Legé

Loire-Atlantique · CC Sud Retz Atlantique · INSEE 44081

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

Partly served 50.6/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 45 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Legé (INSEE 44081) is in Loire-Atlantique (44), part of CC Sud Retz Atlantique. Population 4,817 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[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/44081-lege

Vitality score

Vitality score 50.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 45 % of the 4,827 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	0.42	25	10.39
Social	0.36	20	7.13
Education	0.53	10	5.28
Health	0.59	10	5.85
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	0.86	10	8.64
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.63

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 2 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 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]

4 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BICHON). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (LE TWIST). ^[3,4]

2 × Supermarket (LIDL · LEGE EXPANSION). ^[3,4]

5 × Restaurant (L ODELYSS · LAZZARO PIZZA · CHE LENNON · LE PHOENIX). ^[3,4]

3 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PRIVEE COURS RACINE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LE CHAMBORD · ECOLE NOTRE DAME DDEC). ^[3]

3 × Collège (ECOLE SECONDAIRE PRIVEE COURS RACINE · COLLEGE PIERRE DE COUBERTIN · COLLEGE PRIVE SAINTE ANNE). ^[3]

6 × GP (médecin généraliste) (MICHEL CHOLLET, MÉDECIN · BERANGERE CHARRUAU, MÉDECIN · CANDICE AUDRAN, MÉDECIN · SIMON RERAT, MÉDECIN · VIRGINIE FOURNY, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

2 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DES LYS · PHARMACIE DES VISITANDINES). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE LEGÉ). ^[3]

1 × Cinema (CINEMA ST MICHEL). ^[3]

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

3 × Bank (CAISSE D'EPARGNE ET DE PREVOYANCE BRETAGNE - PAYS DE LOIRE · CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL ATLANTIQUE VENDEE · POUR EMPLOI DU PERSONNEL DE CCM DE LEGE). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (BABU II · L'HAIR DU TEMPS). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Hotel (LA VILLA DES FORGES). ^[3]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	4	BICHON	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	LE TWIST	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Supermarket	2	LIDL · LEGE EXPANSION	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	5	L ODELYSS · LAZZARO PIZZA · CHE LENNON · LE PHOENIX	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 11 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	3	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PRIVEE COURS RACINE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LE CHAMBORD · ECOLE NOTRE DAME DDEC	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Collège	3	ECOLE SECONDAIRE PRIVEE COURS RACINE · COLLEGE PIERRE DE COUBERTIN · COLLEGE PRIVE SAINTE ANNE	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	6	MICHEL CHOLLET, MÉDECIN · BERANGERE CHARRUAU, MÉDECIN · CANDICE AUDRAN, MÉDECIN · SIMON RERAT, MÉDECIN · VIRGINIE FOURNY, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 6 [3]
Pharmacy	2	PHARMACIE DES LYS · PHARMACIE DES VISITANDINES	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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 DE LEGÉ	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	1	CINEMA ST MICHEL	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF PIERRE DE COUBERTIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	3	CAISSE D'EPARGNE ET DE PREVOYANCE BRETAGNE - PAYS DE LOIRE · CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL ATLANTIQUE VENDEE · POUR EMPLOI DU PERSONNEL DE CCM DE LEGE	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Hairdresser	3	BABU II · L'HAIR DU TEMPS	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	1	LA VILLA DES FORGES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 3,521 2023: 4,817 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 4,350 (2012) → 4,817 (2023): 10.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 3,532 (1990) → 4,817 (2023): 36.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 2,313, of which 3.7 % second homes and 8.4 % 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 (Legé): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Legé): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Legé): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Legé): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Legé): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 11.1

Days at or below 0 °C 32.8

Muggy days a summer 2.4

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 33 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the ST-MEME-LE-TENU weather station, 19.5 km away at 4 m; the village itself is at 51 m. ^[9]

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

Humidity measured at ST-MEME-LE-TENU, 19.5 km away at 4 m, over 21 summers. ^[9]

An average of 908 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at ST-PHILBERT, 16.6 km away at 18 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44081/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44081/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44081/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44081/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 44081
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
Héric	44	59 km N	6,585	56.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Chabanière	69	500 km E	4,323	42.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Pluméliau-Bieuzy	56	158 km NW	4,632	49.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Hillion	22	198 km NW	4,335	57.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Campbon	44	65 km NW	4,058	48.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Bellevigne-en-Layon	49	93 km NE	5,922	63.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Héric	44	59 km N	6,585	56.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Campbon	44	65 km NW	4,058	48.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Bellevigne-en-Layon	49	93 km NE	5,922	63.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Pluméliau-Bieuzy	56	158 km NW	4,632	49.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Hillion	22	198 km NW	4,335	57.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Chabanière	69	500 km E	4,323	42.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · 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 Legé'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
Héric	44	59 km N	6,585	56.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Chabanière	69	500 km E	4,323	42.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Bellevigne-en-Layon	49	93 km NE	5,922	63.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Verneuil-sur-Vienne	87	239 km SE	4,903	42.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Missillac	44	79 km NW	5,709	49.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Plémet	22	162 km NW	3,764	49.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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