Les Touches

Loire-Atlantique · CC d'Erdre et Gesvres · INSEE 44205

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

Partly served 47.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 57 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Les Touches (INSEE 44205) is in Loire-Atlantique (44), part of CC d'Erdre et Gesvres. Population 2,638 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/44205-les-touches

Vitality score

Vitality score 47.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 57 % of the 7,925 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	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.86	10	8.63
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.79

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 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). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (TOUCHES & TERRES). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (GRANA NORT · LES PIPELETTES). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE P TIT BISTROT). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LES MOULINS DE JUILLET · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE LE SACRE-COEUR). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DES TOUCHES). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LES TOUCHES RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE LES TOUCHES MILLE ET UNE PAGES). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF JEAN DEQUIPPE). ^[3]

4 × Hairdresser (CREASTYL COIFFURE · AFFINI'TIF · COIFF & CO). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	TOUCHES & TERRES	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	2	GRANA NORT · LES PIPELETTES	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE P TIT BISTROT	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LES MOULINS DE JUILLET · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE LE SACRE-COEUR	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DES TOUCHES	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	LES TOUCHES RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE LES TOUCHES MILLE ET UNE PAGES	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF JEAN DEQUIPPE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	4	CREASTYL COIFFURE · AFFINI'TIF · COIFF & CO	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [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: 1,326 2023: 2,638 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,415 (2012) → 2,638 (2023): 9.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,935 (1990) → 2,638 (2023): 36.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,136, of which 2.1 % second homes and 5.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 3.8 km WPharmacy — 3.8 km W 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 (Les Touches): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Les Touches): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Nort-sur-Erdre): 3.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Nort-sur-Erdre): 3.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Les Touches): 0.1 km to the north-east (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. ^[10]

Measured at the NORT-SUR-ERDRE weather station, 6.4 km away at 13 m; the village itself is at 25 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at NORT-SUR-ERDRE, 6.4 km away at 13 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

An average of 769 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at NORT-SUR-ERDRE, 6.4 km away at 13 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 — 44205/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44205/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44205/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44205/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 44205
INSEE BPE 2025 — 44110
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
Beaumont Saint-Cyr	86	161 km SE	2,908	56.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Septème	38	535 km E	2,186	46.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Hénon	22	141 km NW	2,310	49.1	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Fégréac	44	49 km W	2,243	44.9	Partly served	no figures
Corsept	44	51 km W	2,594	51.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Morbecque	59	462 km NE	2,573	54.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Fégréac	44	49 km W	2,243	44.9	Partly served	no figures
Corsept	44	51 km W	2,594	51.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Hénon	22	141 km NW	2,310	49.1	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Beaumont Saint-Cyr	86	161 km SE	2,908	56.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Morbecque	59	462 km NE	2,573	54.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Septème	38	535 km E	2,186	46.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 93 % · 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 Les Touches'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
Beaumont Saint-Cyr	86	161 km SE	2,908	56.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Corsept	44	51 km W	2,594	51.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Anne-sur-Brivet	44	43 km W	3,063	43.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Saffré	44	13 km NW	4,115	40.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Gambais	78	274 km NE	2,574	51.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
La Meilleraye-de-Bretagne	44	13 km N	1,606	48.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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