Le Grand-Village-Plage

Charente-Maritime · CC de l'Ile d'Oléron · INSEE 17485

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

Partly served 51.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 84 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Grand-Village-Plage (INSEE 17485) is in Charente-Maritime (17), part of CC de l'Ile d'Oléron. Population 1,108 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/17485-le-grand-village-plage

Vitality score

Vitality score 51.3/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 84 % of the 13,702 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	0.7	20	13.91
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.39	10	3.93
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0	5	0

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 1 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) (HERVE). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (LES CONSERVES DUPUY). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (GVP DISTRIBUTION). ^[3,4]

12 × Restaurant (LE RELAIS DES SALINES · LA GALOCHE · LA CHOZA · LE BAIN MARIE). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (O'MERMOZ). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE DES DUNES). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (BENOIST SALE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (LE GRAND VILLAGE PLAGE AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

2 × Swimming pool (PLAGE DE LA GIRAUDIERE · LA GRANDE PLAGE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

2 × Campsite (AZUREVA ILE D'OLERON · CAMPING LE MAINE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Primary school (élémentaire). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	HERVE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	LES CONSERVES DUPUY	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	GVP DISTRIBUTION	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	12	LE RELAIS DES SALINES · LA GALOCHE · LA CHOZA · LE BAIN MARIE	INSEE BPE 12 / INSEE SIRENE 16 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	O'MERMOZ	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE DES DUNES	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	BENOIST SALE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE GRAND V	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	LE GRAND VILLAGE PLAGE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	2	PLAGE DE LA GIRAUDIERE · LA GRANDE PLAGE	INSEE BPE 2 [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]
Campsite	2	AZUREVA ILE D'OLERON · CAMPING LE MAINE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 697 2023: 1,108 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,040 (2012) → 1,108 (2023): 6.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 718 (1990) → 1,108 (2023): 54.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,368, of which 58.6 % second homes and 1.8 % 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 (Le Grand-Village-Plage): 0.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Le Grand-Village-Plage): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Le Grand-Village-Plage): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Le Grand-Village-Plage): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Le Grand-Village-Plage): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 10.4

Days at or below 0 °C 10.6▸

Muggy days a summer 10.3▸

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 10 days a year at or above 30 °C and 11 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the CHATEAU D'OLERON weather station, 2.7 km away at 3 m; the village itself is at 9 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 10 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at CHATEAU D'OLERON, 2.7 km away at 3 m, over 19 summers. ^[9]

An average of 774 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at CHATEAU D'OLERON, 2.7 km away at 3 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

What property sold for

164 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 296,000 € — 3,550 € per m² of built surface. ^[10]

7 flats sold over the same window, at a median of 102,800 € — 3,148 € per m². ^[10]

The median across Charente-Maritime is 2,339 € per m², so this commune sits above it. ^[10]

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 — 17485/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17485/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17485/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 17485/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 17485
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
Étretat	76	441 km N	1,102	57.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 97 %
Laruns	64	326 km S	1,177	57.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 49 %
Saillagouse	66	460 km SE	1,155	57.4	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 0 % · humidity 29 %
Montmartin-sur-Mer	50	349 km N	1,425	47.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 80 % · humidity 36 %
Les Hôpitaux-Neufs	25	593 km E	967	72.7	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 0 % · humidity 29 %
Ars-en-Ré	17	44 km NW	1,314	50.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Ars-en-Ré	17	44 km NW	1,314	50.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Laruns	64	326 km S	1,177	57.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 49 %
Montmartin-sur-Mer	50	349 km N	1,425	47.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 80 % · humidity 36 %
Étretat	76	441 km N	1,102	57.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 97 %
Saillagouse	66	460 km SE	1,155	57.4	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 0 % · humidity 29 %
Les Hôpitaux-Neufs	25	593 km E	967	72.7	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 0 % · humidity 29 %

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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 Le Grand-Village-Plage'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
Ars-en-Ré	17	44 km NW	1,314	50.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
La Couarde-sur-Mer	17	40 km N	1,112	53.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Trojan-les-Bains	17	3.2 km SE	1,121	49.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Gilette	06	699 km E	1,627	42.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Sainte-Eulalie-en-Born	40	177 km S	1,443	46.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Tanneron	83	689 km E	1,750	43.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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