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Issamoulenc

Ardèche · CC Val Eyrieux · INSEE 07104

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 5.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 3 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Issamoulenc (INSEE 07104) is in Ardèche (07), part of CC Val Eyrieux. Population 107 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/07104-issamoulenc

Vitality score

Vitality score 5.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 3 % of the 11,176 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 food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.46104.55
Housing mix050

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [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]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 218 2023: 107 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 112 (2012) → 107 (2023): -4.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 112 (1990) → 107 (2023): -4.5 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 147, of which 59.2 % second homes and 4.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

10 km20 kmGP — 2.9 km SW (Saint-Julien-du-Gua)Primary school — 3.0 km SW (Saint-Julien-du-Gua)Food shop — 3.8 km N (Saint-Pierreville)Bakery — 3.9 km N (Saint-Pierreville)Pharmacy — 11.0 km SE (Privas)
GP — 2.9 km SWPrimary school — 3.0 km SWFood shop — 3.8 km NBakery — 3.9 km NPharmacy — 11.0 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 (Saint-Pierreville): 3.9 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Saint-Pierreville): 3.8 km to the north (straight line). [8]

GP (Saint-Julien-du-Gua): 2.9 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Privas): 11 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Saint-Julien-du-Gua): 3 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

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 28 days a year at or above 30 °C and 60 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the ST-PIERREVILLE weather station, 3.6 km away at 560 m; the village itself is at 567 m. [11]

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

Humidity measured at ST PVILLE S.A., 4.3 km away at 640 m, over 10 summers. [11]

That station sits 73 m above 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 1,394 mm of rain a year, spread over 99 days — about 14.1 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at ST-PIERREVILLE, 3.6 km away at 560 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07104/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07104/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07104/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07104/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 07286
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 07253
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 07186
  11. 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
Laval-du-Tarn48101 km SW1083.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Baffie6392 km NW1116.2No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 100 %
Mas-Saint-Chély48101 km SW1126.8No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Jouqueviel81197 km W1004No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Jacques-en-Valgodemard05123 km E1133.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 38 % · humidity 100 %
Fayet-Ronaye63103 km NW1162.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 54 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Baffie6392 km NW1116.2No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 100 %
Mas-Saint-Chély48101 km SW1126.8No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Laval-du-Tarn48101 km SW1083.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Fayet-Ronaye63103 km NW1162.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 54 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jacques-en-Valgodemard05123 km E1133.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 38 % · humidity 100 %
Jouqueviel81197 km W1004No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Issamoulenc'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
Ubraye04202 km SE1035.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Dunet36311 km NW1036No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Buoux84128 km SE1046.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Beaumont-en-Diois2682 km E10319.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Chalais36321 km NW1524.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Lignerolles36263 km NW1176.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %