Payzac

Ardèche · CC du Pays Beaume-Drobie · INSEE 07171

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

Few services 37/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 76 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Payzac (INSEE 07171) is in Ardèche (07), part of CC du Pays Beaume-Drobie. Population 539 (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 37/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 76 % of the 17,568 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.74	10	7.36
Housing mix	0.14	5	0.7

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 1 of 1

Culture 1 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”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (AUX SAVEURS DE VALERIANE · LE COMPTOIR DE PAYZAC). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (PAYZAC COMPTOIR DE PAYZAC RP). ^[3]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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	2	AUX SAVEURS DE VALERIANE · LE COMPTOIR DE PAYZAC	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)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	PAYZAC COMPTOIR DE PAYZAC RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE INTERCOMMUNALE DE PAYZAC	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 413 peak 2012: 552 2023: 539 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 552 (2012) → 539 (2023): -2.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 436 (1990) → 539 (2023): 23.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 491, of which 43 % second homes and 5.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.1 km EBakery — 4.8 km EGP — 5.1 km SPharmacy — 5.4 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 (Lablachère): 4.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Genest-de-Beauzon): 3.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Les Vans): 5.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Les Vans): 5.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Payzac): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 30.2

Days at or below 0 °C 17.1▸

Muggy days a summer 0.6

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 30 days a year at or above 30 °C and 17 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the FAUGERES weather station, 2.7 km away at 439 m; the village itself is at 382 m. ^[12]

The village sits 57 m below 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 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at LES VANS-SA, 4.3 km away at 140 m, over 11 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 242 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 1,432 mm of rain a year, spread over 87 days — about 16.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at FAUGERES, 2.7 km away at 439 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 — 07171/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07171/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07171/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07171/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07117
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07238
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07334
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07171
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
Beaulieu	07	12 km SE	544	37.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 41 % · humidity 79 %
Pont-de-Labeaume	07	26 km NE	567	34.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-André-d'Embrun	05	190 km E	705	40.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Lussan	30	38 km SE	545	34.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 42 % · humidity 93 %
Faugères	34	125 km SW	548	39.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 62 % · humidity 79 %
Les Vigneaux	05	194 km E	510	37.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Beaulieu	07	12 km SE	544	37.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 41 % · humidity 79 %
Pont-de-Labeaume	07	26 km NE	567	34.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %
Lussan	30	38 km SE	545	34.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 42 % · humidity 93 %
Faugères	34	125 km SW	548	39.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 62 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-André-d'Embrun	05	190 km E	705	40.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Les Vigneaux	05	194 km E	510	37.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 0 % · 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 Payzac'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
Graissessac	34	121 km SW	554	47.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Vincent-d'Olargues	34	142 km SW	355	20.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Meyras	07	27 km N	889	37.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Vivario	2B	479 km SE	409	36.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Moncale	2B	435 km SE	348	27.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Pons	07	37 km NE	308	30.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %

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