Sarras

Ardèche · CC Porte de Dromardèche · INSEE 07308

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

Partly served 58.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 89 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sarras (INSEE 07308) is in Ardèche (07), part of CC Porte de Dromardèche. Population 2,220 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/07308-sarras

Vitality score

Vitality score 58.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 89 % of the 8,920 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	0.47	25	11.83
Social	0.63	20	12.58
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.71	10	7.08
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.71

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 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE FOURNIL SARRASSOIS). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3]

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

4 × Restaurant (GAMON MAXIMILIEN TRAITEUR · LE VIVARAIS · TASTY PIZZ · SIMONE ET ODETTE). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (CHEZ FLO). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE AU FIL DE L'AY · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE LE VIEUX CHATEAU). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (DOMINIQUE ARHANCET, MÉDECIN · PHILIPPE MONDON, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DES CEVENNES). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SARRAS AP AP). ^[3]

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

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE MULTISPORT). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (EMO'TIF · CARACT HAIR). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (HOTEL DU VIVARAIS). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 1 × Restaurant, 2 × 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)	2	LE FOURNIL SARRASSOIS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1		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	4	GAMON MAXIMILIEN TRAITEUR · LE VIVARAIS · TASTY PIZZ · SIMONE ET ODETTE	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	CHEZ FLO	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE AU FIL DE L'AY · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE LE VIEUX CHATEAU	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	DOMINIQUE ARHANCET, MÉDECIN · PHILIPPE MONDON, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DES CEVENNES	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	SARRAS AP AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE CENTRE RENÉ CASSIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	SALLE MULTISPORT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	2	EMO'TIF · CARACT HAIR	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	HOTEL DU VIVARAIS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

A market is recorded here, but no source gives the day. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 1,555 2023: 2,220 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,072 (2012) → 2,220 (2023): 7.1 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,837 (1990) → 2,220 (2023): 20.8 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,168, of which 2.9 % second homes and 7.4 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 0.7 km N 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 (Sarras): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Sarras): 0.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Sarras): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Sarras): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Sarras): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 39.4

Days at or below 0 °C 29.7

Muggy days a summer 5.8

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 39 days a year at or above 30 °C and 30 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ST-DESIRAT SA weather station, 8.3 km away at 275 m; the village itself is at 132 m. ^[10]

The village sits 143 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ST-DESIRAT SA, 8.3 km away at 275 m, over 26 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 143 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 695 mm of rain a year, spread over 92 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ST-DESIRAT SA, 8.3 km away at 275 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 — 07308/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2024-10— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/52385f97-8a13-3136-89ae-a66a821e9c27— “Marché hebdomadaire”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07308/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07308/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07308/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07308
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
Sainte-Foy-la-Grande	33	362 km W	2,507	69	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 78 %
Roiffieux	07	12 km W	2,743	51.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 54 % · humidity 64 %
Sierck-les-Bains	57	488 km N	1,765	62	Served	no figures
Boulieu-lès-Annonay	07	14 km NW	2,248	54.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 53 % · humidity 64 %
Beaulieu	34	174 km S	2,264	56.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Cappelle-en-Pévèle	59	604 km N	2,257	51.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Roiffieux	07	12 km W	2,743	51.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 54 % · humidity 64 %
Boulieu-lès-Annonay	07	14 km NW	2,248	54.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 53 % · humidity 64 %
Beaulieu	34	174 km S	2,264	56.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Foy-la-Grande	33	362 km W	2,507	69	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 78 %
Sierck-les-Bains	57	488 km N	1,765	62	Served	no figures
Cappelle-en-Pévèle	59	604 km N	2,257	51.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Sarras'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
Venerque	31	331 km SW	2,974	61.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Lagardelle-sur-Lèze	31	336 km SW	3,303	39.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Vernet	31	332 km SW	3,381	49.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Longages	31	349 km SW	3,392	41.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Pont-de-l'Isère	26	21 km S	3,681	41.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Noé	31	347 km SW	3,067	40.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %

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