Aurel

Drôme · CC du Crestois et de Pays de Saillans Coeur de Drôme · INSEE 26019

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

Few services 25.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 68 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Aurel (INSEE 26019) is in Drôme (26), part of CC du Crestois et de Pays de Saillans Coeur de Drôme. Population 271 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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/26019-aurel

Vitality score

Vitality score 25.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 68 % of the 17,546 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	5	0
Population trend	0.83	10	8.28
Housing mix	0.3	5	1.48

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 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

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

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

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

1 × Campsite (CAMPING MUNICIPAL LA COLOMBE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[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	RESTAURANT LE COLOMBE	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 ELEMENTAIRE AUREL	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	CAMPING MUNICIPAL LA COLOMBE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 228 2023: 271 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 243 (2012) → 271 (2023): 11.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 204 (1990) → 271 (2023): 32.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 227, of which 35.2 % second homes and 4.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 6.8 km SEPharmacy — 8.0 km WGP — 8.1 km W 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 (Barnave): 6.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Aurel): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saillans): 8.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saillans): 8 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Aurel): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 42.4

Days at or below 0 °C 87.5

Muggy days a summer 0.4

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 42 days a year at or above 30 °C and 88 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the DIE weather station, 8.8 km away at 384 m; the village itself is at 433 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at DIE, 8.8 km away at 384 m, over 24 summers. ^[11]

An average of 961 mm of rain a year, spread over 91 days — about 10.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SAILLANS, 8.3 km away at 272 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26019/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26019/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26019/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26019/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 26025
INSEE BPE 2025 — 26019
INSEE BPE 2025 — 26289
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
Issor	64	509 km W	256	23.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 35 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Frion	23	273 km NW	251	19.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Simeyrols	24	313 km W	256	20	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 57 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Jean-Lachalm	43	128 km W	306	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 5 % · winter 50 % · humidity 100 %
Queyssac-les-Vignes	19	280 km W	235	17.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 58 % · humidity 71 %
Le Masnau-Massuguiès	81	243 km SW	248	11.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 65 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Jean-Lachalm	43	128 km W	306	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 5 % · winter 50 % · humidity 100 %
Le Masnau-Massuguiès	81	243 km SW	248	11.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 65 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Frion	23	273 km NW	251	19.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Queyssac-les-Vignes	19	280 km W	235	17.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 58 % · humidity 71 %
Simeyrols	24	313 km W	256	20	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 57 % · humidity 79 %
Issor	64	509 km W	256	23.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 35 % · humidity 36 %

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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 Aurel'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
Ponet-et-Saint-Auban	26	10 km N	141	13.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Vitrolles	05	61 km SE	221	22.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Lurs	04	94 km SE	385	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Monêtier-Allemont	05	62 km SE	302	29.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Antonin-sur-Bayon	13	133 km S	126	13.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Sahune	26	31 km S	301	40.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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