Prades

Ardèche · CC Ardèche des Sources et Volcans · INSEE 07182

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

Few services 37.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 48 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Prades (INSEE 07182) is in Ardèche (07), part of CC Ardèche des Sources et Volcans. Population 1,195 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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 37.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 48 % of the 13,242 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.88	10	8.75
Housing mix	0.55	5	2.73

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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) (LA GRANGE A TARTINES). ^[3,4]

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

4 × Restaurant (LA PAUSE VERTE · BAR DE LA PLACE · CHATAIGNE ET COMPAGNIE · PIZZAS BEA). ^[3,4]

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

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

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hairdresser.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LA GRANGE A TARTINES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	BIOCOOP	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	4	LA PAUSE VERTE · BAR DE LA PLACE · CHATAIGNE ET COMPAGNIE · PIZZAS BEA	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	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	1		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	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: 697 peak 2017: 1,213 2023: 1,195 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,200 (2012) → 1,195 (2023): -0.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 869 (1990) → 1,195 (2023): 37.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 708, of which 22.7 % second homes and 1.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 1.3 km NEGP — 1.3 km NEPharmacy — 1.3 km NEFood shop — 1.4 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 (Lalevade-d'Ardèche): 1.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lalevade-d'Ardèche): 1.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Lalevade-d'Ardèche): 1.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Lalevade-d'Ardèche): 1.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Prades): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 40.7

Days at or below 0 °C 33.4

Muggy days a summer 3.5

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 41 days a year at or above 30 °C and 33 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the VALS-LES-BAINS weather station, 5.1 km away at 283 m; the village itself is at 313 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at CROIX MILLET, 6.7 km away at 779 m, over 15 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 466 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 1,245 mm of rain a year, spread over 87 days — about 14.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at VALS-LES-BAINS, 5.1 km away at 283 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07182/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07182/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07182/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07182/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07127
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07182
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
Séchilienne	38	129 km E	993	49.7	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 58 %
Les Bréviaires	78	491 km N	1,302	38.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 26 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Benoît-des-Ondes	35	646 km NW	975	47.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 3 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Les Fourgs	25	293 km NE	1,443	41.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 3 % · humidity 71 %
Laignelet	35	589 km NW	1,234	35.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Cervens	74	247 km NE	1,270	35.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 5 % · winter 66 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Séchilienne	38	129 km E	993	49.7	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 58 %
Cervens	74	247 km NE	1,270	35.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 5 % · winter 66 % · humidity 79 %
Les Fourgs	25	293 km NE	1,443	41.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 3 % · humidity 71 %
Les Bréviaires	78	491 km N	1,302	38.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 26 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Laignelet	35	589 km NW	1,234	35.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Benoît-des-Ondes	35	646 km NW	975	47.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 3 % · winter 82 % · 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 Prades'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
Marsanne	26	44 km E	1,246	48.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Argelliers	34	116 km SW	1,002	31.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Neffiès	34	146 km SW	1,008	39.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Hostun	26	83 km NE	1,037	38.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Gabian	34	150 km SW	886	53.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Flaviac	07	31 km NE	1,235	36.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

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