Vernoux-en-Vivarais

Ardèche · CA Privas Centre Ardèche · INSEE 07338

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

Served 62.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 95 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Vernoux-en-Vivarais (INSEE 07338) is in Ardèche (07), part of CA Privas Centre Ardèche. Population 1,982 (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/07338-vernoux-en-vivarais

Vitality score

Vitality score 62.6/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 95 % of the 9,685 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	0.52	25	13.03
Social	0.89	20	17.7
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.59	10	5.85
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.47	10	4.73
Housing mix	0.73	5	3.65

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 3 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 2 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 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]

3 × Bakery (boulangerie) (L'ATELIER DU DELICE · AUX PETITES DOUCEURS DU MARCHE). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LA BOITE A MERVEILLES). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (INTERMARCHE). ^[3,4]

10 × Restaurant (BISTROT DE LA GARE · RELAIS DES ARTS · L'ARDECHOIS · L'ESCALE D'ASIE). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar (GRAND CAFE DU MIDI · LE STARDECHE). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE). ^[3]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE PRESENTATION DE MARIE). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE DOCTEUR PIERRE DELARBRE). ^[3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (SYLVIE MARET, MÉDECIN · LUCAS LA FATA, MÉDECIN · BENEDICTE AUNAVE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

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

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

1 × Cinema. ^[3]

1 × Swimming pool (SITE DU LAC AUX RAMIERS). ^[3]

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

3 × Hairdresser (L'ATELIER COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

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

2 × Campsite (CAMPING MUNICIPAL LE BOIS DE PRA · CAMPING LA CROIX BLEUE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Primary school (élémentaire), 1 × Hairdresser.

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	3	L'ATELIER DU DELICE · AUX PETITES DOUCEURS DU MARCHE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	LA BOITE A MERVEILLES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	INTERMARCHE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	10	BISTROT DE LA GARE · RELAIS DES ARTS · L'ARDECHOIS · L'ESCALE D'ASIE	INSEE BPE 10 / INSEE SIRENE 15 [3,4]
Café / bar	3	GRAND CAFE DU MIDI · LE STARDECHE	INSEE SIRENE 3 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE PRESENTATION DE MARIE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE DOCTEUR PIERRE DELARBRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	SYLVIE MARET, MÉDECIN · LUCAS LA FATA, MÉDECIN · BENEDICTE AUNAVE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE VERNOUX	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	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	1		INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	1	SITE DU LAC AUX RAMIERS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Bank	2	CAISSE EPARGNE PREVO LOIRE DROME ARDECHE · CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL SUD RHONE ALPES	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Hairdresser	3	L'ATELIER COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	2	CAMPING MUNICIPAL LE BOIS DE PRA · CAMPING LA CROIX BLEUE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,941 peak 1990: 2,037 2023: 1,982 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,894 (2012) → 1,982 (2023): 4.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 2,037 (1990) → 1,982 (2023): -2.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,234, of which 13.5 % second homes and 13.4 % 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 (Vernoux-en-Vivarais): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Vernoux-en-Vivarais): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Vernoux-en-Vivarais): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Vernoux-en-Vivarais): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Vernoux-en-Vivarais): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 13.7

Days at or below 0 °C 58.5

Muggy days a summer 0.2

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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 59 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the VERNOUX weather station, 0.6 km away at 561 m; the village itself is at 584 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at VERNOUX SA, 1.6 km away at 510 m, over 20 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 74 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 1,190 mm of rain a year, spread over 99 days — about 12 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at VERNOUX, 0.6 km away at 561 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07338/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07338/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07338/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07338/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07338
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
Craponne-sur-Arzon	43	79 km NW	1,998	63.2	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 36 %
Rieupeyroux	12	202 km W	1,965	56.9	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Tulette	26	71 km S	1,994	63.9	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 59 % · humidity 86 %
Tocane-Saint-Apre	24	328 km W	1,742	54.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 61 % · humidity 50 %
L'Argentière-la-Bessée	05	151 km E	2,288	67.3	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 30 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet	66	289 km SW	1,742	51.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 36 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Tulette	26	71 km S	1,994	63.9	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 59 % · humidity 86 %
Craponne-sur-Arzon	43	79 km NW	1,998	63.2	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 36 %
L'Argentière-la-Bessée	05	151 km E	2,288	67.3	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 30 % · humidity 100 %
Rieupeyroux	12	202 km W	1,965	56.9	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet	66	289 km SW	1,742	51.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 36 % · humidity 64 %
Tocane-Saint-Apre	24	328 km W	1,742	54.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 61 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Vernoux-en-Vivarais'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
Château-Chinon (Ville)	58	247 km N	1,770	60.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Montmédy	55	517 km N	2,052	63.1	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Felletin	23	222 km NW	1,577	56.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Prémery	58	273 km N	1,734	50.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saulieu	21	267 km N	2,216	66.7	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Septeuil	78	498 km NW	2,264	59.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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