Montpezat-sous-Bauzon

Ardèche · CC Ardèche des Sources et Volcans · INSEE 07161

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

Served 68.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 99 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montpezat-sous-Bauzon (INSEE 07161) is in Ardèche (07), part of CC Ardèche des Sources et Volcans. Population 770 (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 68.5/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 99 % of the 15,896 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	0.63	25	15.8
Social	0.97	20	19.48
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.63	10	6.32
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.6	10	6.03
Housing mix	0.23	5	1.14

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 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). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (VOTRE MARCHE CASINO). ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (L'ARDECHE A PARIS · ZAZA EN CUISINE · MAISON BURLE). ^[3,4]

6 × Café / bar (AUBERGE DE MONTPEZAT · SNC BAR TABAC PRESSE DECHAUMES). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE JOSEPH DURAND). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (BERNARD COURT, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (EURL SOPHIE TALLARON). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (MONTPEZAT SOUS BAUZON LPAC AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (GYMNASE INTERCOMMUNAL ET STADE COMMUNAL). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (ART LUN'HAIR). ^[3,4]

2 × Campsite (CAMPING DU PRE BONNEFOY · AIRE NATURELLE LE CLAUX). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	VOTRE MARCHE CASINO	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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	3	L'ARDECHE A PARIS · ZAZA EN CUISINE · MAISON BURLE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	6	AUBERGE DE MONTPEZAT · SNC BAR TABAC PRESSE DECHAUMES	INSEE SIRENE 6 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE JOSEPH DURAND	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	BERNARD COURT, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	EURL SOPHIE TALLARON	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	MONTPEZAT SOUS BAUZON LPAC AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	GYMNASE INTERCOMMUNAL ET STADE COMMUNAL	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1	ART LUN'HAIR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	2	CAMPING DU PRE BONNEFOY · AIRE NATURELLE LE CLAUX	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 693 peak 2012: 864 2023: 770 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 864 (2012) → 770 (2023): -10.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 698 (1990) → 770 (2023): 10.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 663, of which 38.6 % second homes and 9.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, GP, Pharmacy Primary school — 0.5 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 (Montpezat-sous-Bauzon): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Montpezat-sous-Bauzon): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Montpezat-sous-Bauzon): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Montpezat-sous-Bauzon): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Montpezat-sous-Bauzon): 0.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 20.7

Days at or below 0 °C 38.5

Muggy days a summer 1

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 39 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the MONTPEZAT SA weather station, 0.4 km away at 602 m; the village itself is at 585 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at MONTPEZAT SA, 0.4 km away at 602 m, over 17 summers. ^[9]

An average of 1,627 mm of rain a year, spread over 102 days — about 16 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at MONTPEZAT SA, 0.4 km away at 602 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07161/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07161/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07161/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07161/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07161
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
La Chapelle-en-Vercors	26	100 km E	797	70.5	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 18 % · humidity 93 %
Peyrelevade	19	202 km NW	824	67.2	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Chaudes-Aigues	15	96 km W	813	67.3	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Villefranche-de-Panat	12	138 km SW	677	69.2	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 93 %
Meyrueis	48	85 km SW	770	72	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Allanche	15	115 km NW	773	62.4	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 27 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Meyrueis	48	85 km SW	770	72	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Chaudes-Aigues	15	96 km W	813	67.3	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-en-Vercors	26	100 km E	797	70.5	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 18 % · humidity 93 %
Allanche	15	115 km NW	773	62.4	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 27 % · humidity 93 %
Villefranche-de-Panat	12	138 km SW	677	69.2	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 93 %
Peyrelevade	19	202 km NW	824	67.2	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Montpezat-sous-Bauzon'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
Blesle	43	106 km NW	611	61.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Alvignac	46	199 km W	699	65.8	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Honoré-les-Bains	58	246 km N	678	58.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Saulge	58	271 km N	650	57	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Rome-de-Tarn	12	128 km SW	904	61.8	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Bélâbre	36	313 km NW	923	64.9	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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