La Coucourde

Drôme · CA Montélimar Agglomération · INSEE 26106

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

Partly served 44.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 68 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Coucourde (INSEE 26106) is in Drôme (26), part of CA Montélimar Agglomération. Population 1,240 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/26106-la-coucourde

Vitality score

Vitality score 44.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 68 % of the 13,027 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	0.34	25	8.55
Social	0.46	20	9.18
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.43

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 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) (LA LOUTRE TOQUEE · LE FOURNIL D'ALAIN). ^[3,4]

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

5 × Restaurant (LOPEZ JUANA · LOULOU PIZZAS · LE RELAIS DES ROCHES). ^[3,4]

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

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

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

1 × Campsite (CAMPING FLORAL). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), 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	LA LOUTRE TOQUEE · LE FOURNIL D'ALAIN	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	LOULOU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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	5	LOPEZ JUANA · LOULOU PIZZAS · LE RELAIS DES ROCHES	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE FONDCHAUD	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	LA COUCOURDE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE LA COUCOURDE	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 SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING FLORAL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]

Market and village life

Weekly market (reported, unverified): Friday. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 522 2023: 1,240 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,008 (2012) → 1,240 (2023): 23 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 687 (1990) → 1,240 (2023): 80.5 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 582, of which 5.7 % second homes and 5.8 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 1.5 km NWPharmacy — 1.8 km NW 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 (La Coucourde): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

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

GP (Cruas): 1.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Cruas): 1.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 50.5▸

Days at or below 0 °C 21.7

Muggy days a summer 2.7

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 51 days a year at or above 30 °C and 22 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MARSANNE weather station, 7.2 km away at 280 m; the village itself is at 90 m. ^[11]

The village sits 190 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at MONTELIMAR, 8.3 km away at 73 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 955 mm of rain a year, spread over 89 days — about 10.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MARSANNE, 7.2 km away at 280 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

The market day comes from DATAtourisme and has not been confirmed by a second source. ^[5]

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26106/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2024-06— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/f7005a78-717a-3439-8ff3-879cdaa5cf22— “Marché hebdomadaire du vendredi matin.”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26106/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26106/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26106/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 26106
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07076
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
Le Bailleul	72	515 km NW	1,217	39.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 5 % · winter 76 % · humidity 86 %
Parigné	35	621 km NW	1,286	39.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Requeil	72	498 km NW	1,108	34	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 8 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Courlon-sur-Yonne	89	429 km N	1,183	36.9	Few services	no figures
Margès	26	59 km N	1,067	36.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 54 % · humidity 86 %
Abbévillers	25	351 km NE	1,071	37.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 4 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Margès	26	59 km N	1,067	36.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 54 % · humidity 86 %
Abbévillers	25	351 km NE	1,071	37.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 4 % · humidity 86 %
Courlon-sur-Yonne	89	429 km N	1,183	36.9	Few services	no figures
Requeil	72	498 km NW	1,108	34	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 8 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Le Bailleul	72	515 km NW	1,217	39.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 5 % · winter 76 % · humidity 86 %
Parigné	35	621 km NW	1,286	39.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %

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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 La Coucourde'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
Larnage	26	50 km N	1,009	36.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Péret	34	163 km SW	1,137	34.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Puy-Saint-Martin	26	15 km E	827	49.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Malataverne	26	18 km S	2,258	44.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Florent-sur-Auzonnet	30	70 km SW	1,218	34.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Vinsobres	26	41 km SE	1,034	35.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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