Saint-Colomban

Loire-Atlantique · CC Grand Lieu Communauté · INSEE 44155

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

Few services 38.4/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 14 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Colomban (INSEE 44155) is in Loire-Atlantique (44), part of CC Grand Lieu Communauté. Population 3,500 (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/44155-saint-colomban

Vitality score

Vitality score 38.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 14 % of the 6,283 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	0.2	25	5.12
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.37	10	3.74
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.82

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 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 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]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE FOURNIL DE SAINT COLOMBAN). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LES DEUX FERMES · JID DISTRIBUTION). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LA COLOMBIERE). ^[3,4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE JACQUES PREVERT · ECOLE PRIVEE ST LOUIS DDEC). ^[3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (AURELIEN BRUNET, MÉDECIN · LUCIE GRIGNON, MÉDECIN · MAILYS DIARRA, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (ST COLOMBAN RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE AU JARDIN DES HISTOIRES). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (ESPACE YANNICK NOAH). ^[3]

6 × Hairdresser (LA SOURCE DU BIEN ETRE · AU CHEVEU PRES · DAVID COIFFURE A DOMICILE · CHARLENE LAUNAY, COIFFEUSE A DOMICILE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant, 1 × Pharmacy.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LE FOURNIL DE SAINT COLOMBAN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	LES DEUX FERMES · JID DISTRIBUTION	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	LA COLOMBIERE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE JACQUES PREVERT · ECOLE PRIVEE ST LOUIS DDEC	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	AURELIEN BRUNET, MÉDECIN · LUCIE GRIGNON, MÉDECIN · MAILYS DIARRA, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	ST COLOMBAN RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE AU JARDIN DES HISTOIRES	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	ESPACE YANNICK NOAH	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	6	LA SOURCE DU BIEN ETRE · AU CHEVEU PRES · DAVID COIFFURE A DOMICILE · CHARLENE LAUNAY, COIFFEUSE A DOMICILE	INSEE BPE 6 / INSEE SIRENE 7 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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: 1,657 2023: 3,500 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 3,191 (2012) → 3,500 (2023): 9.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,889 (1990) → 3,500 (2023): 85.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,486, of which 1.8 % second homes and 4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 5.0 km S 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-Colomban): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Colomban): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Colomban): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Corcoué-sur-Logne): 5 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Colomban): 0.1 km to the south-east (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. ^[10]

Measured at the ST-MEME-LE-TENU weather station, 15.2 km away at 4 m; the village itself is at 20 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at ST-MEME-LE-TENU, 15.2 km away at 4 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

An average of 908 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ST-PHILBERT, 5.7 km away at 18 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44155/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44155/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44155/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44155/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 44155
INSEE BPE 2025 — 44156
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
Saint-Jean-de-Liversay	17	99 km SE	3,063	38.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 95 %
Brains	44	21 km NW	2,709	49.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Cléguer	56	165 km NW	3,460	47.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Foug	54	580 km E	2,628	40.6	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Mauves-sur-Loire	44	35 km NE	3,409	45.3	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Gerstheim	67	711 km E	3,490	39	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 42 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Brains	44	21 km NW	2,709	49.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Mauves-sur-Loire	44	35 km NE	3,409	45.3	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jean-de-Liversay	17	99 km SE	3,063	38.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 95 %
Cléguer	56	165 km NW	3,460	47.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Foug	54	580 km E	2,628	40.6	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Gerstheim	67	711 km E	3,490	39	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 42 % · humidity 100 %

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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-Colomban'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
Brains	44	21 km NW	2,709	49.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups	85	44 km S	2,585	46.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Montbert	44	8.8 km NE	3,388	41.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Domagné	35	119 km N	2,491	54.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Piré-Chancé	35	112 km N	3,224	40.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Nouvoitou	35	115 km N	3,911	42.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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