Saint-Saëns

Seine-Maritime · CC Bray-Eawy · INSEE 76648

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

Served 64.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 97 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Saëns (INSEE 76648) is in Seine-Maritime (76), part of CC Bray-Eawy. Population 2,298 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/76648-saint-saens

Vitality score

Vitality score 64.7/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 97 % of the 8,739 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	0.47	25	11.83
Social	0.88	20	17.59
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.68	10	6.82
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.57	10	5.75
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.75

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE LEROY). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE DU CENTRE). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LEADER PRICE BY CASINO). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (CARREFOUR MARKET). ^[3,4]

8 × Restaurant (PIZZA DELICE · DELICE PIZZA SAINT SAENS · LA BONNE ADRESSE · CHEZ NICOLAS). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar (LE FONTENOY · LE MAINTENON). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE LA VARENNE · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PRIVEE SAINTE MARIE). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE GUILLAUME LE CONQUERANT). ^[3]

7 × GP (médecin généraliste) (PAUL-MARIE LAMBERT, MÉDECIN · JULIETTE BRUMENT, MÉDECIN · VIRGINIE RENEE, MÉDECIN · MARIE-LAURE THIBAUT, MÉDECIN · CHRISTOPHE STEINBERG, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE LA VARENNE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE SIMONE ET JACQUES VALLÈS DE SAINT-SAËNS). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF DU VAL DE BOULOGNE). ^[3]

3 × Bank (CAISSE LOCALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL · CAISSE D'EPARGNE ET DE PREVOYANCE DE NORMANDIE · CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL DE NORMANDIE-SEINE). ^[3]

6 × Hairdresser (MD COIFFURE · STEPHANIE · VARENNE COIFFURE VALERIE LEJEUNE). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

1 × Hotel (GOLF DE ST SAENS). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie), 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE LEROY	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BOUCHERIE DU CENTRE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	LEADER PRICE BY CASINO	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	CARREFOUR MARKET	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	8	PIZZA DELICE · DELICE PIZZA SAINT SAENS · LA BONNE ADRESSE · CHEZ NICOLAS	INSEE BPE 8 / INSEE SIRENE 10 [3,4]
Café / bar	3	LE FONTENOY · LE MAINTENON	INSEE SIRENE 3 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE LA VARENNE · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PRIVEE SAINTE MARIE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE GUILLAUME LE CONQUERANT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	7	PAUL-MARIE LAMBERT, MÉDECIN · JULIETTE BRUMENT, MÉDECIN · VIRGINIE RENEE, MÉDECIN · MARIE-LAURE THIBAUT, MÉDECIN · CHRISTOPHE STEINBERG, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 7 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE LA VARENNE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE SIMONE ET JACQUES VALLÈS DE SAINT-SAËNS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF DU VAL DE BOULOGNE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	3	CAISSE LOCALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL · CAISSE D'EPARGNE ET DE PREVOYANCE DE NORMANDIE · CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL DE NORMANDIE-SEINE	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Hairdresser	6	MD COIFFURE · STEPHANIE · VARENNE COIFFURE VALERIE LEJEUNE	INSEE BPE 6 / INSEE SIRENE 7 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	1	GOLF DE ST SAENS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 2,463 peak 1999: 2,553 2023: 2,298 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,534 (2012) → 2,298 (2023): -9.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 2,138 (1990) → 2,298 (2023): 7.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,215, of which 2.5 % second homes and 8.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 0.5 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 (Saint-Saëns): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Saëns): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Saëns): 0.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Saëns): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Saëns): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 7.7

Days at or below 0 °C 37.3

Muggy days a summer 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 8 days a year at or above 30 °C and 37 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the BUCHY weather station, 11.3 km away at 211 m; the village itself is at 106 m. ^[9]

The village sits 105 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at BOUELLES, 17.1 km away at 232 m, over 19 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 126 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 1,014 mm of rain a year, spread over 147 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at ST-SAENS, 1.5 km away at 120 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 76648/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 76648/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 76648/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 76648/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 76648
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
Bray-sur-Seine	77	200 km SE	2,344	65.4	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Braine	02	167 km E	2,248	61.1	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Fruges	62	111 km NE	2,362	63.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Frangy	74	534 km SE	2,262	62.2	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Dannemarie	68	485 km SE	2,248	68.7	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Cavignac	33	524 km S	2,372	73.2	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 89 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Fruges	62	111 km NE	2,362	63.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Braine	02	167 km E	2,248	61.1	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Bray-sur-Seine	77	200 km SE	2,344	65.4	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Dannemarie	68	485 km SE	2,248	68.7	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Cavignac	33	524 km S	2,372	73.2	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 89 % · humidity 50 %
Frangy	74	534 km SE	2,262	62.2	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Saint-Saëns'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
Fruges	62	111 km NE	2,362	63.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Potigny	14	136 km SW	2,089	60.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Pré-en-Pail-Saint-Samson	53	173 km SW	2,273	55.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Avelin	59	160 km NE	2,561	60.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Brécey	50	207 km SW	2,172	60.8	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Criquetot-l'Esneval	76	73 km W	2,668	62.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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