Cheminas

Ardèche · CA Arche Agglo · INSEE 07063

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

Few services 37.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 82 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cheminas (INSEE 07063) is in Ardèche (07), part of CA Arche Agglo. Population 423 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 37.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 82 % of the 17,939 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.81	5	4.05

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 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 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LES DELICES DE NATH). ^[3]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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)	1	LES DELICES DE NATH	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 270 2023: 423 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 328 (2012) → 423 (2023): 29 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 193 (1990) → 423 (2023): 119.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 200, of which 9.5 % second homes and 5.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery Food shop — 1.8 km NEPrimary school — 1.8 km NEGP — 2.0 km SWPharmacy — 7.2 km SE 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 (Cheminas): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sécheras): 1.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Étables): 2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Jean-de-Muzols): 7.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Sécheras): 1.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 20.3

Days at or below 0 °C 42.7

Muggy days a summer 1.3

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 20 days a year at or above 30 °C and 43 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the PREAUX SA weather station, 7 km away at 525 m; the village itself is at 461 m. ^[12]

The village sits 64 m below 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at PREAUX SA, 7 km away at 525 m, over 26 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 64 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 870 mm of rain a year, spread over 102 days — about 8.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ST-VICTOR, 5.7 km away at 557 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07063/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07063/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07063/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07063/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07063
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07312
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07086
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07245
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
Saint-Laurent-la-Gâtine	28	466 km NW	470	35.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Blaignan-Prignac	33	442 km W	450	34.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 57 %
Boismont	54	482 km N	410	34.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Pougne-Hérisson	79	434 km NW	353	31.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Feldbach	68	330 km NE	472	35.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Pair-et-Grandrupt	88	391 km NE	486	34.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Feldbach	68	330 km NE	472	35.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Pair-et-Grandrupt	88	391 km NE	486	34.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %
Pougne-Hérisson	79	434 km NW	353	31.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Blaignan-Prignac	33	442 km W	450	34.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Laurent-la-Gâtine	28	466 km NW	470	35.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Boismont	54	482 km N	410	34.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Cheminas'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
Prasville	28	420 km NW	451	33.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Condac	16	366 km W	456	29.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Parnay	49	434 km NW	373	22.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Forges	77	391 km N	443	35	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Gouillons	28	421 km NW	335	27	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Courant	17	427 km W	445	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %

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