Saint-Félicien

Ardèche · CA Arche Agglo · INSEE 07236

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

Served 63/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 97 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Félicien (INSEE 07236) is in Ardèche (07), part of CA Arche Agglo. Population 1,119 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/07236-saint-felicien

Vitality score

Vitality score 63/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 97 % of the 13,667 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	0.73	25	18.13
Social	0.7	20	14.09
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.66	10	6.56
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.4	10	4.02
Housing mix	0.69	5	3.45

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 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]

5 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AUX DELICES ARDECHOIS · LE PAIN DE SUCRE · LA BOULANGE). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (LA BOUCHERIE DU VILLAGE). ^[3,4]

4 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (PETIT CASINO · ETABLISSEMENTS FELIX DAVID · SODIALU · LE LOCAL DE SAINT FELICIEN). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (L'AUBERGE DE SAINT FELICIEN · SAS LE BISTROT DES BLONDES). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

5 × GP (médecin généraliste) (PHILIPPE GIRARD, MÉDECIN · CLAIRE FUSELIER, MÉDECIN · THOMAS LARA, MÉDECIN · GUILLAUME CLAUDE, MÉDECIN · ELODIE LAGARDE PARODI, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE SAINT FELICIEN). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE DE SPORTS INTERCOMMUNAL). ^[3]

2 × Bank (CAISSE EPARGNE PREVO LOIRE DROME ARDECHE · CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL SUD RHONE ALPES). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (LE TEMPS D'UNE COUPE). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (LE FELICIEN). ^[3,4]

2 × Campsite (CAMPING MUNICIPAL DE PIERRAGEAIS). ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	5	AUX DELICES ARDECHOIS · LE PAIN DE SUCRE · LA BOULANGE	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	LA BOUCHERIE DU VILLAGE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	4	PETIT CASINO · ETABLISSEMENTS FELIX DAVID · SODIALU · LE LOCAL DE SAINT FELICIEN	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [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	L'AUBERGE DE SAINT FELICIEN · SAS LE BISTROT DES BLONDES	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Café / bar	3		INSEE SIRENE 3 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE MICHELE BERNARD · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	5	PHILIPPE GIRARD, MÉDECIN · CLAIRE FUSELIER, MÉDECIN · THOMAS LARA, MÉDECIN · GUILLAUME CLAUDE, MÉDECIN · ELODIE LAGARDE PARODI, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 5 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE SAINT FELICIEN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	SALLE DE SPORTS INTERCOMMUNAL	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	2	CAISSE EPARGNE PREVO LOIRE DROME ARDECHE · CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL SUD RHONE ALPES	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Hairdresser	2	LE TEMPS D'UNE COUPE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Hotel	1	LE FELICIEN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Campsite	2	CAMPING MUNICIPAL DE PIERRAGEAIS	INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,214 peak 1990: 1,240 2023: 1,119 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,161 (2012) → 1,119 (2023): -3.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,240 (1990) → 1,119 (2023): -9.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 757, of which 15.5 % second homes and 16.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Saint-Félicien): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Félicien): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Félicien): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Félicien): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Félicien): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 19

Days at or below 0 °C 64.2

Muggy days a summer 0.5

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 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 64 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the COLOMBIER VIEUX SA weather station, 6.1 km away at 408 m; the village itself is at 537 m. ^[9]

The village sits 129 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. ^[9]

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

Humidity measured at COLOMBIER VIEUX SA, 6.1 km away at 408 m, over 18 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 129 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 870 mm of rain a year, spread over 102 days — about 8.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at ST-VICTOR, 5 km away at 557 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07236/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07236/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07236/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07236/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07236
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
Goudargues	30	98 km S	1,125	64.4	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 93 % · humidity 79 %
Barbizon	77	404 km N	1,261	58.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Cercié	69	115 km N	1,131	54.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 76 % · humidity 64 %
Serrières	07	28 km N	1,095	50.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 46 % · humidity 86 %
Rauzan	33	376 km W	1,247	60	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 58 % · humidity 57 %
Tenay	01	115 km NE	1,030	37.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Serrières	07	28 km N	1,095	50.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 46 % · humidity 86 %
Goudargues	30	98 km S	1,125	64.4	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 93 % · humidity 79 %
Cercié	69	115 km N	1,131	54.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 76 % · humidity 64 %
Tenay	01	115 km NE	1,030	37.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Rauzan	33	376 km W	1,247	60	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 58 % · humidity 57 %
Barbizon	77	404 km N	1,261	58.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · 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 Saint-Félicien'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
Barbizon	77	404 km N	1,261	58.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Cerisiers	89	350 km N	988	63.4	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Dhuizon	41	360 km NW	1,195	49.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Mur-de-Sologne	41	348 km NW	1,518	48.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Soisy-sur-École	91	410 km NW	1,174	45	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Meursault	21	211 km N	1,363	59.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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