Sécheras

Ardèche · CA Arche Agglo · INSEE 07312

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

Few services 32/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 64 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sécheras (INSEE 07312) is in Ardèche (07), part of CA Arche Agglo. Population 516 (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/07312-secheras

Vitality score

Vitality score 32/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 64 % of the 17,717 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.8	5	3.99

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 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 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	CHEZ POUILLETTE	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	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	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: 253 peak 2017: 554 2023: 516 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 502 (2012) → 516 (2023): 2.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 297 (1990) → 516 (2023): 73.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 278, of which 10.1 % second homes and 12.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 1.8 km SWGP — 3.5 km SWPharmacy — 6.2 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 (Cheminas): 1.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sécheras): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Étables): 3.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Vallier): 6.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Sécheras): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21.8

Days at or below 0 °C 40.4

Muggy days a summer 1.6

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the PREAUX SA weather station, 8.3 km away at 525 m; the village itself is at 425 m. ^[12]

The village sits 100 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 2 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at PREAUX SA, 8.3 km away at 525 m, over 26 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 100 m above 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 870 mm of rain a year, spread over 102 days — about 8.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ST-VICTOR, 7.3 km away at 557 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 — 07312/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07312/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07312/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07312/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07063
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07312
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07086
INSEE BPE 2025 — 26333
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
Lagos	64	452 km SW	473	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 14 %
Le Perchay	95	492 km NW	504	32.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Ouville	50	634 km NW	439	28.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
La Chaux	25	246 km NE	614	32.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 26 % · humidity 86 %
Senantes	60	532 km NW	577	28.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 70 % · humidity 86 %
Le Tréhou	29	768 km NW	633	32.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Chaux	25	246 km NE	614	32.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 26 % · humidity 86 %
Lagos	64	452 km SW	473	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 14 %
Le Perchay	95	492 km NW	504	32.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Senantes	60	532 km NW	577	28.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 70 % · humidity 86 %
Ouville	50	634 km NW	439	28.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Le Tréhou	29	768 km NW	633	32.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 68 % · 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 Sécheras'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
Avant-lès-Marcilly	10	377 km N	509	24.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Issendolus	46	239 km W	529	23.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Les Pineaux	85	489 km W	688	32.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Mouzay	37	370 km NW	460	20.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Paudy	36	306 km NW	437	27.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Aubin	10	383 km N	580	22	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

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