Salavas

Ardèche · CC des Gorges de l'Ardèche · INSEE 07304

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

Partly served 52.4/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 93 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Salavas (INSEE 07304) is in Ardèche (07), part of CC des Gorges de l'Ardèche. Population 740 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/07304-salavas

Vitality score

Vitality score 52.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 93 % of the 16,142 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0.81	20	16.14
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0	5	0

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 2 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]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (MAISON DU FOUR). ^[3,4]

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

4 × Restaurant (AUX POULETS D'OR LES JARDINS D'OLIVIER · LE YUCCA · LA FINCA · LE CHAUVIEUX). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE RE'GAL). ^[4]

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

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

1 × Swimming pool (BAIGNADE DU PONT). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (HAIR BEAUTE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Hotel (HOTEL DES SITES). ^[3,4]

9 × Campsite (INTERNATIONAL CAMPING · CAMPING LE PEQUELET · CAMPING LE MICOCOULIER · CAMPING LE MOULIN · CAMPING LE CHAUVIEUX). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, 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	MAISON DU FOUR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	AMYCA	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	AUX POULETS D'OR LES JARDINS D'OLIVIER · LE YUCCA · LA FINCA · LE CHAUVIEUX	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 9 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE RE'GAL	INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	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	1	BAIGNADE DU PONT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1	HAIR BEAUTE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	1	HOTEL DES SITES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Campsite	9	INTERNATIONAL CAMPING · CAMPING LE PEQUELET · CAMPING LE MICOCOULIER · CAMPING LE MOULIN · CAMPING LE CHAUVIEUX	INSEE BPE 9 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 240 2023: 740 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 604 (2012) → 740 (2023): 22.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 402 (1990) → 740 (2023): 84.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 926, of which 52.1 % second homes and 7.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 1.6 km NEPharmacy — 1.6 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 (Salavas): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Salavas): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Vallon-Pont-d'Arc): 1.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Vallon-Pont-d'Arc): 1.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Salavas): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 56.8▸

Days at or below 0 °C 45.2

Muggy days a summer 3

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 57 days a year at or above 30 °C and 45 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the VALLON SA weather station, 2.1 km away at 120 m; the village itself is at 100 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at VALLON SA, 2.1 km away at 120 m, over 18 summers. ^[10]

An average of 991 mm of rain a year, spread over 76 days — about 13 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at VALLON SA, 2.1 km away at 120 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07304/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07304/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07304/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07304/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07304
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07330
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
Berrias-et-Casteljau	07	14 km W	793	57.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
La Bollène-Vésubie	06	240 km E	662	54.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Roquebrun	34	147 km SW	601	53.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 61 % · humidity 64 %
Viens	84	110 km SE	626	51.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 5 % · humidity 79 %
Quiberville-sur-Mer	76	665 km N	542	44.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 70 % · humidity 86 %
Vagnas	07	5.6 km S	636	54.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Vagnas	07	5.6 km S	636	54.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Berrias-et-Casteljau	07	14 km W	793	57.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Viens	84	110 km SE	626	51.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 5 % · humidity 79 %
Roquebrun	34	147 km SW	601	53.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 61 % · humidity 64 %
La Bollène-Vésubie	06	240 km E	662	54.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Quiberville-sur-Mer	76	665 km N	542	44.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 70 % · 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 Salavas'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
Mialet	30	47 km SW	628	47.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Sauveur-de-Cruzières	07	15 km SW	572	41.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Galargues	34	75 km S	752	47.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Allègre-les-Fumades	30	26 km SW	1,002	42.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Sanilhac-Sagriès	30	49 km S	842	36.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Meyrannes	30	22 km SW	792	33.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %

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