Saint-Urbain

Vendée · CC Challans-Gois Communauté · INSEE 85273

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

Few services 39.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 37 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Urbain (INSEE 85273) is in Vendée (85), part of CC Challans-Gois Communauté. Population 2,000 (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/85273-saint-urbain

Vitality score

Vitality score 39.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 37 % of the 9,636 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.39	20	7.77
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.82	5	4.08

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 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). ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (MASTE · TARA). ^[3,4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE L'AVOCETTE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINT JOSEPH). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (FREDERIC CHARPENTIER, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (CA DECOIFFE). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING MUNICIPAL LA FONTAINE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	3	MASTE · TARA	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE L'AVOCETTE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINT JOSEPH	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	FREDERIC CHARPENTIER, 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	2	CA DECOIFFE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	CAMPING MUNICIPAL LA FONTAINE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 580 2023: 2,000 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,734 (2012) → 2,000 (2023): 15.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 621 (1990) → 2,000 (2023): 222.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 960, of which 9.2 % second homes and 5.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP Food shop — 3.1 km NPharmacy — 3.1 km N 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-Urbain): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Gervais): 3.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Urbain): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Gervais): 3.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Urbain): 0.2 km to the north-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, 5.5 km away at 2 m; the village itself is at 3 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at LE PERRIER, 5.5 km away at 2 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

An average of 843 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BEAUVOIR SUR MER, 4.7 km away at 10 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 — 85273/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85273/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85273/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85273/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 85273
INSEE BPE 2025 — 85221
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
Furdenheim	67	741 km E	1,620	43.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Stutzheim-Offenheim	67	746 km E	1,607	42	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Ahetze	64	387 km S	2,104	45.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 7 %
Rochegude	26	607 km SE	1,678	39.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Thonan	29	249 km NW	1,956	39.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Le Castelet	14	277 km NE	1,850	30.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Thonan	29	249 km NW	1,956	39.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Le Castelet	14	277 km NE	1,850	30.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Ahetze	64	387 km S	2,104	45.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 7 %
Rochegude	26	607 km SE	1,678	39.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Furdenheim	67	741 km E	1,620	43.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Stutzheim-Offenheim	67	746 km E	1,607	42	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 54 % · 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 Saint-Urbain'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
Le Castelet	14	277 km NE	1,850	30.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Aubin-Routot	76	342 km NE	1,972	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Lassy	35	123 km N	1,841	39.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Winnezeele	59	553 km NE	1,261	27.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Landrévarzec	29	205 km NW	1,882	45	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Locqueltas	56	114 km NW	2,031	53.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

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