Geneston

Loire-Atlantique · CC Grand Lieu Communauté · INSEE 44223

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

Partly served 48.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 47 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Geneston (INSEE 44223) is in Loire-Atlantique (44), part of CC Grand Lieu Communauté. Population 3,685 (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/44223-geneston

Vitality score

Vitality score 48.9/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 47 % of the 6,028 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	0.25	25	6.24
Social	0.55	20	11.07
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	0.99	5	4.96

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 3 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]

3 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE VRIGNAUD PERE & F · SARL BOULANGERIE PICARD). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Supermarket (ALDI MARCHE). ^[3,4]

5 × Restaurant (FSH · RESTAURANT LE PELICAN · HA MY · SAHIN KEBAB · 3X CRISPY). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (PYLGE · LES ARCADES). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE MARCEL PAGNOL · ECOLE LIBRE MIXTE STE M-MADELEINE DDEC). ^[3]

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (LAURA FRIEDEMANN, MÉDECIN · ENORA CONAN, MÉDECIN · ALICE PIEL-DESRUISSEAUX, MÉDECIN · ANGELIQUE ROUYER, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE COCHARD GUENON). ^[3,4]

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

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

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

1 × Bank (CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT MUTUEL DE LOIRE- ATLANTIQUE ET DU CENTRE OUEST). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (GENEST TIF · L'ATELIER DE LAETITIA). ^[3,4]

2 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	3	BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE VRIGNAUD PERE & F · SARL BOULANGERIE PICARD	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	GENEST	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	ALDI MARCHE	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	5	FSH · RESTAURANT LE PELICAN · HA MY · SAHIN KEBAB · 3X CRISPY	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	PYLGE · LES ARCADES	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE MARCEL PAGNOL · ECOLE LIBRE MIXTE STE M-MADELEINE DDEC	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	4	LAURA FRIEDEMANN, MÉDECIN · ENORA CONAN, MÉDECIN · ALICE PIEL-DESRUISSEAUX, MÉDECIN · ANGELIQUE ROUYER, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE COCHARD GUENON	INSEE BPE 1 / 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 MOTS PASSANTS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	1	CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT MUTUEL DE LOIRE- ATLANTIQUE ET DU CENTRE OUEST	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Hairdresser	3	GENEST TIF · L'ATELIER DE LAETITIA	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Fuel station	2	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 952 2023: 3,685 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 3,592 (2012) → 3,685 (2023): 2.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,958 (1990) → 3,685 (2023): 88.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,576, of which 0.4 % second homes and 4.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 1.0 km E 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 (Geneston): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

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

GP (Geneston): 1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Geneston): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Geneston): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12.9

Days at or below 0 °C 28.2

Muggy days a summer 2.7

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 28 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the NANTES-BOUGUENAIS weather station, 12.7 km away at 26 m; the village itself is at 30 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at NANTES-BOUGUENAIS, 12.7 km away at 26 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

An average of 827 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at AIGREFEUILLE, 9.4 km away at 35 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44223/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44223/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44223/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44223/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 44223
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
Chavagnes-en-Paillers	85	27 km SE	3,726	40.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 80 %
Orcines	63	375 km E	3,609	48.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 26 % · humidity 79 %
Montreuil-Bellay	49	103 km E	3,746	50.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Durtal	49	118 km NE	3,386	48.4	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Maringues	63	392 km E	3,141	44.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 45 % · humidity 93 %
Boisseuil	87	261 km SE	3,010	45.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Chavagnes-en-Paillers	85	27 km SE	3,726	40.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 80 %
Montreuil-Bellay	49	103 km E	3,746	50.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Durtal	49	118 km NE	3,386	48.4	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Boisseuil	87	261 km SE	3,010	45.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Orcines	63	375 km E	3,609	48.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 26 % · humidity 79 %
Maringues	63	392 km E	3,141	44.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 45 % · 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 Geneston'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
Argentré-du-Plessis	35	115 km N	4,633	50.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Breteil	35	125 km N	3,675	37.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Léger-de-Linières	49	76 km NE	3,866	49.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Ruaudin	72	166 km NE	3,481	51.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Nouvoitou	35	110 km N	3,911	42.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Père-en-Retz	44	43 km NW	4,894	49.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

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