Coux

Ardèche · CA Privas Centre Ardèche · INSEE 07072

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

Few services 30.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 17 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Coux (INSEE 07072) is in Ardèche (07), part of CA Privas Centre Ardèche. Population 1,635 (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 30.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 17 % of the 11,001 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.59	10	5.89
Housing mix	0.84	5	4.21

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 0 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) (FOREST-GOULARD). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LE POIVRE D'ANE · EURL CAMILOLILY). ^[3,4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE MASNEUF). ^[3]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LE MOULIN D'ONCLAIRE). ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	FOREST-GOULARD	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	2	LE POIVRE D'ANE · EURL CAMILOLILY	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE MASNEUF	INSEE BPE 2 [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	1	CAMPING LE MOULIN D'ONCLAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 806 peak 2012: 1,689 2023: 1,635 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,689 (2012) → 1,635 (2023): -3.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,501 (1990) → 1,635 (2023): 8.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 894, of which 7.9 % second homes and 8.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school GP — 1.4 km SWFood shop — 1.5 km SWPharmacy — 1.7 km W 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 (Coux): 0.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Privas): 1.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Privas): 1.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Privas): 1.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Coux): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 37.9

Days at or below 0 °C 42.9

Muggy days a summer 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 38 days a year at or above 30 °C and 43 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CHOMERAC SA_RCE weather station, 4.3 km away at 216 m; the village itself is at 223 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at CHOMERAC SA_RCE, 4.3 km away at 216 m, over 23 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,071 mm of rain a year, spread over 86 days — about 12.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at PRIVAS, 2.4 km away at 282 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07072/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07072/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07072/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07072/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07072
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07186
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-Jouvent	87	300 km NW	1,625	31.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-de-Nigelles	28	489 km NW	1,587	32.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Taponnat-Fleurignac	16	350 km W	1,593	28.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Les Magnils-Reigniers	85	494 km NW	1,486	28.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 51 % · winter 81 %
Escoutoux	63	146 km NW	1,369	32.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Sablons	33	381 km W	1,314	28.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 81 % · humidity 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Escoutoux	63	146 km NW	1,369	32.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jouvent	87	300 km NW	1,625	31.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Taponnat-Fleurignac	16	350 km W	1,593	28.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Sablons	33	381 km W	1,314	28.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 81 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Martin-de-Nigelles	28	489 km NW	1,587	32.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Les Magnils-Reigniers	85	494 km NW	1,486	28.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 51 % · winter 81 %

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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 Coux'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
Mercuer	07	24 km SW	1,325	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Beausemblant	26	56 km N	1,475	38.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Chabrillan	26	25 km E	752	34	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Sorlin-de-Vienne	38	86 km N	964	47.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Usuge	71	222 km N	1,204	29.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Bagnac-sur-Célé	46	195 km W	1,467	36.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %

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