Saint-Martin-Lars-en-Sainte-Hermine

Vendée · CC Sud Vendée Littoral · INSEE 85248

A food shop, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink.

No daily shops 17.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 23 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Martin-Lars-en-Sainte-Hermine (INSEE 85248) is in Vendée (85), part of CC Sud Vendée Littoral. Population 419 (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 17.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 23 % of the 17,969 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	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.49	10	4.86
Housing mix	0.59	5	2.94

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 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, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (ST MARTIN LARS EN STE HERMINE AP). ^[3]

1 × Campsite. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Campsite.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	ST MARTIN LARS EN STE HERMINE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 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	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 607 2023: 419 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 404 (2012) → 419 (2023): 3.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 425 (1990) → 419 (2023): -1.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 277, of which 20.6 % second homes and 8.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 2.5 km SWPrimary school — 3.7 km WFood shop — 6.2 km NEGP — 6.6 km SWPharmacy — 7.3 km SW 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-Juire-Champgillon): 2.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Caillère-Saint-Hilaire): 6.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Jean-d'Hermine): 6.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Jean-d'Hermine): 7.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Juire-Champgillon): 3.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 24.4

Days at or below 0 °C 38.9

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

Measured at the CHANTONNAY weather station, 12.5 km away at 93 m; the village itself is at 66 m. ^[11]

An average of 895 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CHANTONNAY, 12.5 km away at 93 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85248/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85248/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85248/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85248/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 85235
INSEE BPE 2025 — 85040
INSEE BPE 2025 — 85223
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
Saint-Denis-du-Payré	85	30 km SW	434	17.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 81 %
Charette-Varennes	71	472 km E	430	18	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 91 %
Blot-l'Église	63	309 km E	436	26.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 14 %
Le Vast	50	338 km N	321	20.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 41 % · winter 62 %
Dammartin-Marpain	39	501 km E	340	24.2	Few services	no figures
Apremont-la-Forêt	55	555 km NE	427	28.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 31 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Denis-du-Payré	85	30 km SW	434	17.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 81 %
Blot-l'Église	63	309 km E	436	26.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 14 %
Le Vast	50	338 km N	321	20.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 41 % · winter 62 %
Charette-Varennes	71	472 km E	430	18	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 91 %
Dammartin-Marpain	39	501 km E	340	24.2	Few services	no figures
Apremont-la-Forêt	55	555 km NE	427	28.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 31 %

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Elsewhere

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