Boffres

Ardèche · CC Rhône Crussol · INSEE 07035

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

Few services 34.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 66 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Boffres (INSEE 07035) is in Ardèche (07), part of CC Rhône Crussol. Population 633 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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 34.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 66 % of the 16,798 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	0.49	20	9.82
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.74	10	7.41
Housing mix	0.58	5	2.89

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

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

4 × Restaurant (LA GUING'HOT EN FOLIE · PIZZBOURG · AUBERGE DE BOFFRES · LES FONTAINES). ^[3,4]

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

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

1 × Library (MEDIATHÈQUE DE BOFFRES BOFFRES). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 3 × Restaurant, 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[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	4	LA GUING'HOT EN FOLIE · PIZZBOURG · AUBERGE DE BOFFRES · LES FONTAINES	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	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	1	BOFFRES APA AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MEDIATHÈQUE DE BOFFRES BOFFRES	INSEE BPE 1 [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]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	0		INSEE 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: 654 2023: 633 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 636 (2012) → 633 (2023): -0.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 510 (1990) → 633 (2023): 24.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 459, of which 21.1 % second homes and 14.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.7 km NEGP — 3.7 km NEPharmacy — 3.7 km NEBakery — 4.8 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-Barthélemy-Grozon): 4.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Alboussière): 3.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Alboussière): 3.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Alboussière): 3.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Boffres): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 9.3

Days at or below 0 °C 61

Muggy days a summer 0.2

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 61 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the VERNOUX weather station, 4.4 km away at 561 m; the village itself is at 667 m. ^[11]

The village sits 106 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 6.06 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at VERNOUX SA, 6.5 km away at 510 m, over 20 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 157 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 1,190 mm of rain a year, spread over 99 days — about 12 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at VERNOUX, 4.4 km away at 561 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 — 07035/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07035/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07035/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07035/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07216
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07007
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07035
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
Montregard	43	39 km NW	629	32.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %
Dore-l'Église	63	90 km NW	656	26.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 26 % · humidity 100 %
Lourdoueix-Saint-Pierre	23	278 km NW	711	24.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Ventavon	05	113 km SE	540	34.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 43 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-aux-Bois	88	369 km N	675	27.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 58 %
Dun	09	313 km SW	657	34.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 54 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Montregard	43	39 km NW	629	32.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %
Dore-l'Église	63	90 km NW	656	26.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 26 % · humidity 100 %
Ventavon	05	113 km SE	540	34.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 43 % · humidity 100 %
Lourdoueix-Saint-Pierre	23	278 km NW	711	24.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Dun	09	313 km SW	657	34.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 54 % · humidity 43 %
La Chapelle-aux-Bois	88	369 km N	675	27.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 58 %

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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 Boffres'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
Blond	87	313 km NW	674	38.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Méasnes	23	282 km NW	522	24.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Meilhards	19	249 km W	545	32.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Cressat	23	244 km NW	512	19.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Saintigny	28	475 km NW	922	29.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Cressanges	03	208 km NW	644	34.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

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