Saint-Marc-le-Blanc

Ille-et-Vilaine · CC Couesnon Marches de Bretagne · INSEE 35292

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

Few services 34.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 30 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Marc-le-Blanc (INSEE 35292) is in Ille-et-Vilaine (35), part of CC Couesnon Marches de Bretagne. Population 1,553 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2019-01-01 from 1 former commune: Baillé (35011). ^[3]

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 34.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 30 % of the 11,363 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	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.61	10	6.15
Housing mix	0.85	5	4.26

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[4,5]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[4,5]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE ALINE ERIC). ^[4,5]

2 × Café / bar (CHEZ CHRISTELLE). ^[5]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE LE PICAOU). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE LE PICAOU). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINT MARC LE BLANC AP). ^[4]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE DE SAINT-MARC-LE-BLANC). ^[4]

2 × Hairdresser (CATHERINE COIFFURE · CAROLINE COIFFURE). ^[4,5]

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE ALINE ERIC	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Café / bar	2	CHEZ CHRISTELLE	INSEE SIRENE 2 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE LE PICAOU	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE LE PICAOU	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	SAINT MARC LE BLANC AP	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE DE SAINT-MARC-LE-BLANC	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	2	CATHERINE COIFFURE · CAROLINE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,5]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,496 peak 2017: 1,689 2023: 1,553 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,611 (2012) → 1,553 (2023): -3.6 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,393 (1990) → 1,553 (2023): 11.5 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 865, of which 7.4 % second homes and 11.4 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 4.7 km SPharmacy — 4.7 km S 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-Marc-le-Blanc): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Saint-Marc-le-Blanc): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Ouen-des-Alleux): 4.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Ouen-des-Alleux): 4.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Marc-le-Blanc): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.3

Days at or below 0 °C 30.7

Muggy days a summer 1.1

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 31 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the FEINS SA weather station, 14.5 km away at 87 m; the village itself is at 100 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at FEINS SA, 14.5 km away at 87 m, over 20 summers. ^[11]

An average of 870 mm of rain a year, spread over 134 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MEZIERES-SUR-C., 6.6 km away at 71 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35292/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35292/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35292/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 35292/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 35292
INSEE BPE 2025 — 35304
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
Le Trévoux	29	174 km W	1,652	38.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Terre-et-Marais	50	97 km N	1,271	39.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 91 %
Huisseau-sur-Mauves	45	237 km E	1,778	38.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Bullion	78	253 km E	1,916	36.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Chitenay	41	229 km SE	1,132	29.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 66 %
Pontvallain	72	137 km SE	1,607	37.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Terre-et-Marais	50	97 km N	1,271	39.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 91 %
Pontvallain	72	137 km SE	1,607	37.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Le Trévoux	29	174 km W	1,652	38.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Chitenay	41	229 km SE	1,132	29.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 66 %
Huisseau-sur-Mauves	45	237 km E	1,778	38.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Bullion	78	253 km E	1,916	36.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %

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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-Marc-le-Blanc'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
Mahalon	29	227 km W	1,021	36.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Hénansal	22	78 km W	1,294	33.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Pouldergat	29	219 km W	1,213	25.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Plédéliac	22	73 km W	1,662	54.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Maxent	35	63 km SW	1,450	42.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
La Bazouge-du-Désert	35	24 km E	1,095	26.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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