Saint-Valérien

Vendée · CC du Pays de Fontenay-Vendée · INSEE 85274

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

Few services 21/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 26 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Valérien (INSEE 85274) is in Vendée (85), part of CC du Pays de Fontenay-Vendée. Population 557 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/85274-saint-valerien

Vitality score

Vitality score 21/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 26 % of the 17,464 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	25	0
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.76	10	7.57
Housing mix	0.79	5	3.97

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

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

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LES RULIÈRES). ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 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)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	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	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	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	CAMPING LES RULIÈRES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 522 2023: 557 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 506 (2012) → 557 (2023): 10.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 443 (1990) → 557 (2023): 25.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 292, of which 10.3 % second homes and 4.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.2 km SWFood shop — 3.2 km EGP — 3.2 km EPharmacy — 3.2 km E 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): 2.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (L'Hermenault): 3.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (L'Hermenault): 3.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (L'Hermenault): 3.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Valérien): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

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. ^[11]

Measured at the FONTENAY weather station, 15.1 km away at 20 m; the village itself is at 50 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at FONTENAY, 15.1 km away at 20 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

An average of 874 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at FONTENAY LE COM, 13.8 km away at 35 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 — 85274/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85274/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85274/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85274/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 85181
INSEE BPE 2025 — 85110
INSEE BPE 2025 — 85274
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
Thiré	85	5.6 km NW	532	20.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 99 %
Bricqueville-la-Blouette	50	282 km N	530	18.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Gurcy-le-Châtel	77	372 km NE	559	24.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Teurthéville-Bocage	50	343 km N	594	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Léchelle	77	397 km NE	572	20.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Montaud	38	522 km E	530	24	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 1 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Thiré	85	5.6 km NW	532	20.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 99 %
Bricqueville-la-Blouette	50	282 km N	530	18.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Teurthéville-Bocage	50	343 km N	594	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Gurcy-le-Châtel	77	372 km NE	559	24.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Léchelle	77	397 km NE	572	20.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Montaud	38	522 km E	530	24	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 1 % · humidity 86 %

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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-Valérien'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-Étienne-de-Brillouet	85	4.6 km W	616	24	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Brice	53	153 km N	517	20.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Quentin-sur-Indrois	37	167 km NE	484	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Mareil-sur-Loir	72	150 km NE	653	21.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Noisy-Rudignon	77	354 km NE	580	21.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Laurs	79	27 km E	615	22.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %

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