Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups

Vendée · CC du Pays des Achards · INSEE 85211

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

Partly served 46.8/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 55 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups (INSEE 85211) is in Vendée (85), part of CC du Pays des Achards. Population 2,585 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 46.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 55 % of the 8,042 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	0.63	10	6.29
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.7

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 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) (LE BONHEUR DES PAPILLES). ^[3,4]

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

2 × Restaurant (FONTANET JEAN FRANCOIS · LA BELLE AVENTURE). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE DES P'TITS LOUPS). ^[3]

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (TEDDY BOURDET, MÉDECIN · GUILLAUME MALLARD, MÉDECIN · DIDIER LEBRETON, MÉDECIN · THOMAS CLOUET, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINTE FLAIVE DES LOUPS RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SAINTE-FLAIVE-DES-LOUPS). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (ESTHETICA COIFFURE · CARGAU). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Primary school (élémentaire), 1 × Pharmacy.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LE BONHEUR DES PAPILLES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	AMARSH	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	2	FONTANET JEAN FRANCOIS · LA BELLE AVENTURE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE DES P'TITS LOUPS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	4	TEDDY BOURDET, MÉDECIN · GUILLAUME MALLARD, MÉDECIN · DIDIER LEBRETON, MÉDECIN · THOMAS CLOUET, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Pharmacy	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	SAINTE FLAIVE DES LOUPS RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SAINTE-FLAIVE-DES-LOUPS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	3	ESTHETICA COIFFURE · CARGAU	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [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 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: 1,213 2023: 2,585 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,226 (2012) → 2,585 (2023): 16.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,556 (1990) → 2,585 (2023): 66.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,166, of which 3 % second homes and 6.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 6.2 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 (Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups): 0.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups): 0.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Les Achards): 6.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 13.4

Days at or below 0 °C 25.2

Muggy days a summer 2.3

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 25 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LA MOTHE ACHARD weather station, 4.3 km away at 58 m; the village itself is at 63 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at LA ROCHE SUR YON, 18.2 km away at 88 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 923 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LA MOTHE ACHARD, 4.3 km away at 58 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85211/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85211/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85211/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85211/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 85211
INSEE BPE 2025 — 85152
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
Foug	54	598 km NE	2,628	40.6	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Domagné	35	163 km N	2,491	54.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Brains	44	63 km N	2,709	49.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Castets	40	305 km S	2,516	57.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 76 % · humidity 57 %
Preignac	33	246 km SE	2,135	48.8	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 100 % · humidity 21 %
Saint-Jean-de-Liversay	17	66 km SE	3,063	38.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 95 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Brains	44	63 km N	2,709	49.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jean-de-Liversay	17	66 km SE	3,063	38.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 95 %
Domagné	35	163 km N	2,491	54.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Preignac	33	246 km SE	2,135	48.8	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 100 % · humidity 21 %
Castets	40	305 km S	2,516	57.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 76 % · humidity 57 %
Foug	54	598 km NE	2,628	40.6	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Sainte-Flaive-des-Loups'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
Domagné	35	163 km N	2,491	54.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Brains	44	63 km N	2,709	49.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Colomban	44	44 km N	3,500	38.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Bais	35	157 km N	2,539	52	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Reine-de-Bretagne	44	104 km NW	2,484	45.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Beaulieu-sous-la-Roche	85	7.7 km N	2,421	55.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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