Vocance

Ardèche · CA Annonay Rhône Agglo · INSEE 07347

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

Partly served 45.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 88 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Vocance (INSEE 07347) is in Ardèche (07), part of CA Annonay Rhône Agglo. Population 613 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 45.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 88 % of the 16,938 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	0.5	25	12.47
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.43	10	4.27
Housing mix	0.82	5	4.09

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (MAISON CHOMAT). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (CONSERVES ET TERRINES D'ARDECHE). ^[3]

2 × Restaurant (M.MICHAEL SIMONE). ^[3,4]

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

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

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

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	MAISON CHOMAT	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	CONSERVES ET TERRINES D'ARDECHE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 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	2	M.MICHAEL SIMONE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	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	1	VOCANCE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 823 2023: 613 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 584 (2012) → 613 (2023): 5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 661 (1990) → 613 (2023): -7.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 375, of which 9.1 % second homes and 14.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 0.9 km SWGP — 3.7 km NEPharmacy — 3.9 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 (Vocance): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Vocance): 0.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Villevocance): 3.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Villevocance): 3.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.9

Days at or below 0 °C 45.1

Muggy days a summer 0.9

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 17 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 LALOUVESC weather station, 9.5 km away at 1,090 m; the village itself is at 504 m. ^[10]

The village sits 586 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 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at PREAUX SA, 11.1 km away at 525 m, over 26 summers. ^[10]

An average of 959 mm of rain a year, spread over 111 days — about 8.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at VOCANCE, 0.1 km away at 529 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 — 07347/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07347/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07347/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 07347/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07347
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07342
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
La Chaux-du-Dombief	39	188 km NE	574	47.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Beauregard-de-Terrasson	24	261 km W	731	42.2	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 84 % · humidity 79 %
Rancy	71	161 km N	616	39.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 73 % · humidity 79 %
Cébazan	34	236 km SW	646	41.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 55 % · humidity 50 %
Le Dézert	50	620 km NW	601	40.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 62 % · winter 76 %
Préaux	07	11 km SE	708	45.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Préaux	07	11 km SE	708	45.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Rancy	71	161 km N	616	39.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 73 % · humidity 79 %
La Chaux-du-Dombief	39	188 km NE	574	47.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Cébazan	34	236 km SW	646	41.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 55 % · humidity 50 %
Beauregard-de-Terrasson	24	261 km W	731	42.2	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 84 % · humidity 79 %
Le Dézert	50	620 km NW	601	40.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 62 % · winter 76 %

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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 Vocance'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
Préaux	07	11 km SE	708	45.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Everly	77	376 km N	566	35	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Chargey-lès-Gray	70	266 km N	667	37.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Sceaux-du-Gâtinais	45	356 km NW	606	38.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Champrond-en-Gâtine	28	444 km NW	744	44.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Port-Lesney	39	223 km NE	532	37.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %

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