Bénesse-Maremne

Landes · CC Maremne Adour Côte Sud · INSEE 40036

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

Partly served 48.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 43 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bénesse-Maremne (INSEE 40036) is in Landes (40), part of CC Maremne Adour Côte Sud. Population 3,780 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/40036-benesse-maremne

Vitality score

Vitality score 48.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 43 % of the 5,918 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	0.42	25	10.39
Social	0.47	20	9.36
Education	0.22	10	2.21
Health	0.37	10	3.74
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.87	5	4.37

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 2 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]

4 × Bakery (boulangerie) (PATSY · LA BOULANG DRIVE · MITCHUT · MISTER BUNS). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE DE MAREMNE). ^[3,4]

2 × Supermarket (LIDL · ALDI MARCHE). ^[3,4]

11 × Restaurant (LE PIN DES PIZZ · LE MANGANA · LA MAISON DU TENDERS · SB ARTISANS BURGER). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE MAURICE GENEVOIX). ^[3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (LAURA DUFAURET, MÉDECIN · ANAIS LASSERRE, MÉDECIN · JULIE PELLETIER, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE L'ESCALE DES LIVRES). ^[3]

5 × Hairdresser (C&LINE COIFFURE · LC COIFFURE · L ATELIER DE LOLA · LE P'TIT SALON · MARQUES ROSA-MARIA). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (HÔTEL MOTEL DES LANDES). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 6 × Restaurant.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	4	PATSY · LA BOULANG DRIVE · MITCHUT · MISTER BUNS	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BOUCHERIE DE MAREMNE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	2	LIDL · ALDI MARCHE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	11	LE PIN DES PIZZ · LE MANGANA · LA MAISON DU TENDERS · SB ARTISANS BURGER	INSEE BPE 11 / INSEE SIRENE 15 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE MAURICE GENEVOIX	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	LAURA DUFAURET, MÉDECIN · ANAIS LASSERRE, MÉDECIN · JULIE PELLETIER, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DEMANGE	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 POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE L'ESCALE DES LIVRES	INSEE BPE 1 [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	5	C&LINE COIFFURE · LC COIFFURE · L ATELIER DE LOLA · LE P'TIT SALON · MARQUES ROSA-MARIA	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 7 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Hotel	1	HÔTEL MOTEL DES LANDES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 1,089 2023: 3,780 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,498 (2012) → 3,780 (2023): 51.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,471 (1990) → 3,780 (2023): 157 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 2,063, of which 6.3 % second homes and 7.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 0.6 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 (Bénesse-Maremne): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bénesse-Maremne): 0.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Bénesse-Maremne): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Bénesse-Maremne): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Bénesse-Maremne): 0.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 23.5

Days at or below 0 °C 19.5

Muggy days a summer 20.3▸

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 24 days a year at or above 30 °C and 20 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the SOORTS-HOSSEGOR weather station, 6.7 km away at 10 m; the village itself is at 17 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 20 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at CAPBRETON, 7.5 km away at 11 m, over 23 summers. ^[9]

An average of 1,187 mm of rain a year, spread over 132 days — about 9 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at SOORTS-HOSSEGOR, 6.7 km away at 10 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 — 40036/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40036/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40036/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40036/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40036
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 May-sur-Èvre	49	392 km N	3,920	38	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 73 % · humidity 0 %
Bourg-des-Comptes	35	479 km N	3,411	45.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 86 % · humidity 0 %
Dieulouard	54	813 km NE	4,581	40.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 20 %
Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne	06	656 km E	4,056	43.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 84 % · humidity 14 %
Sainte-Hélène	33	153 km N	3,091	42	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 68 % · humidity 7 %
Précigné	72	467 km N	2,877	46.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 73 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sainte-Hélène	33	153 km N	3,091	42	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 68 % · humidity 7 %
Le May-sur-Èvre	49	392 km N	3,920	38	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 73 % · humidity 0 %
Précigné	72	467 km N	2,877	46.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 73 %
Bourg-des-Comptes	35	479 km N	3,411	45.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 86 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Cézaire-sur-Siagne	06	656 km E	4,056	43.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 84 % · humidity 14 %
Dieulouard	54	813 km NE	4,581	40.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 20 %

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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 Bénesse-Maremne'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
Salses-le-Château	66	358 km E	3,965	50.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Villelongue-de-la-Salanque	66	366 km E	3,335	40.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx	40	10 km S	6,238	56.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Nazaire	66	369 km E	2,779	56.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle	64	34 km SW	7,264	66.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Jean-de-Marsacq	40	8.2 km E	1,840	45.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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