Saint-Étienne-de-Mer-Morte

Loire-Atlantique · CC Sud Retz Atlantique · INSEE 44157

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

Few services 30.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 16 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Étienne-de-Mer-Morte (INSEE 44157) is in Loire-Atlantique (44), part of CC Sud Retz Atlantique. Population 1,782 (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/44157-saint-etienne-de-mer-morte

Vitality score

Vitality score 30.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 16 % of the 10,377 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.73

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (CHEZ POLY). ^[3,4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE L'ARC EN CIEL · ECOLE STE MARIE DDEC). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (ST ETIENNE DE MER MORTE LPR RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE DES SPORTS). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	CHEZ POLY	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE L'ARC EN CIEL · ECOLE STE MARIE DDEC	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	ST ETIENNE DE MER MORTE LPR RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	SALLE DES SPORTS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 1,169 2023: 1,782 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,590 (2012) → 1,782 (2023): 12.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,041 (1990) → 1,782 (2023): 71.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 780, of which 2.7 % second homes and 6.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Pharmacy — 5.3 km SEGP — 5.4 km SEBakery — 5.6 km SE 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 (Touvois): 5.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Étienne-de-Mer-Morte): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Touvois): 5.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Touvois): 5.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Étienne-de-Mer-Morte): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

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, 9 km away at 4 m; the village itself is at 37 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, 9 km away at 4 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

An average of 827 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ST-MEME-LE-TENU, 9 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 — 44157/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44157/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44157/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44157/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 44206
INSEE BPE 2025 — 44157
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
Montbartier	82	410 km SE	1,789	32.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 81 % · humidity 79 %
Ohnenheim	67	708 km E	1,164	28.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Bazoges-en-Paillers	85	46 km E	1,555	35.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 91 %
Valros	34	559 km SE	1,685	36.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 86 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Hippolyte	17	130 km SE	1,495	30.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 85 % · humidity 57 %
Pannecé	44	73 km NE	1,439	32.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bazoges-en-Paillers	85	46 km E	1,555	35.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 91 %
Pannecé	44	73 km NE	1,439	32.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 93 %
Saint-Hippolyte	17	130 km SE	1,495	30.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 85 % · humidity 57 %
Montbartier	82	410 km SE	1,789	32.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 81 % · humidity 79 %
Valros	34	559 km SE	1,685	36.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 86 % · humidity 43 %
Ohnenheim	67	708 km E	1,164	28.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 62 % · 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-Étienne-de-Mer-Morte'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
Coësmes	35	108 km N	1,426	35.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Zegerscappel	59	533 km NE	1,562	28.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Guipel	35	152 km N	1,738	39.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Castine-en-Plaine	14	263 km NE	1,774	31.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Léger-lès-Domart	80	450 km NE	1,809	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Yzernay	49	80 km E	1,855	41.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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