Grandchamp-des-Fontaines

Loire-Atlantique · CC d'Erdre et Gesvres · INSEE 44066

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

Partly served 53.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 51 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Grandchamp-des-Fontaines (INSEE 44066) is in Loire-Atlantique (44), part of CC d'Erdre et Gesvres. Population 7,062 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/44066-grandchamp-des-fontaines

Vitality score

Vitality score 53.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 51 % of the 3,408 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	0.63	20	12.58
Education	0.53	10	5.28
Health	0.47	10	4.67
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.98	5	4.91

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 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 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 2 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) (PANISFAIRE). ^[3,4]

2 × Supermarket (INTERMARCHE · CARREFOUR CONTACT). ^[3,4]

8 × Restaurant (RABOUIN ET FILS · CHEZ LALIE · INFINIDRIVE · AVANTIPIZZA). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (LE SUPPORTER). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE HIPPOLYTE MONNIER). ^[3]

3 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE LA FUTAIE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE ROBERT DESNOS · ECOLE SAINT JOSEPH DDEC). ^[3]

5 × GP (médecin généraliste) (HELENE ALIX, MÉDECIN · JEAN-FRANCOIS MAHE, MÉDECIN · CECILE PITOIS, MÉDECIN · MARIE-LAURE POUTOT-BOURAIN, MÉDECIN · BERTRAND HERVE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE GRANCHAMP DES FONTAINES). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (GRANDCHAMPS DES FONTAINES AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE VICTOR-HUGO). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE DES 100 SILLONS). ^[3]

7 × Hairdresser (TEMPS DE POSE · ISABELLE COIFFURE A DOMICILE · LOFT COIFFURE · O NUANCES). ^[3,4]

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

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	PANISFAIRE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Supermarket	2	INTERMARCHE · CARREFOUR CONTACT	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	8	RABOUIN ET FILS · CHEZ LALIE · INFINIDRIVE · AVANTIPIZZA	INSEE BPE 8 / INSEE SIRENE 10 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	LE SUPPORTER	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE HIPPOLYTE MONNIER	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	3	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE LA FUTAIE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE ROBERT DESNOS · ECOLE SAINT JOSEPH DDEC	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	5	HELENE ALIX, MÉDECIN · JEAN-FRANCOIS MAHE, MÉDECIN · CECILE PITOIS, MÉDECIN · MARIE-LAURE POUTOT-BOURAIN, MÉDECIN · BERTRAND HERVE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 5 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE GRANCHAMP DES FONTAINES	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	GRANDCHAMPS DES FONTAINES AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE VICTOR-HUGO	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE DES 100 SILLONS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	7	TEMPS DE POSE · ISABELLE COIFFURE A DOMICILE · LOFT COIFFURE · O NUANCES	INSEE BPE 7 / INSEE SIRENE 7 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 1,291 2023: 7,062 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 5,156 (2012) → 7,062 (2023): 37 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 2,464 (1990) → 7,062 (2023): 186.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 2,720, of which 0.9 % second homes and 4.5 % vacant. ^[7]

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 (Grandchamp-des-Fontaines): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Grandchamp-des-Fontaines): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Grandchamp-des-Fontaines): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Grandchamp-des-Fontaines): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Grandchamp-des-Fontaines): 0.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14.7

Days at or below 0 °C 35

Muggy days a summer 2.1

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 35 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the NORT-SUR-ERDRE weather station, 9.7 km away at 13 m; the village itself is at 35 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at NORT-SUR-ERDRE, 9.7 km away at 13 m, over 21 summers. ^[9]

An average of 965 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at VIGNEUX, 8.7 km away at 75 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 — 44066/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44066/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44066/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44066/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 44066
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
Essarts-en-Bocage	85	72 km SE	6,851	57.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Mignaloux-Beauvoir	86	179 km SE	5,229	41.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Plédran	22	147 km NW	6,933	50.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Montval-sur-Loir	72	156 km E	5,641	56.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 99 %
Mouilleron-le-Captif	85	73 km S	5,273	45.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Monnaie	37	181 km E	4,833	46.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Essarts-en-Bocage	85	72 km SE	6,851	57.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Mouilleron-le-Captif	85	73 km S	5,273	45.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Plédran	22	147 km NW	6,933	50.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Montval-sur-Loir	72	156 km E	5,641	56.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 99 %
Mignaloux-Beauvoir	86	179 km SE	5,229	41.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Monnaie	37	181 km E	4,833	46.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · 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 Grandchamp-des-Fontaines'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
Essarts-en-Bocage	85	72 km SE	6,851	57.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Mouilleron-le-Captif	85	73 km S	5,273	45.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Monnaie	37	181 km E	4,833	46.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Bellevigny	85	66 km S	6,240	54.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Donges	44	36 km W	8,219	50.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Louverné	53	107 km NE	4,344	46.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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