Lablachère

Ardèche · CC du Pays Beaume-Drobie · INSEE 07117

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

Partly served 57.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 88 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lablachère (INSEE 07117) is in Ardèche (07), part of CC du Pays Beaume-Drobie. Population 2,193 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/07117-lablachere

Vitality score

Vitality score 57.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 88 % of the 9,000 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	0.52	25	13.03
Social	0.79	20	15.82
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.9	10	9.04
Housing mix	0.53	5	2.64

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 2 of 3

Lodging 2 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]

3 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AU COEUR DE NOTRE DAME · L'EPI CENTRE · LE MOULIN D AUZON). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (L'ARDECH'ARCUTER). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (MIHELIC MILKA). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (NETTO). ^[3,4]

6 × Restaurant (L'ESTANCO · L ORTU DI MARIA · L ASSIETTE DU MARCHER · LA PASSERELLE · L EPICURIEN - MAISON CLAUSTRE). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (BAR DE L'ETOILE). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE INTERCOMMUNALE DE LABLACHÈRE). ^[3]

4 × Hairdresser (LE SALON DE VALERIE · LYDIA COIFFURE · IMAGIN'R). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

1 × Hotel (AUBERGE DE LA COURONNE). ^[3,4]

2 × Campsite (CAMPING CHAULET VILLAGE · CAMPING HELLO SOLEIL). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 3 × Restaurant, 1 × Campsite.

Not found in the commune: Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	3	AU COEUR DE NOTRE DAME · L'EPI CENTRE · LE MOULIN D AUZON	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	L'ARDECH'ARCUTER	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	MIHELIC MILKA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	NETTO	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	6	L'ESTANCO · L ORTU DI MARIA · L ASSIETTE DU MARCHER · LA PASSERELLE · L EPICURIEN - MAISON CLAUSTRE	INSEE BPE 6 / INSEE SIRENE 11 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	BAR DE L'ETOILE	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE	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	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE INTERCOMMUNALE DE LABLACHÈRE	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	4	LE SALON DE VALERIE · LYDIA COIFFURE · IMAGIN'R	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	1	AUBERGE DE LA COURONNE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Campsite	2	CAMPING CHAULET VILLAGE · CAMPING HELLO SOLEIL	INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day (reported, unverified): Sunday matin Allée du château, du carrefour des 4 routes jusqu'au Château. No source says whether it is weekly or monthly. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 1,270 2023: 2,193 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,978 (2012) → 2,193 (2023): 10.9 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,562 (1990) → 2,193 (2023): 40.4 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,442, of which 23.6 % second homes and 4.9 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 1.4 km NEPharmacy — 1.6 km NE 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 (Lablachère): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Lablachère): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Joyeuse): 1.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Joyeuse): 1.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Lablachère): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 37.4

Days at or below 0 °C 43.8

Muggy days a summer 0.9

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 37 days a year at or above 30 °C and 44 days at or below 0 °C, over 14 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LABLACHERE DROME weather station, 1.5 km away at 265 m; the village itself is at 255 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at LABLACHERE DROME, 1.5 km away at 265 m, over 14 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,119 mm of rain a year, spread over 80 days — about 14 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LABLACHERE DROME, 1.5 km away at 265 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

The market day comes from the commune's own website and has not been confirmed by a second source. ^[5]

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07117/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
Commune website 2026-10— https://www.lablachere.fr/vie-locale/les-marches/— “Dimanche matin : marché au cœur de Lablachère , Allée du château, du carrefour des 4 routes jusqu'au Château”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07117/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07117/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07117/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07117
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07110
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
Juvigny Val d'Andaine	61	581 km NW	2,094	46.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
La Verdière	83	166 km SE	1,668	45.4	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Mareuil en Périgord	24	316 km W	2,326	56.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Julien-Chapteuil	43	65 km N	2,019	56.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 30 % · humidity 93 %
Gaillan-en-Médoc	33	418 km W	2,385	58.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 91 % · humidity 71 %
Vézeronce-Curtin	38	165 km NE	2,241	56.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 61 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Julien-Chapteuil	43	65 km N	2,019	56.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 30 % · humidity 93 %
Vézeronce-Curtin	38	165 km NE	2,241	56.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 61 % · humidity 86 %
La Verdière	83	166 km SE	1,668	45.4	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Mareuil en Périgord	24	316 km W	2,326	56.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %
Gaillan-en-Médoc	33	418 km W	2,385	58.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 91 % · humidity 71 %
Juvigny Val d'Andaine	61	581 km NW	2,094	46.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 74 % · 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 Lablachère'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
Lalbenque	46	213 km W	1,899	64	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Oytier-Saint-Oblas	38	138 km NE	1,743	60.9	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Sorlin-en-Valloire	26	108 km NE	2,251	57.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Albon	26	100 km NE	1,942	47.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Reventin-Vaugris	38	122 km NE	2,035	58.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Entrechaux	84	78 km E	1,177	47	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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