La Forêt-sur-Sèvre

Deux-Sèvres · CA du Bocage Bressuirais · INSEE 79123

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Partly served 45.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 56 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Forêt-sur-Sèvre (INSEE 79123) is in Deux-Sèvres (79), part of CA du Bocage Bressuirais. Population 2,250 (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 45.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 56 % of the 8,844 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	0.39	25	9.84
Social	0.39	20	7.87
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.39	10	3.93
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.44	10	4.39
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.6

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (SARL GRANDJEAN). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (API LA FORET SUR SEVRE). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (PONY TRUCK). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE BAR'IK). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE MONTIGNY · ECOLE PRIMAIRE). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JEAN-PAUL CHEVANCE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE THOMAS). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA FORET SUR SEVRE RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE LA FORÊT-SUR-SÈVRE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (GYMNASE OMNISPORTS). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (FLORENCE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant, 1 × Primary school (élémentaire).

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	SARL GRANDJEAN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	API LA FORET SUR SEVRE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	PONY TRUCK	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE BAR'IK	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE MONTIGNY · ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	JEAN-PAUL CHEVANCE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE THOMAS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA FORET SUR SEVRE RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE LA FORÊT-SUR-SÈVRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	GYMNASE OMNISPORTS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	2	FLORENCE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 2,407 peak 1982: 2,417 2023: 2,250 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,297 (2012) → 2,250 (2023): -2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 2,395 (1990) → 2,250 (2023): -6.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,137, of which 4 % second homes and 9.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (La Forêt-sur-Sèvre): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Forêt-sur-Sèvre): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (La Forêt-sur-Sèvre): 0.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (La Forêt-sur-Sèvre): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (La Forêt-sur-Sèvre): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.9

Days at or below 0 °C 38

Muggy days a summer 2.4

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 38 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the CIRIERE weather station, 6.9 km away at 200 m; the village itself is at 158 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at BRESSUIRE, 12.8 km away at 191 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

An average of 873 mm of rain a year, spread over 116 days — about 7.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at CERIZAY-SPC, 5.9 km away at 149 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79123/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79123/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79123/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79123/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 79123
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
Sixt-sur-Aff	35	155 km NW	2,273	63.4	Served	no figures
Marboz	01	454 km E	2,264	62.6	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Coulonges-sur-l'Autize	79	32 km S	2,345	61	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 80 % · humidity 86 %
Méounes-lès-Montrieux	83	649 km SE	2,277	63.2	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 13 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Ger	64	394 km S	2,137	56.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 64 %
Rives-d'Autise	85	39 km S	2,036	60.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Coulonges-sur-l'Autize	79	32 km S	2,345	61	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 80 % · humidity 86 %
Rives-d'Autise	85	39 km S	2,036	60.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Sixt-sur-Aff	35	155 km NW	2,273	63.4	Served	no figures
Ger	64	394 km S	2,137	56.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 64 %
Marboz	01	454 km E	2,264	62.6	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 66 % · humidity 93 %
Méounes-lès-Montrieux	83	649 km SE	2,277	63.2	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 13 % · winter 88 % · 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 La Forêt-sur-Sèvre'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
Rives-d'Autise	85	39 km S	2,036	60.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Couffé	44	85 km NW	2,535	58.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Branchs	37	119 km NE	2,637	51.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Chaillé-les-Marais	85	51 km SW	1,924	51.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Chevannes	89	331 km E	2,137	53.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Wingersheim les Quatre Bans	67	656 km E	2,342	53.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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