La Grigonnais

Loire-Atlantique · CC de Nozay · INSEE 44224

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

Partly served 46.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 63 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Grigonnais (INSEE 44224) is in Loire-Atlantique (44), part of CC de Nozay. Population 1,828 (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/44224-la-grigonnais

Vitality score

Vitality score 46.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 63 % of the 10,198 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	0.34	25	8.55
Social	0.39	20	7.87
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	4.75

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 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (GUITTENY). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (MAISON COSSARD S.A.S). ^[3]

2 × Cheese shop (fromagerie) (FROMAGERIE DES ROCHETTES). ^[4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (BLACK & WHITE BAR). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LES MARRONNIERS · ECOLE SAINT MICHEL DDEC). ^[3]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE LE CIRQUE DES PAGES). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (PETIT MARC · PRIS'COIFF'). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	GUITTENY	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	MAISON COSSARD S.A.S	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	2	FROMAGERIE DES ROCHETTES	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	BLACK & WHITE BAR	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LES MARRONNIERS · ECOLE SAINT MICHEL 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	LA GRIGONNAIS AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE LE CIRQUE DES PAGES	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	2	PETIT MARC · PRIS'COIFF'	INSEE BPE 2 / 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: 780 2023: 1,828 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,587 (2012) → 1,828 (2023): 15.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,016 (1990) → 1,828 (2023): 79.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 759, of which 2.5 % second homes and 4.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 3.8 km EPharmacy — 5.4 km NE 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 (La Grigonnais): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Grigonnais): 0.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Puceul): 3.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Nozay): 5.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (La Grigonnais): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 17.5

Days at or below 0 °C 50.9

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 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 51 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the BLAIN weather station, 9.7 km away at 13 m; the village itself is at 48 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at NORT-SUR-ERDRE, 16.1 km away at 13 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

An average of 885 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at NOZAY, 6.8 km away at 44 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44224/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44224/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44224/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 44224/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 44224
INSEE BPE 2025 — 44138
INSEE BPE 2025 — 44113
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
Boisgervilly	35	77 km NW	1,804	41.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Lantic	22	150 km NW	1,814	43.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 51 % · humidity 93 %
Coëtmieux	22	128 km NW	1,869	48	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Remouillé	44	57 km SE	1,932	53.4	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 74 %
Herrlisheim-près-Colmar	68	674 km E	1,911	36.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Erbrée	35	76 km NE	1,703	36.9	Few services	no figures

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Remouillé	44	57 km SE	1,932	53.4	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 74 %
Erbrée	35	76 km NE	1,703	36.9	Few services	no figures
Boisgervilly	35	77 km NW	1,804	41.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Coëtmieux	22	128 km NW	1,869	48	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Lantic	22	150 km NW	1,814	43.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 51 % · humidity 93 %
Herrlisheim-près-Colmar	68	674 km E	1,911	36.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 80 % · 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 La Grigonnais'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
Saint-Paul-de-Varax	01	541 km E	1,634	39.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Malô-du-Bois	85	88 km SE	1,612	47.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Tuffé Val de la Chéronne	72	176 km NE	1,680	43.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Longecourt-en-Plaine	21	515 km E	1,177	37.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Antoine-du-Rocher	37	173 km E	1,824	41.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Les Rairies	49	111 km E	1,041	43.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

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