Mézilhac

Ardèche · CC du Bassin d'Aubenas · INSEE 07158

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

No daily shops 16.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 64 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Mézilhac (INSEE 07158) is in Ardèche (07), part of CC du Bassin d'Aubenas. 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/07158-mezilhac

Vitality score

Vitality score 16.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 64 % 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.

Component	Value (0–1)	Weight	Contribution
Daily food	0	25	0
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.26	10	2.64
Housing mix	0	5	0

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JEAN-MICHEL PRUDHOMME, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (MEZILHAC AP). ^[3]

1 × Hotel (HOTEL DES CEVENNES). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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)	1	JEAN-MICHEL PRUDHOMME, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	MEZILHAC AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	HOTEL DES CEVENNES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 268 2023: 107 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 100 (2012) → 107 (2023): 7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 140 (1990) → 107 (2023): -23.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 166, of which 64.5 % second homes and 0 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

GP — 1.6 km NBakery — 2.2 km EPrimary school — 3.9 km EFood shop — 9.1 km SWPharmacy — 10.0 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 (Marcols-les-Eaux): 2.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Labastide-sur-Bésorgues): 9.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Mézilhac): 1.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Vallées-d'Antraigues-Asperjoc): 10 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Marcols-les-Eaux): 3.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 7.3

Days at or below 0 °C 110.9▸

Muggy days a summer 0

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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 111 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ST-PIERREVILLE weather station, 10.6 km away at 560 m; the village itself is at 1,134 m. ^[12]

The village sits 574 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ANTRAIGUES SA, 10.7 km away at 600 m, over 27 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 534 m below 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 1,875 mm of rain a year, spread over 109 days — about 17.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at PEREYRES, 7.9 km away at 952 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 — 07158/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07158/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07158/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07158/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07149
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07112
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07158
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07011
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
Borce	64	448 km SW	112	8.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 26 % · humidity 93 %
Pastricciola	2A	477 km SE	90	17.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 3 % · winter 0 %
Sablières	07	38 km SW	166	16.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 5 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Vert	43	90 km NW	108	14.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Les Forges	79	391 km NW	125	12	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 62 % · winter 12 %
Lopigna	2A	471 km SE	113	24.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 15 % · winter 0 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sablières	07	38 km SW	166	16.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 5 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Vert	43	90 km NW	108	14.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Les Forges	79	391 km NW	125	12	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 62 % · winter 12 %
Borce	64	448 km SW	112	8.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 26 % · humidity 93 %
Lopigna	2A	471 km SE	113	24.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 15 % · winter 0 % · humidity 43 %
Pastricciola	2A	477 km SE	90	17.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 3 % · winter 0 %

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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 Mézilhac'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
Sauto	66	311 km SW	102	5.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Arcons-de-Barges	43	34 km W	119	20.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Hippolyte	15	138 km W	99	10	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Brion	48	101 km W	88	10.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Lafarre	43	29 km W	86	6.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Alban-des-Villards	73	159 km E	92	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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