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Montguers

Drôme · CC des Baronnies en Drôme Provençale · INSEE 26201

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 3.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 4 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montguers (INSEE 26201) is in Drôme (26), part of CC des Baronnies en Drôme Provençale. Population 39 (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/26201-montguers

Vitality score

Vitality score 3.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 4 % of the 3,228 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.28102.8
Housing mix050

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 0 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 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 39 peak 1975: 58 2023: 39 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 48 (2012) → 39 (2023): -18.7 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 50 (1990) → 39 (2023): -22 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 60, of which 58.3 % second homes and 1.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

10 km20 kmPrimary school — 3.3 km W (Saint-Auban-sur-l'Ouvèze)GP — 3.3 km W (Saint-Auban-sur-l'Ouvèze)Food shop — 3.8 km W (Saint-Auban-sur-l'Ouvèze)Pharmacy — 10.8 km N (Rosans)Bakery — 10.9 km N (Rosans)
Primary school — 3.3 km WGP — 3.3 km WFood shop — 3.8 km WPharmacy — 10.8 km NBakery — 10.9 km N 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 (Rosans): 10.9 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Saint-Auban-sur-l'Ouvèze): 3.8 km to the west (straight line). [9]

GP (Saint-Auban-sur-l'Ouvèze): 3.3 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Rosans): 10.8 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Saint-Auban-sur-l'Ouvèze): 3.3 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 26 days a year at or above 30 °C and 97 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the ST-AUBAN-SUR-OUVEZE weather station, 4 km away at 625 m; the village itself is at 712 m. [10]

The village sits 87 m above 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 0 days a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at ST-AUBAN-SUR-OUVEZE, 4 km away at 625 m, over 23 summers. [10]

That station sits 87 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [10]

An average of 845 mm of rain a year, spread over 80 days — about 10.6 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at MONTAUBAN-S-OUV, 2.2 km away at 689 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26201/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26201/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26201/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26201/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05126
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 26292
  10. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Valavoire0448 km E395.6No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 0 % · humidity 100 %
Chanousse0517 km NE399.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Carpineto2B383 km SE3811.8No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 11 % · humidity 43 %
Sivergues8452 km S395.9No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Mela2A413 km SE378.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 1 % · humidity 93 %
Poggio-Marinaccio2B376 km SE3811.8No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 0 % · humidity 57 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Chanousse0517 km NE399.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Valavoire0448 km E395.6No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 0 % · humidity 100 %
Sivergues8452 km S395.9No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Poggio-Marinaccio2B376 km SE3811.8No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 0 % · humidity 57 %
Carpineto2B383 km SE3811.8No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 11 % · humidity 43 %
Mela2A413 km SE378.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 1 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Montguers'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Lemps267.5 km NW405.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Sallagriffon06124 km E475.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Laval-sur-Doulon43191 km NW595.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Le Bourguet83102 km SE4219.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Pradelle2638 km N264.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Arlet43186 km NW245.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %