Sainte-Gemme

Identity

Sainte-Gemme (INSEE 79250) is in Deux-Sèvres (79), part of CC du Thouarsais. Population 407 (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/79250-sainte-gemme

Vitality score

Vitality score 22/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 41 % of the 18,000 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.

Services

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

1 × Restaurant (AUX 3 CARRIERES). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 387 (2012) → 407 (2023): 5.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 317 (1990) → 407 (2023): 28.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 182, of which 4.4 % second homes and 6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Pierrefitte): 3.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Varent): 3.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Varent): 4.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Varent): 4.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Luché-Thouarsais): 0.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

An average of 24 days a year at or above 30 °C and 39 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the GLENAY_SAPC weather station, 5.7 km away at 121 m; the village itself is at 130 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at BRESSUIRE, 18.7 km away at 191 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 61 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 652 mm of rain a year, spread over 108 days — about 6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at GLENAY_SAPC, 5.7 km away at 121 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

What property sold for

28 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 127,000 € — 703 € per m² of built surface. ^[12]

The median across Deux-Sèvres is 1,143 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[12]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79250/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79250/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79250/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 79250/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 79209
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 79299
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 79159
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
12. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025