Saint-Maixant

Gironde · CC du Sud Gironde · INSEE 33438

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

Partly served 43.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 50 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Maixant (INSEE 33438) is in Gironde (33), part of CC du Sud Gironde. Population 2,057 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/33438-saint-maixant

Vitality score

Vitality score 43.5/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 50 % of the 9,438 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.86

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 2 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) (EMMASO). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (J.L. JEAN). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (RIC&CO · CABANE DE L'OUBLI). ^[3,4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE COURS LA MERCI NOTRE DAME · ECOLE PRIMAIRE FRANCOIS MAURIAC). ^[3]

1 × Collège (ECOLE SECONDAIRE PRIVEE COURS LA MERCI NOTRE DAME). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (DANIEL FIEVET, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

1 × Hairdresser (COIFFURE BEA). ^[3,4]

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

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	EMMASO	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	1	J.L. JEAN	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	2	RIC&CO · CABANE DE L'OUBLI	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)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE COURS LA MERCI NOTRE DAME · ECOLE PRIMAIRE FRANCOIS MAURIAC	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	1	ECOLE SECONDAIRE PRIVEE COURS LA MERCI NOTRE DAME	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	DANIEL FIEVET, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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 MAIXANT 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	1	COIFFURE BEA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 925 2023: 2,057 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,691 (2012) → 2,057 (2023): 21.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,349 (1990) → 2,057 (2023): 52.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 903, of which 1.4 % second homes and 6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, Pharmacy Food shop — 0.5 km SEGP — 1.3 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 (Saint-Maixant): 0.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Maixant): 0.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Verdelais): 1.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Verdelais): 0.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Maixant): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 30

Days at or below 0 °C 28.4

Muggy days a summer 11▸

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 30 days a year at or above 30 °C and 28 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the SAUTERNES weather station, 6.5 km away at 65 m; the village itself is at 18 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 11 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at SAUTERNES, 6.5 km away at 65 m, over 22 summers. ^[10]

An average of 862 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at SAUTERNES, 6.5 km away at 65 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 — 33438/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33438/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33438/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33438/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33438
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33543
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
Angresse	40	135 km SW	2,277	49.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 89 % · humidity 36 %
Pocé-sur-Cisse	37	333 km N	1,711	45.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 92 % · humidity 50 %
Carspach	68	667 km NE	2,091	47.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 50 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Sauveur	38	446 km E	2,127	44.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 51 % · humidity 43 %
Bénéjacq	64	154 km S	2,013	53.7	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 73 % · humidity 86 %
Montferrand-le-Château	25	558 km NE	2,180	45.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 47 % · humidity 36 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Angresse	40	135 km SW	2,277	49.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 89 % · humidity 36 %
Bénéjacq	64	154 km S	2,013	53.7	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 73 % · humidity 86 %
Pocé-sur-Cisse	37	333 km N	1,711	45.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 92 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Sauveur	38	446 km E	2,127	44.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 51 % · humidity 43 %
Montferrand-le-Château	25	558 km NE	2,180	45.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 47 % · humidity 36 %
Carspach	68	667 km NE	2,091	47.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 50 % · humidity 36 %

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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-Maixant'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
Cérons	33	8.5 km NW	2,126	42	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Monsempron-Libos	47	96 km E	2,122	42.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Corneilla-la-Rivière	66	319 km SE	2,004	38.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Assat	64	148 km S	2,068	48.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Néfiach	66	315 km SE	1,383	39.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Podensac	33	11 km NW	3,269	45.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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