Notre-Dame-de-Riez

Vendée · CA du Pays de Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie · INSEE 85189

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

Partly served 40.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 39 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Notre-Dame-de-Riez (INSEE 85189) is in Vendée (85), part of CA du Pays de Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie. Population 2,213 (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/85189-notre-dame-de-riez

Vitality score

Vitality score 40.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 39 % of the 8,944 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.79	5	3.96

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 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 DELICES DES MYRTILLES). ^[3,4]

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

2 × Café / bar (LE TABAC DU MARAIS). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE FRANCOIS-ELIE VOISIN). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CHRISTINE HESTEAU-HERITEAU, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (NOTRE DAME DE RIEZ AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE NOTRE-DAME-DE-RIEZ). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (L'ATELIER DE SAMUELLE · MILLE COULEURS). ^[3,4]

3 × Campsite (DOMAINE DES RENARDIÈRES). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 1 × Hairdresser.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LES DELICES DES MYRTILLES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	COOP	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	LE TABAC DU MARAIS	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE FRANCOIS-ELIE VOISIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	CHRISTINE HESTEAU-HERITEAU, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	NOTRE DAME DE RIEZ AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE NOTRE-DAME-DE-RIEZ	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	3	L'ATELIER DE SAMUELLE · MILLE COULEURS	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	3	DOMAINE DES RENARDIÈRES	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 650 2023: 2,213 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,957 (2012) → 2,213 (2023): 13.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 957 (1990) → 2,213 (2023): 131.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,130, of which 10.4 % second homes and 5.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school GP — 0.8 km SWFood shop — 2.7 km SPharmacy — 2.9 km S 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 (Notre-Dame-de-Riez): 0.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Le Fenouiller): 2.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Notre-Dame-de-Riez): 0.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Le Fenouiller): 2.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Notre-Dame-de-Riez): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8.3

Days at or below 0 °C 24.4

Muggy days a summer 3.1

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 24 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LE PERRIER weather station, 11.5 km away at 2 m; the village itself is at 6 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at LE PERRIER, 11.5 km away at 2 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

An average of 832 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at SAINT GILLES CR, 6 km away at 17 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 — 85189/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85189/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85189/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85189/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 85189
INSEE BPE 2025 — 85088
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
Rully	71	506 km E	1,609	35.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 64 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Étienne-du-Bois	85	26 km E	2,311	45	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 84 %
Pinet	34	564 km SE	2,049	48.9	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 10 % · winter 99 % · humidity 50 %
Belgentier	83	733 km SE	2,373	53.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Brette-les-Pins	72	213 km NE	2,131	36.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Soignolles-en-Brie	77	405 km NE	2,021	34.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 64 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Étienne-du-Bois	85	26 km E	2,311	45	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 84 %
Brette-les-Pins	72	213 km NE	2,131	36.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Soignolles-en-Brie	77	405 km NE	2,021	34.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 64 % · humidity 86 %
Rully	71	506 km E	1,609	35.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 64 % · humidity 86 %
Pinet	34	564 km SE	2,049	48.9	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 10 % · winter 99 % · humidity 50 %
Belgentier	83	733 km SE	2,373	53.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Notre-Dame-de-Riez'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-Mathurin	85	25 km SE	2,496	55.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Armel	35	143 km N	2,433	43.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
La Romagne	49	76 km NE	2,028	38.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
La Motte	22	177 km N	2,173	44.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Givrand	85	8.4 km S	2,205	46	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Vairé	85	20 km SE	1,960	43.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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