Le Croisic

Loire-Atlantique · CA de la Presqu'île de Guérande Atlantique (Cap Atlantique) · INSEE 44049

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

Partly served 56.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 72 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Croisic (INSEE 44049) is in Loire-Atlantique (44), part of CA de la Presqu'île de Guérande Atlantique (Cap Atlantique). Population 4,056 (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/44049-le-croisic

Vitality score

Vitality score 56.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 72 % of the 5,564 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	0.6	25	14.88
Social	0.97	20	19.5
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.46	10	4.61
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	0.42	10	4.16
Housing mix	0	5	0

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 5 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 2 of 2

Sport 2 of 2

Everyday services 3 of 3

Lodging 2 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]

8 × Bakery (boulangerie) (MAISON GEORGES LARNICOL · BISCUITERIE DU CROISIC · AU FOURNIL DES SALORGES · DU FOURNIL · MAISON LA GOULUE). ^[3,4]

2 × Butcher (boucherie) (SOC EXPL BOUCHERIE PRAMPART · BOUCHERIE HERRICK). ^[3,4]

3 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LE CAP · L'EFFERVESCENT · LES DELICES DU CROISIC). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (CROISIC DISTRIBUTION). ^[3,4]

2 × Fishmonger (BRIOIS · CHEZ AURELIE). ^[3,4]

32 × Restaurant (LA MELODIE D'AEL · PERNAUD FRANK · SARL LE LENIGO · CREPERIE L'AIR DU TEMPS · B.C). ^[3,4]

12 × Café / bar (MOJITO BAR · BISTROT LA POISSONNERIE · LA CONSERVERIE · FRED L'ECAILLER · L'ATLANTIQUE). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE DUMONT D'URVILLE). ^[3]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE JACQUES CARTIER · ECOLE SAINT GOUSTAN MIXTE). ^[3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CAROLINE VANHAMME, MÉDECIN · CHARLOTTE MATHIVAT, MÉDECIN · JOHAN DAOUZE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

2 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE OCEANE · LA GRANDE PHARMACIE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE LE TRAICT D'ENCRE). ^[3]

1 × Cinema (LE HUBLOT). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF GABRIEL GOURAUD). ^[3]

1 × Swimming pool (PLAGE DE PORT LIN). ^[3]

4 × Bank (AGENCE DU CROISIC · CAISSE DE CREDIT MUTUEL DE GUERANDE · BANQUE POPULAIRE GRAND OUEST · CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT MUTUEL DE LOIRE- ATLANTIQUE ET DU CENTRE OUEST). ^[3]

4 × Hairdresser (AU SALON DE LA PETITE SOPHIE · JOANNA COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

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

5 × Hotel (HÔTEL FORT DE L'OCÉAN · GRAND HÔTEL DE L'OCÉAN · L ESTACADE · HOTEL LES VIKINGS · AU FIN GOURMET). ^[3,4]

4 × Campsite (CAMPING DE LA CÔTE SAUVAGE · CAMPING DE L'OCÉAN (5*) · CAMPING LA PIERRE LONGUE · CAMPING DU PARADIS). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 7 × Restaurant, 1 × Hairdresser, 1 × Hotel.

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	8	MAISON GEORGES LARNICOL · BISCUITERIE DU CROISIC · AU FOURNIL DES SALORGES · DU FOURNIL · MAISON LA GOULUE	INSEE BPE 8 / INSEE SIRENE 9 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	2	SOC EXPL BOUCHERIE PRAMPART · BOUCHERIE HERRICK	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	3	LE CAP · L'EFFERVESCENT · LES DELICES DU CROISIC	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	CROISIC DISTRIBUTION	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	2	BRIOIS · CHEZ AURELIE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Restaurant	32	LA MELODIE D'AEL · PERNAUD FRANK · SARL LE LENIGO · CREPERIE L'AIR DU TEMPS · B.C	INSEE BPE 32 / INSEE SIRENE 44 [3,4]
Café / bar	12	MOJITO BAR · BISTROT LA POISSONNERIE · LA CONSERVERIE · FRED L'ECAILLER · L'ATLANTIQUE	INSEE SIRENE 12 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE DUMONT D'URVILLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE JACQUES CARTIER · ECOLE SAINT GOUSTAN MIXTE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	CAROLINE VANHAMME, MÉDECIN · CHARLOTTE MATHIVAT, MÉDECIN · JOHAN DAOUZE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	2	PHARMACIE OCEANE · LA GRANDE PHARMACIE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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	MÉDIATHÈQUE LE TRAICT D'ENCRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	1	LE HUBLOT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF GABRIEL GOURAUD	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	1	PLAGE DE PORT LIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Bank	4	AGENCE DU CROISIC · CAISSE DE CREDIT MUTUEL DE GUERANDE · BANQUE POPULAIRE GRAND OUEST · CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT MUTUEL DE LOIRE- ATLANTIQUE ET DU CENTRE OUEST	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Hairdresser	4	AU SALON DE LA PETITE SOPHIE · JOANNA COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	5	HÔTEL FORT DE L'OCÉAN · GRAND HÔTEL DE L'OCÉAN · L ESTACADE · HOTEL LES VIKINGS · AU FIN GOURMET	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 9 [3,4]
Campsite	4	CAMPING DE LA CÔTE SAUVAGE · CAMPING DE L'OCÉAN (5*) · CAMPING LA PIERRE LONGUE · CAMPING DU PARADIS	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]

Market and village life

Weekly market (reported, unverified): Tuesday, Thursday matins place Dinan. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 4,102 peak 1990: 4,428 2023: 4,056 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 4,040 (2012) → 4,056 (2023): 0.4 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 4,428 (1990) → 4,056 (2023): -8.4 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 5,474, of which 58.5 % second homes and 2.4 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 1.4 km SE 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 (Le Croisic): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Le Croisic): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Le Croisic): 1.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Le Croisic): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 4.9

Days at or below 0 °C 15.9▸

Muggy days a summer 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 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 16 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the GUERANDE weather station, 6.3 km away at 4 m; the village itself is at 5 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at GUERANDE, 6.3 km away at 4 m, over 25 summers. ^[10]

An average of 677 mm of rain a year, spread over 110 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at GUERANDE, 6.3 km away at 4 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 — 44049/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
Commune website 2026-10— https://www.lecroisic.fr/fr/rb/380889/marches-4— “Marché à la brocante Tous les mardis en juillet et en août de 8h00 à 13h00, place Dinan Marché de plein air Tous les jeudis matins, place Dinan”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44049/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44049/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44049/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 44049
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
La Flotte	17	153 km SE	3,150	57.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Bray-Dunes	59	557 km NE	4,189	48.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Port-Vendres	66	691 km SE	4,018	48	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 80 % · humidity 0 %
Fleury	11	632 km SE	4,246	63.5	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 5 % · winter 93 % · humidity 0 %
Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda	66	674 km SE	3,529	55.8	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 97 % · humidity 43 %
Le Tréport	76	420 km NE	4,378	49.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 76 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Flotte	17	153 km SE	3,150	57.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Le Tréport	76	420 km NE	4,378	49.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 76 %
Bray-Dunes	59	557 km NE	4,189	48.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Fleury	11	632 km SE	4,246	63.5	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 5 % · winter 93 % · humidity 0 %
Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda	66	674 km SE	3,529	55.8	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 97 % · humidity 43 %
Port-Vendres	66	691 km SE	4,018	48	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 80 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Le Croisic'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
La Flotte	17	153 km SE	3,150	57.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Bray-Dunes	59	557 km NE	4,189	48.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Bénodet	29	136 km NW	3,849	57.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Quay-Portrieux	22	153 km N	3,224	44.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Trouville-sur-Mer	14	300 km NE	4,619	54.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Deauville	14	299 km NE	3,539	62.9	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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