La Plaine

Maine-et-Loire · CA Cholet Agglomération · INSEE 49240

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

Few services 37.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 54 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Plaine (INSEE 49240) is in Maine-et-Loire (49), part of CA Cholet Agglomération. Population 1,018 (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/49240-la-plaine

Vitality score

Vitality score 37.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 54 % of the 14,205 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	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.75	10	7.46
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.78

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 1 of 2

Everyday services 0 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]

2 × Restaurant (O GOURMAND · LE PLAINAIS). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LA BONANZA). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE FRANCOIS DENECHERE). ^[3]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE LA PLAINE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (STADE DE LA MONGILLE). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), 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)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	2	O GOURMAND · LE PLAINAIS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LA BONANZA	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE FRANCOIS DENECHERE	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	LA PLAINE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE LA PLAINE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	STADE DE LA MONGILLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 729 2023: 1,018 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,007 (2012) → 1,018 (2023): 1.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 817 (1990) → 1,018 (2023): 24.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 465, of which 2.2 % second homes and 7.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 4.5 km SEGP — 6.8 km NPharmacy — 6.8 km N 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 Plaine): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Somloire): 4.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Coron): 6.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Coron): 6.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (La Plaine): 0.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.6

Days at or below 0 °C 32.4

Muggy days a summer 1.7

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 32 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ST GEORGES GARD weather station, 12.2 km away at 203 m; the village itself is at 181 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at CHOLET, 18.6 km away at 134 m, over 24 summers. ^[11]

An average of 865 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ST GEORGES GARD, 12.2 km away at 203 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 — 49240/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 49240/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 49240/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 49240/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 49240
INSEE BPE 2025 — 49336
INSEE BPE 2025 — 49109
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
Corcelles-en-Beaujolais	69	422 km E	1,001	37.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 81 % · humidity 71 %
Anjou	38	466 km E	1,031	35.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 26 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Sivry-Courtry	77	301 km NE	1,124	39	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Pouilly-lès-Feurs	42	399 km E	1,231	38.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Gros-Réderching	57	624 km NE	1,266	38.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 31 % · humidity 93 %
Zellwiller	67	626 km E	808	45.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sivry-Courtry	77	301 km NE	1,124	39	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Pouilly-lès-Feurs	42	399 km E	1,231	38.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Corcelles-en-Beaujolais	69	422 km E	1,001	37.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 81 % · humidity 71 %
Anjou	38	466 km E	1,031	35.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 26 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Gros-Réderching	57	624 km NE	1,266	38.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 31 % · humidity 93 %
Zellwiller	67	626 km E	808	45.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 84 % · 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 Plaine'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
Torcé	35	120 km NW	1,281	43.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jean-du-Cardonnay	76	297 km NE	1,356	35.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Oizé	72	100 km NE	1,322	37.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Villeperdue	37	97 km E	1,126	43.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Antigny	85	51 km S	1,027	29.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Coulombiers	86	90 km SE	1,155	39.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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