Sainte-Gemmes-sur-Loire

Maine-et-Loire · CU Angers Loire Métropole · INSEE 49278

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

Few services 37.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 12 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sainte-Gemmes-sur-Loire (INSEE 49278) is in Maine-et-Loire (49), part of CU Angers Loire Métropole. Population 3,685 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[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/49278-sainte-gemmes-sur-loire

Vitality score

Vitality score 37.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 12 % 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	0.15	25	3.69
Social	0.55	20	11.07
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.31	10	3.07
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	0.47	10	4.69
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.66

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 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 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) (LES PAINS DE MON MOULIN). ^[3,4]

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

5 × Restaurant (L'ORCHIDEE · COULEUR CAFE · LES PETITES ECURIES · DABEL · LE RESTO AU JARDIN). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (LE QG). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LES GRANDS JARDINS · ECOLE PRIVEE MIXTE). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (PAUL RICHA, MÉDECIN · SYLVIE CONSTANT, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINTE GEMMES SUR LOIRE AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SAINTE-GEMMES-SUR-LOIRE). ^[3]

3 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE DE SPORTS DES BOULAYS · LYCEE AGRICOLE DU FRESNE · COMPLEXE SPORTIF GEMMOIS). ^[3]

4 × Hairdresser (L.C.B · NATHALIE COIFFURE · AFFINITE COIFFURE · C L'ESSENTIEL). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING MUNICIPAL LE GRAND JARD). ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LES PAINS DE MON MOULIN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	SOGEDIS	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	5	L'ORCHIDEE · COULEUR CAFE · LES PETITES ECURIES · DABEL · LE RESTO AU JARDIN	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	LE QG	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LES GRANDS JARDINS · ECOLE PRIVEE MIXTE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	PAUL RICHA, MÉDECIN · SYLVIE CONSTANT, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1		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	SAINTE GEMMES SUR LOIRE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SAINTE-GEMMES-SUR-LOIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	3	SALLE DE SPORTS DES BOULAYS · LYCEE AGRICOLE DU FRESNE · COMPLEXE SPORTIF GEMMOIS	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	4	L.C.B · NATHALIE COIFFURE · AFFINITE COIFFURE · C L'ESSENTIEL	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING MUNICIPAL LE GRAND JARD	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 4,789 2023: 3,685 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 3,648 (2012) → 3,685 (2023): 1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 3,803 (1990) → 3,685 (2023): -3.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,788, of which 3.4 % second homes and 5.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 2.4 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 (Sainte-Gemmes-sur-Loire): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sainte-Gemmes-sur-Loire): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Sainte-Gemmes-sur-Loire): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Les Ponts-de-Cé): 2.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Sainte-Gemmes-sur-Loire): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.7

Days at or below 0 °C 16.6▸

Muggy days a summer 1.9

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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 17 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ANGERS VILLE weather station, 3.4 km away at 35 m; the village itself is at 29 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at BEAUCOUZE, 7.6 km away at 50 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 690 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ANGERS VILLE, 3.4 km away at 35 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 — 49278/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 49278/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 49278/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 49278/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 49278
INSEE BPE 2025 — 49246
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
Saint-Erblon	35	105 km NW	3,651	42.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Pompignac	33	286 km S	3,577	43.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 71 %
Annet-sur-Marne	77	295 km NE	3,408	43.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Just	34	555 km SE	3,293	45	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 77 % · humidity 14 %
Asnières-sur-Oise	95	287 km NE	3,127	43.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 88 % · humidity 71 %
Albigny-sur-Saône	69	446 km E	3,057	38.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 69 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Erblon	35	105 km NW	3,651	42.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Pompignac	33	286 km S	3,577	43.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 71 %
Asnières-sur-Oise	95	287 km NE	3,127	43.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 88 % · humidity 71 %
Annet-sur-Marne	77	295 km NE	3,408	43.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Albigny-sur-Saône	69	446 km E	3,057	38.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 69 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Just	34	555 km SE	3,293	45	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 77 % · humidity 14 %

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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 Sainte-Gemmes-sur-Loire'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
Les Garennes sur Loire	49	6.3 km E	4,663	56.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Bouchemaine	49	4.0 km W	6,580	48.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Magnac-sur-Touvre	16	205 km S	3,255	32.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
L'Isle-d'Espagnac	16	204 km S	5,682	51.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Ruelle-sur-Touvre	16	203 km S	7,408	56.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Échiré	79	115 km S	3,549	40.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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