Frossay

Loire-Atlantique · CC du Sud Estuaire · INSEE 44061

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

Few services 39.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 19 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Frossay (INSEE 44061) is in Loire-Atlantique (44), part of CC du Sud Estuaire. Population 3,307 (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 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/44061-frossay

Vitality score

Vitality score 39.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 19 % of the 6,564 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	0.22	25	5.53
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.43	10	4.27
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.43

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 1 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). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (EPICERIE FROSSETAINE). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LEGENDIA RESTAURATION ET SERVICES · L'OGRE BLEU). ^[3,4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE ALEXIS MANEYROL · ECOLE MONTFORT DDEC). ^[3]

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JULIE ROBERT, MÉDECIN · NATHALIE MOREAUX, MÉDECIN · EMILIE FONDIN, MÉDECIN · ELOISE HEROUX, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE LE JARDIN DU LIVRE). ^[3]

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

4 × Hairdresser (DURAND ANNABELLE · LE COCON · CHRISTELLE'COIFF). ^[3,4]

2 × Campsite (CAMPING MUNICIPAL DU MIGRON · LA CALE SAUVAGE). ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	EPICERIE FROSSETAINE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	2	LEGENDIA RESTAURATION ET SERVICES · L'OGRE BLEU	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE ALEXIS MANEYROL · ECOLE MONTFORT DDEC	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	4	JULIE ROBERT, MÉDECIN · NATHALIE MOREAUX, MÉDECIN · EMILIE FONDIN, MÉDECIN · ELOISE HEROUX, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE LE PEMP	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 MUNICIPALE LE JARDIN DU LIVRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	4	DURAND ANNABELLE · LE COCON · CHRISTELLE'COIFF	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 4 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	2	CAMPING MUNICIPAL DU MIGRON · LA CALE SAUVAGE	INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

A market is recorded here, but no source gives the day. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 2,018 2023: 3,307 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 3,078 (2012) → 3,307 (2023): 7.4 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 2,099 (1990) → 3,307 (2023): 57.6 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,449, of which 5.7 % second homes and 4.5 % 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 (Frossay): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Frossay): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Frossay): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Frossay): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Frossay): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.2

Days at or below 0 °C 19.7

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 20 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the PORNIC weather station, 18.2 km away at 25 m; the village itself is at 32 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at ST NAZAIRE-MONTOIR, 18.4 km away at 3 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 891 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at PELLERIN(LE), 8.8 km away at 4 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44061/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2026-10— https://data.datatourisme.fr/49/0114fbf2-2de1-3d49-8d3e-608946f414f1— “MARCHÉ DE FROSSAY”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44061/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44061/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44061/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 44061
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 Pallet	44	47 km E	3,413	44.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 84 %
Montbert	44	40 km SE	3,388	41.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Drézéry	34	604 km SE	3,006	42.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 70 % · humidity 79 %
La Chaize-le-Vicomte	85	80 km SE	3,948	40.4	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Magescq	40	389 km S	2,698	54.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 81 % · humidity 0 %
Vivy	49	142 km E	2,582	52.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 82 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Montbert	44	40 km SE	3,388	41.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Le Pallet	44	47 km E	3,413	44.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 84 %
La Chaize-le-Vicomte	85	80 km SE	3,948	40.4	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Vivy	49	142 km E	2,582	52.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 82 %
Magescq	40	389 km S	2,698	54.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 81 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Drézéry	34	604 km SE	3,006	42.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 70 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Frossay'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
Montbert	44	40 km SE	3,388	41.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Mouchamps	85	84 km SE	3,015	40.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Uzerche	19	336 km SE	2,814	53.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups	85	75 km S	2,585	46.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Brains	44	18 km SE	2,709	49.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Nalliers	85	110 km SE	2,389	58.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

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