-Them-Château-Lambert	70	469 km E	449	20.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 96 %
Dœuil-sur-le-Mignon	17	196 km SW	373	23.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 99 %
Fouqueure	16	210 km S	429	19.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 59 % · winter 96 %
Ménil-Hubert-sur-Orne	61	138 km NW	472	20.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 93 %
Montigny-Mornay-Villeneuve-sur-Vingeanne	21	374 km E	381	22.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 62 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Ménil-Hubert-sur-Orne	61	138 km NW	472	20.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 93 %
Dœuil-sur-le-Mignon	17	196 km SW	373	23.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 99 %
Fouqueure	16	210 km S	429	19.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 59 % · winter 96 %
Saint-Projet	46	344 km S	363	23.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 96 %
Montigny-Mornay-Villeneuve-sur-Vingeanne	21	374 km E	381	22.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 62 %
Haut-du-Them-Château-Lambert	70	469 km E	449	20.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 96 %

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