Abbaretz

Loire-Atlantique · CC de Nozay · INSEE 44001

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

Partly served 51.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 75 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Abbaretz (INSEE 44001) is in Loire-Atlantique (44), part of CC de Nozay. Population 2,073 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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/44001-abbaretz

Vitality score

Vitality score 51.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 75 % of the 9,362 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.78	20	15.54
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.39	10	3.93
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.82	10	8.19
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.72

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 0 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) (LE GOUT ET LA MANIERE). ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (MIAM · LA FABRIQUE DE NATH · OJAMASHIMASU). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar (CAFE DES SPORTS). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LOUIS DAVY · ECOLE PRIVEE MIXTE ST JOSEPH DDEC). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CATHERINE CASTELLANI, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE LA MINE DU LIVRE). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (BEAUTE CABBARETZ SARL). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (LE MANOIR DE LA JAHOTIERE). ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LE GOUT ET LA MANIERE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	3	MIAM · LA FABRIQUE DE NATH · OJAMASHIMASU	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	3	CAFE DES SPORTS	INSEE SIRENE 3 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LOUIS DAVY · ECOLE PRIVEE MIXTE ST JOSEPH DDEC	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	CATHERINE CASTELLANI, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE D ABBARETZ	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	BIBLIOTHÈQUE LA MINE DU LIVRE	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	3	BEAUTE CABBARETZ SARL	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	LE MANOIR DE LA JAHOTIERE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

Weekly market (reported, unverified): Tuesday 16h30 à 19h rue de Bellevue (seasonal). ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 2,007 peak 2017: 2,088 2023: 2,073 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,956 (2012) → 2,073 (2023): 6 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,572 (1990) → 2,073 (2023): 31.9 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 988, of which 2.8 % second homes and 8.3 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 6.6 km W 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 (Abbaretz): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Nozay): 6.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Abbaretz): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Abbaretz): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Abbaretz): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 13

Days at or below 0 °C 38.5

Muggy days a summer 1.7

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 39 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the NORT-SUR-ERDRE weather station, 14.3 km away at 13 m; the village itself is at 69 m. ^[11]

The village sits 56 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at NORT-SUR-ERDRE, 14.3 km away at 13 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 56 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 885 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at NOZAY, 6.4 km away at 44 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

The market day comes from the commune's own website and has not been confirmed by a second source. ^[5]

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44001/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
Commune website 2026-10— https://www.abbaretz.fr/le-marche-alimentaire/— “Tous les mardis, de 16h30 à 19h, vos producteurs locaux sont présents sous la Halle située rue de Bellevue.”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44001/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44001/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44001/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 44001
INSEE BPE 2025 — 44113
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
Inguiniel	56	139 km W	2,188	57.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Moisdon-la-Rivière	44	14 km NE	1,990	50.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 96 %
Bréhan	56	103 km NW	2,306	43.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Bourbriac	22	160 km NW	2,145	54	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Bazouges-la-Pérouse	35	97 km N	1,877	51.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Putanges-le-Lac	61	165 km NE	2,093	45	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Moisdon-la-Rivière	44	14 km NE	1,990	50.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 96 %
Bazouges-la-Pérouse	35	97 km N	1,877	51.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Bréhan	56	103 km NW	2,306	43.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Inguiniel	56	139 km W	2,188	57.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Bourbriac	22	160 km NW	2,145	54	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Putanges-le-Lac	61	165 km NE	2,093	45	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 91 % · 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 Abbaretz'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
Campénéac	56	72 km NW	1,991	40.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Montredon-Labessonnié	81	521 km SE	2,076	53.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Savigny-sur-Braye	41	179 km E	1,962	39.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Guilliers	56	85 km NW	1,368	45.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Taupont	56	81 km NW	2,428	49	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Le Grand-Bourg	23	287 km SE	1,167	39.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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