Saint-André-des-Eaux

Loire-Atlantique · CA de la Région Nazairienne et de l'Estuaire (CARENE) · INSEE 44151

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

Partly served 51.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 45 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-André-des-Eaux (INSEE 44151) is in Loire-Atlantique (44), part of CA de la Région Nazairienne et de l'Estuaire (CARENE). Population 7,013 (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/44151-saint-andre-des-eaux

Vitality score

Vitality score 51.5/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 45 % of the 3,434 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	0.28	25	6.97
Social	0.66	20	13.11
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	0.88	5	4.41

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 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 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AU FOURNIL ANDREANAIS). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (CHARCUTERIE DE LA BRIERE). ^[3]

1 × Supermarket (ANDREDIS). ^[3,4]

10 × Restaurant (LA LOGE BRIERONNE · AUBERGE DU HAUT MARLAND · SARL DEPASCALICE · CREA'PIZZ · AU CUL DU CAMION). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (THE PEAT · LA BASCULE). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE JULES FERRY). ^[3]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE JULES FERRY · ECOLE NOTRE DAME DDEC). ^[3]

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (PATRICE GOUMENT, MÉDECIN · CYRIL MORCHAIN, MÉDECIN · MARYLENE DUPOUY, MÉDECIN · ALEXIS COUFFON, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE LA BRIERE). ^[3,4]

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

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

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

9 × Hairdresser (LD COIFF · SOPHIE COIFFURE · BOURMAUD JESSIE · L'HAIR DE ROMAEL). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LES CHALANDS FLEURIS). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 3 × Restaurant.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	AU FOURNIL ANDREANAIS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	CHARCUTERIE DE LA BRIERE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	ANDREDIS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	10	LA LOGE BRIERONNE · AUBERGE DU HAUT MARLAND · SARL DEPASCALICE · CREA'PIZZ · AU CUL DU CAMION	INSEE BPE 10 / INSEE SIRENE 16 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	THE PEAT · LA BASCULE	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE JULES FERRY	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE JULES FERRY · ECOLE NOTRE DAME DDEC	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	4	PATRICE GOUMENT, MÉDECIN · CYRIL MORCHAIN, MÉDECIN · MARYLENE DUPOUY, MÉDECIN · ALEXIS COUFFON, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE LA BRIERE	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	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF DES GUIFETTES	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	9	LD COIFF · SOPHIE COIFFURE · BOURMAUD JESSIE · L'HAIR DE ROMAEL	INSEE BPE 9 / INSEE SIRENE 11 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 12 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING LES CHALANDS FLEURIS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

Weekly market (reported, unverified): Friday, Sunday 9h à 12h30 Place de l'Eglise. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 1,554 2023: 7,013 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 5,607 (2012) → 7,013 (2023): 25.1 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 2,919 (1990) → 7,013 (2023): 140.3 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 3,222, of which 5.9 % second homes and 4.1 % 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 (Saint-André-des-Eaux): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Saint-André-des-Eaux): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-André-des-Eaux): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-André-des-Eaux): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-André-des-Eaux): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.5

Days at or below 0 °C 11.7▸

Muggy days a summer 4.1

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 12 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the PTE DE CHEMOULIN weather station, 8.9 km away at 14 m; the village itself is at 21 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at PTE DE CHEMOULIN, 8.9 km away at 14 m, over 14 summers. ^[10]

An average of 584 mm of rain a year, spread over 108 days — about 5.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at PTE DE CHEMOULIN, 8.9 km away at 14 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 — 44151/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
Commune website 2026-10— https://www.saint-andre-des-eaux.fr/marches/— “Retrouvez tous les vendredis et dimanches matin”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44151/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44151/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44151/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 44151
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
Plédran	22	130 km N	6,933	50.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 79 %
Pleurtuit	35	142 km N	7,167	65.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 79 %
Combourg	35	129 km N	6,411	65.1	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 74 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx	40	425 km S	6,238	56.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 82 % · humidity 0 %
Labenne	40	419 km S	7,183	57.4	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 96 % · humidity 0 %
Luc-la-Primaube	12	502 km SE	6,046	62.5	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 22 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Combourg	35	129 km N	6,411	65.1	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 74 % · humidity 79 %
Plédran	22	130 km N	6,933	50.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 79 %
Pleurtuit	35	142 km N	7,167	65.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 79 %
Labenne	40	419 km S	7,183	57.4	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 96 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx	40	425 km S	6,238	56.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 82 % · humidity 0 %
Luc-la-Primaube	12	502 km SE	6,046	62.5	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 22 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Saint-André-des-Eaux'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
Ergué-Gabéric	29	149 km NW	8,606	63.9	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Chaumes-en-Retz	44	36 km SE	7,440	64.7	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Grand-Champ	56	64 km NW	5,929	56.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Villeneuve-en-Retz	44	41 km SE	5,120	61.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Évarzec	29	146 km NW	3,574	47.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Plomelin	29	154 km NW	4,239	41.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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