Le Grand-Serre

Drôme · CC Porte de Dromardèche · INSEE 26143

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

Served 65/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 98 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Grand-Serre (INSEE 26143) is in Drôme (26), part of CC Porte de Dromardèche. Population 973 (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/26143-le-grand-serre

Vitality score

Vitality score 65/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 98 % of the 14,462 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0.75	20	14.97
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.75	10	7.48
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.85	10	8.48
Housing mix	0.86	5	4.3

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 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]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Restaurant (GARCIA PORRA CHRISTINE). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (CAFE IDE-HALLES). ^[4]

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

1 × Collège (COLLEGE JOSEPH BEDIER). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (AUDREY LANTHEAUME, MÉDECIN · MATHILDE LEYGNIER, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DU BOURG). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LE GRAND SERRE AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE COMMUNALE LE GRAND-SERRE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF). ^[3]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LE GRAND CERF). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 3 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	VOTRE MARCHE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	1	GARCIA PORRA CHRISTINE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	CAFE IDE-HALLES	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE JOSEPH BEDIER	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	AUDREY LANTHEAUME, MÉDECIN · MATHILDE LEYGNIER, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DU BOURG	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	LE GRAND SERRE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE COMMUNALE LE GRAND-SERRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF	INSEE BPE 1 [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 LE GRAND CERF	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: 800 2023: 973 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 881 (2012) → 973 (2023): 10.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 722 (1990) → 973 (2023): 34.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 558, of which 7 % second homes and 10.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 0.5 km EPharmacy — 0.5 km E 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 (Le Grand-Serre): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Le Grand-Serre): 0.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Le Grand-Serre): 0.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Le Grand-Serre): 0.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Le Grand-Serre): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21.1

Days at or below 0 °C 48.7

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 49 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the ST-CHRISTOPHE-L_SAPC weather station, 5.1 km away at 452 m; the village itself is at 454 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at ST-SORLIN-EN-VA, 13.5 km away at 237 m, over 24 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 217 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 982 mm of rain a year, spread over 108 days — about 9.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at ST-CHRISTOPHE-L_SAPC, 5.1 km away at 452 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 — 26143/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26143/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26143/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26143/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 26143
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
Villefagnan	16	399 km W	972	66.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Rilly-la-Montagne	51	441 km N	1,003	48.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Fontaine-Française	21	252 km N	911	63.8	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Aignan-sur-Roë	53	556 km NW	949	59.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 91 %
Courson-les-Carrières	89	288 km NW	900	62.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Ury	77	391 km NW	882	60.9	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Fontaine-Française	21	252 km N	911	63.8	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Courson-les-Carrières	89	288 km NW	900	62.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Ury	77	391 km NW	882	60.9	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Villefagnan	16	399 km W	972	66.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Rilly-la-Montagne	51	441 km N	1,003	48.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Aignan-sur-Roë	53	556 km NW	949	59.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 91 %

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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 Le Grand-Serre'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
Villefagnan	16	399 km W	972	66.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Courson-les-Carrières	89	288 km NW	900	62.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Sainville	28	427 km NW	1,046	42.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Savigny-lès-Beaune	21	201 km N	1,268	54.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Reignac-sur-Indre	37	389 km NW	1,288	53.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Coudes	63	153 km W	1,225	54.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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