Sallertaine

Vendée · CC Challans-Gois Communauté · INSEE 85280

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

Partly served 50.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 55 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sallertaine (INSEE 85280) is in Vendée (85), part of CC Challans-Gois Communauté. Population 3,518 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/85280-sallertaine

Vitality score

Vitality score 50.5/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 55 % of the 6,253 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	0.22	25	5.53
Social	0.72	20	14.46
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.43	10	4.27
Public & culture	0.11	5	0.55
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.84	5	4.18

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 1 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) (BOULANGERIE DE QUARTIER). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (GAUTIER). ^[3]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (VDB85). ^[3,4]

10 × Restaurant (STEAM TRUCK · LE MARAIS GOURMAND · WOK 85). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar (CAFE DE LA MAIRIE · LE RELAIS DES 4 MOULINS). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINTE MARIE). ^[3]

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CHARLÈNE FOSSEY, MÉDECIN · AUDE MICHALEWICZ, MÉDECIN · THERESE MICHON-DIAKITE, MÉDECIN · LAURENT BRUTUS, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE ATTICUS). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SALLERTAINE AP). ^[3]

2 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF · SALLE DU GRAND ETIER). ^[3]

4 × Hairdresser (LE SALON DE JOCE · AUX CISEAUX D'AUDREY). ^[3,4]

2 × Campsite (LES P'TITES MAISONS DANS LA PRAIRIE · BEL AIR -HOLIDAY PARK). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BOULANGERIE DE QUARTIER	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	GAUTIER	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	VDB85	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	10	STEAM TRUCK · LE MARAIS GOURMAND · WOK 85	INSEE BPE 10 / INSEE SIRENE 13 [3,4]
Café / bar	3	CAFE DE LA MAIRIE · LE RELAIS DES 4 MOULINS	INSEE SIRENE 3 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINTE MARIE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	4	CHARLÈNE FOSSEY, MÉDECIN · AUDE MICHALEWICZ, MÉDECIN · THERESE MICHON-DIAKITE, MÉDECIN · LAURENT BRUTUS, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE ATTICUS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	SALLERTAINE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	2	COMPLEXE SPORTIF · SALLE DU GRAND ETIER	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	4	LE SALON DE JOCE · AUX CISEAUX D'AUDREY	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	2	LES P'TITES MAISONS DANS LA PRAIRIE · BEL AIR -HOLIDAY PARK	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]

Market and village life

Monthly market (reported, unverified): Friday 16h à 20h sous les halles (seasonal). See the source for which week of the month. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 1,784 2023: 3,518 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,832 (2012) → 3,518 (2023): 24.2 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 2,245 (1990) → 3,518 (2023): 56.7 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,843, of which 8.2 % second homes and 5.7 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 4.5 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 (Sallertaine): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Sallertaine): 4.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Sallertaine): 0.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Sallertaine): 0.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Sallertaine): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

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 km away at 2 m; the village itself is at 4 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at LE PERRIER, 5 km away at 2 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

An average of 745 mm of rain a year, spread over 115 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LE PERRIER, 5 km away at 2 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

The market day comes from the commune's own website and has not been confirmed by a second source. ^[5]

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85280/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
Commune website 2026-10— https://www.sallertaine.fr/decouvrir/a-voir-a-faire/marches— “D'octobre à juin, le marché des producteurs vous accueille sous les halles chaque troisième vendredi du mois , de 16h à 20h.”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85280/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85280/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 85280/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 85280
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
Quettreville-sur-Sienne	50	237 km N	3,167	47.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Molf	44	69 km NW	2,870	59.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Rupt-sur-Moselle	88	659 km E	3,419	40.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 20 % · humidity 86 %
Morannes sur Sarthe-Daumeray	49	152 km NE	3,687	53	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 74 %
Saint-Sauveur-Villages	50	256 km N	3,208	43.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Évellys	56	142 km NW	3,379	44.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Molf	44	69 km NW	2,870	59.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Évellys	56	142 km NW	3,379	44.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Morannes sur Sarthe-Daumeray	49	152 km NE	3,687	53	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 74 %
Quettreville-sur-Sienne	50	237 km N	3,167	47.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Sauveur-Villages	50	256 km N	3,208	43.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Rupt-sur-Moselle	88	659 km E	3,419	40.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 20 % · 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 Sallertaine'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
Quettreville-sur-Sienne	50	237 km N	3,167	47.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Molf	44	69 km NW	2,870	59.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Sauveur-Villages	50	256 km N	3,208	43.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Évellys	56	142 km NW	3,379	44.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Bois-de-Céné	85	10 km NE	2,256	60.8	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Plumelec	56	120 km NW	2,754	68	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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