Blou

Maine-et-Loire · CA Saumur Val de Loire · INSEE 49030

A school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink.

Few services 23.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 16 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Blou (INSEE 49030) is in Maine-et-Loire (49), part of CA Saumur Val de Loire. Population 929 (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/49030-blou

Vitality score

Vitality score 23.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 16 % of the 14,789 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	0
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.74	10	7.35
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.61

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 0 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE SIMONE VEIL). ^[3]

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

1 × Hairdresser (ZABETH R). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE SIMONE VEIL	INSEE BPE 1 [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	BLOU AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	ZABETH R	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 867 peak 2012: 1,030 2023: 929 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,030 (2012) → 929 (2023): -9.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 752 (1990) → 929 (2023): 23.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 434, of which 3.9 % second homes and 9.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.2 km SBakery — 3.5 km NGP — 4.1 km SWPharmacy — 4.3 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-Philbert-du-Peuple): 3.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Neuillé): 2.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Vivy): 4.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Vivy): 4.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Blou): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 23.8

Days at or below 0 °C 33.2

Muggy days a summer 2

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 24 days a year at or above 30 °C and 33 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the SAUMUR weather station, 12.5 km away at 69 m; the village itself is at 68 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at FONTAINE-GUERIN, 17.6 km away at 41 m, over 21 summers. ^[12]

An average of 642 mm of rain a year, spread over 110 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LONGUE, 6.2 km away at 35 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 49030/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 49030/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 49030/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 49030/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 49311
INSEE BPE 2025 — 49224
INSEE BPE 2025 — 49378
INSEE BPE 2025 — 49030
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
Élincourt-Sainte-Marguerite	60	320 km NE	922	24.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Orphin	78	191 km NE	875	21.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Marcellus	47	320 km S	892	24.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 92 % · humidity 57 %
Hartzviller	57	549 km E	934	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 38 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Girons-d'Aiguevives	33	250 km S	971	25.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Paul-du-Vernay	14	210 km N	831	24.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Orphin	78	191 km NE	875	21.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Paul-du-Vernay	14	210 km N	831	24.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Girons-d'Aiguevives	33	250 km S	971	25.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 57 %
Élincourt-Sainte-Marguerite	60	320 km NE	922	24.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Marcellus	47	320 km S	892	24.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 92 % · humidity 57 %
Hartzviller	57	549 km E	934	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 38 % · 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 Blou'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-Martin-le-Vieux	87	200 km SE	865	21.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
François	79	111 km S	999	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Vindelle	16	183 km S	1,045	23.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-de-Bernegoue	79	127 km S	806	21.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Tourriers	16	175 km S	802	35.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Courbillac	16	178 km S	725	32.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %

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