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L'Île-Saint-Denis

Seine-Saint-Denis · Métropole du Grand Paris · INSEE 93039

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

Partly served 54.2/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 48 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

L'Île-Saint-Denis (INSEE 93039) is in Seine-Saint-Denis (93), part of Métropole du Grand Paris. Population 8,696 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Grands centres urbains (level 1). [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/93039-l-ile-saint-denis

Vitality score

Vitality score 54.2/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Grocery (épicerie / supérette)).

Better served than 48 % of the 2,824 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0.492512.19
Social0.612012.14
Education0.53105.28
Health0.37103.74
Public & culture0.2251.11
Population trend0.67106.73
Housing mix0.9754.86

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6
Eating out 1 of 1
Cafés and bars 1 of 1
Schools 3 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]

3 × Bakery (boulangerie) (JEFF DE BRUGES - MARTIAL · LINDT ET SPRUNGLI · LE FOURNIL DE L'ILE). [3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BELMA). [3,4]

5 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (ELA VOLTAIRE · ILOT GRAMME · ELA BOUFFEMONT · R.K.S). [3,4]

1 × Supermarket (ELA IMMO SAINT-OUEN). [3,4]

20 × Restaurant (AIT IMGHOUR · MOMMA · SARL OCA · MOHAMMED MEHEDY HASAN · CHICKEN SPOT). [3,4]

1 × Café / bar (TABAC DE LA MAIRIE). [4]

2 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PAUL LANGEVIN · ECOLE MATERNELLE PUB SAMIRA BELLIL). [3]

3 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PAUL LANGEVIN · ECOLE PRIMAIRE JEAN LURCAT · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUB SAMIRA BELLIL). [3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE ALFRED SISLEY). [3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (KATELL MARTIN, MÉDECIN · RAHIF SABBAGH, MÉDECIN · DAVID OUANOUNOU, MÉDECIN). [3]

1 × Pharmacy (SELARL PHARMACIE KANN). [3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). [3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE ELSA TRIOLET). [3]

3 × Gym / sports hall (CENTRE SPORTIF DE L ILE DES VANNES · GYMNASE ALICE MILLIAT · MAIRIE). [3]

3 × Hairdresser (YASMINE · SALON MASSA COIFFURE · L'ATELIER DU BARBER). [3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 8 × Restaurant.

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)3JEFF DE BRUGES - MARTIAL · LINDT ET SPRUNGLI · LE FOURNIL DE L'ILEINSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)1BELMAINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)5ELA VOLTAIRE · ILOT GRAMME · ELA BOUFFEMONT · R.K.SINSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 11 [3,4]
Supermarket1ELA IMMO SAINT-OUENINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant20AIT IMGHOUR · MOMMA · SARL OCA · MOHAMMED MEHEDY HASAN · CHICKEN SPOTINSEE BPE 20 / INSEE SIRENE 35 [3,4]
Café / bar1TABAC DE LA MAIRIEINSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)2ECOLE MATERNELLE PAUL LANGEVIN · ECOLE MATERNELLE PUB SAMIRA BELLILINSEE BPE 2 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)3ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PAUL LANGEVIN · ECOLE PRIMAIRE JEAN LURCAT · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUB SAMIRA BELLILINSEE BPE 3 [3]
Collège1COLLEGE ALFRED SISLEYINSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)3KATELL MARTIN, MÉDECIN · RAHIF SABBAGH, MÉDECIN · DAVID OUANOUNOU, MÉDECININSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy1SELARL PHARMACIE KANNINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale1LA POSTEINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library1MÉDIATHÈQUE ELSA TRIOLETINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall3CENTRE SPORTIF DE L ILE DES VANNES · GYMNASE ALICE MILLIAT · MAIRIEINSEE BPE 3 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser3YASMINE · SALON MASSA COIFFURE · L'ATELIER DU BARBERINSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 7 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE SIRENE 3 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 5,522 2023: 8,696 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 6,981 (2012) → 8,696 (2023): 24.6 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 7,413 (1990) → 8,696 (2023): 17.3 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 3,569, of which 1.4 % second homes and 4.4 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 km
In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (L'Île-Saint-Denis): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (L'Île-Saint-Denis): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

GP (L'Île-Saint-Denis): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (L'Île-Saint-Denis): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (L'Île-Saint-Denis): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 22 days at or below 0 °C, over 12 complete years in 1995–2024. [9]

Measured at the ST-DENIS weather station, 0.6 km away at 75 m; the village itself is at 30 m. [9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. [9]

Humidity measured at ST-DENIS, 0.6 km away at 75 m, over 12 summers. [9]

An average of 573 mm of rain a year, spread over 108 days — about 5.3 mm on a day it rains. [9]

Rainfall measured at ST-DENIS, 0.6 km away at 75 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Grocery (épicerie / supérette)

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 93039/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 93039/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 93039/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 93039/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 93039
  9. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Marcoussis9134 km S8,61860.6ServedSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Trégueux22376 km W8,45068.5ServedCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Rouvroy62167 km N8,55251.4Partly servedSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Gonfreville-l'Orcher76166 km NW8,91656.6Partly servedCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Groslay955.7 km N8,45368.3ServedWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Irigny69408 km SE9,03457.4Partly servedWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 61 % · humidity 71 %
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CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Groslay955.7 km N8,45368.3ServedWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Marcoussis9134 km S8,61860.6ServedSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Gonfreville-l'Orcher76166 km NW8,91656.6Partly servedCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Rouvroy62167 km N8,55251.4Partly servedSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Trégueux22376 km W8,45068.5ServedCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Irigny69408 km SE9,03457.4Partly servedWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 61 % · humidity 71 %

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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 L'Île-Saint-Denis'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Crosne9126 km S9,61057.9Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Darnétal76103 km NW9,56667.1ServedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Ézanville9511 km N9,85861.9ServedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Grégoire35309 km W9,95769.4ServedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Jouy-en-Josas7823 km SW7,98153Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Chantepie35307 km W10,67051Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %