Villebernier

Maine-et-Loire · CA Saumur Val de Loire · INSEE 49374

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

Few services 35.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 36 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Villebernier (INSEE 49374) is in Maine-et-Loire (49), part of CA Saumur Val de Loire. Population 1,441 (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/49374-villebernier

Vitality score

Vitality score 35.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 36 % of the 11,943 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	0.6	10	6.03
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.67

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 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]

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

2 × Restaurant (PITOIS MANUELLA · AUX PETITES ETOILES). ^[4,3]

1 × Café / bar. ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE JEAN DARCHIS). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (VILLEBERNIER AP). ^[4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE VILLEBERNIER LIRE DÉ-LIVRE). ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser (MELINDA COIFFURE). ^[4,3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	API VILLEBERNIER	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	2	PITOIS MANUELLA · AUX PETITES ETOILES	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,3]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE JEAN DARCHIS	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	VILLEBERNIER AP	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE VILLEBERNIER LIRE DÉ-LIVRE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	1	MELINDA COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,137 peak 2017: 1,490 2023: 1,441 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,468 (2012) → 1,441 (2023): -1.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,306 (1990) → 1,441 (2023): 10.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 642, of which 3.3 % second homes and 7.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 2.6 km WBakery — 2.9 km WPharmacy — 2.9 km W 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 (Saumur): 2.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Villebernier): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saumur): 2.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saumur): 2.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Villebernier): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

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 2.2

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. ^[10]

Measured at the SAUMUR weather station, 3.3 km away at 69 m; the village itself is at 28 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at MONT-BELLAY-INRAE, 16 km away at 58 m, over 24 summers. ^[10]

An average of 657 mm of rain a year, spread over 109 days — about 6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at SAUMUR, 3.3 km away at 69 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 — 49374/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 49374/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 49374/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 49374/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 49328
INSEE BPE 2025 — 49374
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
Prée-d'Anjou	53	88 km NW	1,381	41.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 88 %
Vergigny	89	292 km E	1,486	31.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Sauveur	33	236 km S	1,245	32.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 80 % · humidity 64 %
Briennon	42	337 km E	1,710	37.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 42 % · humidity 100 %
Périgneux	42	379 km SE	1,621	39.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 62 % · humidity 14 %
Effiat	63	285 km SE	1,124	37.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 51 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Prée-d'Anjou	53	88 km NW	1,381	41.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 74 % · winter 88 %
Saint-Sauveur	33	236 km S	1,245	32.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 80 % · humidity 64 %
Effiat	63	285 km SE	1,124	37.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 51 % · humidity 100 %
Vergigny	89	292 km E	1,486	31.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Briennon	42	337 km E	1,710	37.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 42 % · humidity 100 %
Périgneux	42	379 km SE	1,621	39.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 62 % · 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 Villebernier'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-Saturnin	16	177 km S	1,284	38.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Faye-l'Abbesse	79	53 km SW	1,131	34.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Romain-d'Ay	07	429 km SE	1,164	33.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Colombe-en-Bruilhois	47	345 km S	1,546	29.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Mensignac	24	230 km S	1,521	34.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Suèvres	41	121 km NE	1,564	40.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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