La Chapelle-des-Marais

Loire-Atlantique · CA de la Région Nazairienne et de l'Estuaire (CARENE) · INSEE 44030

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

Partly served 46/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 29 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Chapelle-des-Marais (INSEE 44030) is in Loire-Atlantique (44), part of CA de la Région Nazairienne et de l'Estuaire (CARENE). Population 4,492 (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/44030-la-chapelle-des-marais

Vitality score

Vitality score 46/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 29 % of the 5,098 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	0.58	20	11.6
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.22	10	2.21
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	0.9	10	9.01
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.65

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 3 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AUX DOLMENS DES MARAIS). ^[3,4]

2 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

1 × Fishmonger (NINI POISSONNERIE). ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (LAZZARO PIZZA · LE COLIBRI). ^[3,4]

4 × Café / bar (BAR DE LA JEUNESSE · LA CHOPE DES MARAIS · L'ESCALE). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LES FIFENDES · ECOLE SAINTE MARIE DDEC). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (OVIDIU IUHAS, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA CHAPELLE DES MARAIS AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (MEDIATHEQUE MUNICIPALE GASTON LEROUX). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF DE LA PIERRIERE). ^[3]

1 × Bank (PR EMPLOI PERSONNEL CCM NORD BRIERE). ^[3]

4 × Hairdresser (HARDY MYRTILLE · CHRYSTEL COIFFURE · PAUSE COIFFEE · JOUIN.C). ^[3,4]

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hairdresser.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	AUX DOLMENS DES MARAIS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	2		INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	1	NINI POISSONNERIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Restaurant	3	LAZZARO PIZZA · LE COLIBRI	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	4	BAR DE LA JEUNESSE · LA CHOPE DES MARAIS · L'ESCALE	INSEE SIRENE 4 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LES FIFENDES · ECOLE SAINTE MARIE DDEC	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	OVIDIU IUHAS, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DES MARAIS	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 CHAPELLE DES MARAIS AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MEDIATHEQUE MUNICIPALE GASTON LEROUX	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF DE LA PIERRIERE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	1	PR EMPLOI PERSONNEL CCM NORD BRIERE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Hairdresser	4	HARDY MYRTILLE · CHRYSTEL COIFFURE · PAUSE COIFFEE · JOUIN.C	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 7 [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

Weekly market (reported, unverified): Friday, Sunday 8h30 à 12h30 Esplanade Bernard LEGRAND. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 2,550 2023: 4,492 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 3,901 (2012) → 4,492 (2023): 15.1 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 3,206 (1990) → 4,492 (2023): 40.1 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 2,090, of which 3.5 % second homes and 6 % vacant. ^[8]

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 (La Chapelle-des-Marais): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (La Chapelle-des-Marais): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (La Chapelle-des-Marais): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (La Chapelle-des-Marais): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (La Chapelle-des-Marais): 0.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 11

Days at or below 0 °C 27.8

Muggy days a summer 2.3

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 11 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 HERBIGNAC weather station, 7.4 km away at 22 m; the village itself is at 5 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ST NAZAIRE-MONTOIR, 16.2 km away at 3 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 900 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at HERBIGNAC, 7.4 km away at 22 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

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 — 44030/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
Commune website 2026-10— http://www.lachapelledesmarais.fr/la-ville/au-quotidien/marches.html— “de 8h30 à 12h30 Les vendredis et les dimanches Esplanade Bernard LEGRAND”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44030/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44030/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44030/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 44030
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
Val d'Anast	35	53 km N	3,930	52.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Ploudaniel	29	196 km NW	3,732	43	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Craon	53	107 km NE	4,431	61.4	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 81 %
Ytrac	15	453 km SE	4,339	39.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 43 % · humidity 86 %
Iffendic	35	78 km N	4,609	50.3	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %
Treize-Septiers	85	92 km SE	3,416	40.4	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 84 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Val d'Anast	35	53 km N	3,930	52.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Iffendic	35	78 km N	4,609	50.3	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %
Treize-Septiers	85	92 km SE	3,416	40.4	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 84 %
Craon	53	107 km NE	4,431	61.4	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 81 %
Ploudaniel	29	196 km NW	3,732	43	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Ytrac	15	453 km SE	4,339	39.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 43 % · humidity 86 %

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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 La Chapelle-des-Marais'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
Val d'Anast	35	53 km N	3,930	52.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Steenvoorde	59	513 km NE	4,332	49.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Plumergat	56	60 km NW	4,207	45.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
La Séguinière	49	107 km SE	4,248	48.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Longuenée-en-Anjou	49	119 km E	6,571	54.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Le Bignon	44	69 km SE	3,976	51.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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