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Chassiers

Ardèche · CC Val de Ligne · INSEE 07058

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

Few services 34.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 48 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chassiers (INSEE 07058) is in Ardèche (07), part of CC Val de Ligne. Population 989 (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/07058-chassiers

Vitality score

Vitality score 34.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 48 % of the 14,397 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 food0.21255.27
Social0.43208.65
Education0.63106.32
Health0100
Public & culture0.3251.58
Population trend0.56105.63
Housing mix0.4452.21

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 0 of 4
Public services 0 of 1
Culture 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. [3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (DOUCEUR SAUVAGE). [3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LE VER O TOF). [3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). [3]

1 × Campsite. [3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)1DOUCEUR SAUVAGEINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant2LE VER O TOFINSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUEINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library1BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALEINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite1INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 713 peak 2017: 1,022 2023: 989 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,003 (2012) → 989 (2023): -1.4 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 930 (1990) → 989 (2023): 6.3 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 695, of which 27.9 % second homes and 6 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmGP — 0.5 km S (Largentière)Food shop — 1.0 km S (Largentière)Pharmacy — 1.1 km S (Largentière)
In the commune Bakery, Primary school GP — 0.5 km SFood shop — 1.0 km SPharmacy — 1.1 km S 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 (Chassiers): 0 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Largentière): 1 km to the south (straight line). [9]

GP (Largentière): 0.5 km to the south (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Largentière): 1.1 km to the south (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Chassiers): 0.1 km to the south-west (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 39 days a year at or above 30 °C and 42 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the LANAS SYN weather station, 6 km away at 265 m; the village itself is at 345 m. [10]

The village sits 80 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. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at LANAS SYN, 6 km away at 265 m, over 29 summers. [10]

That station sits 80 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [10]

An average of 1,056 mm of rain a year, spread over 80 days — about 13.2 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at LANAS SYN, 6 km away at 265 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

What property sold for

69 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 188,505 € — 1,774 € per m² of built surface. [11]

6 flats sold over the same window, at a median of 150,000 € — 1,216 € per m². [11]

The median across Ardèche is 1,839 € per m², so this commune sits about level with it. [11]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07058/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07058/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07058/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07058/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 07058
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 07132
  10. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
  11. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Saint-Armel56636 km NW90338.4Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 80 % · humidity 86 %
Rochejean25289 km NE75441.5Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 5 % · winter 27 % · humidity 93 %
Azur40454 km W98845Partly servedCooler summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 95 %
Rémering-lès-Puttelange57538 km N1,05030.2Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Eygliers05184 km E88250.5Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Écrainville76641 km NW1,00126Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.summer 13 % · winter 91 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Eygliers05184 km E88250.5Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Rochejean25289 km NE75441.5Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 5 % · winter 27 % · humidity 93 %
Azur40454 km W98845Partly servedCooler summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 95 %
Rémering-lès-Puttelange57538 km N1,05030.2Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Armel56636 km NW90338.4Few servicesCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 80 % · humidity 86 %
Écrainville76641 km NW1,00126Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.summer 13 % · winter 91 %

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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 Chassiers'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
Pern-Lhospitalet46230 km W92531.6Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Mercuer0710 km NE1,32530.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Lager-Bressac0736 km NE97133.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Béduer46186 km W74929.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Pont-de-Labeaume0713 km N56734.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Symphorien-sous-Chomérac0737 km NE88732.4Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %