Pouillé

Vendée · CC du Pays de Fontenay-Vendée · INSEE 85181

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

Partly served 46.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 89 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Pouillé (INSEE 85181) is in Vendée (85), part of CC du Pays de Fontenay-Vendée. Population 630 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 46.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 89 % of the 16,846 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.75	10	7.48
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.74

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 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (AU LUMA BENAISE). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (AU PETIT BONHEUR LA CHANCE). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE JACQUES PREVERT). ^[3]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE POUILLÉ). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant, 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	1	AU LUMA BENAISE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	AU PETIT BONHEUR LA CHANCE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE JACQUES PREVERT	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	POUILLE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE POUILLÉ	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 564 peak 2012: 657 2023: 630 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 657 (2012) → 630 (2023): -4.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 505 (1990) → 630 (2023): 24.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 304, of which 2.6 % second homes and 7.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 0.6 km NWGP — 3.6 km EFood shop — 3.7 km EPharmacy — 3.7 km NE 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 (Pouillé): 0.6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (L'Hermenault): 3.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (L'Hermenault): 3.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (L'Hermenault): 3.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Pouillé): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21.3

Days at or below 0 °C 30.4

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

Measured at the FONTENAY weather station, 14.2 km away at 20 m; the village itself is at 53 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at FONTENAY, 14.2 km away at 20 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

An average of 874 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at FONTENAY LE COM, 13.2 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 — 85181/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85181/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85181/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85181/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 85181
INSEE BPE 2025 — 85110
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
Les Islettes	55	530 km NE	695	41.4	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 57 %
Nanton	71	441 km E	666	48	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 51 % · humidity 71 %
Marcillé-Raoul	35	215 km N	749	44.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Marcillé-la-Ville	53	203 km N	758	45	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Juvardeil	49	132 km N	833	44.3	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Solomiac	32	333 km SE	496	54	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 73 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Juvardeil	49	132 km N	833	44.3	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Marcillé-la-Ville	53	203 km N	758	45	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Marcillé-Raoul	35	215 km N	749	44.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Solomiac	32	333 km SE	496	54	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 73 % · humidity 43 %
Nanton	71	441 km E	666	48	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 51 % · humidity 71 %
Les Islettes	55	530 km NE	695	41.4	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 57 %

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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 Pouillé'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
Thoury-Férottes	77	354 km NE	649	41.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Usseau	86	118 km E	573	37.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Louans	37	149 km NE	709	43.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Chamelet	69	424 km E	706	46.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Trébons	65	388 km S	760	38.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Roiffé	86	103 km NE	747	39.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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