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Montréal-les-Sources

Drôme · CC des Baronnies en Drôme Provençale · INSEE 26209

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

No daily shops 3.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 8 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montréal-les-Sources (INSEE 26209) is in Drôme (26), part of CC des Baronnies en Drôme Provençale. Population 26 (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/26209-montreal-les-sources

Vitality score

Vitality score 3.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 8 % of the 1,582 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 trend0.29102.88
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: 35 peak 1982: 37 2023: 26 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 30 (2012) → 26 (2023): -13.3 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 33 (1990) → 26 (2023): -21.2 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 44, of which 59.1 % second homes and 9.1 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 2.7 km W (Sahune)Bakery — 3.1 km NW (Sahune)Pharmacy — 4.6 km E (Rémuzat)GP — 4.7 km E (Rémuzat)Food shop — 6.8 km S (Sainte-Jalle)
Primary school — 2.7 km WBakery — 3.1 km NWPharmacy — 4.6 km EGP — 4.7 km EFood shop — 6.8 km S 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 (Sahune): 3.1 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Sainte-Jalle): 6.8 km to the south (straight line). [9]

GP (Rémuzat): 4.7 km to the east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Rémuzat): 4.6 km to the east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Sahune): 2.7 km to the west (straight line). [8]

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 33 days a year at or above 30 °C and 103 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the REMUZAT weather station, 6.3 km away at 475 m; the village itself is at 602 m. [11]

The village sits 127 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. [11]

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

Humidity measured at BESIGNAN, 9.1 km away at 556 m, over 30 summers. [11]

An average of 873 mm of rain a year, spread over 86 days — about 10.2 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at REMUZAT, 6.3 km away at 475 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26209/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26209/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26209/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26209/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 26288
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 26306
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 26264
  11. 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
Montferrand-la-Fare2613 km E274No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Varennes-Saint-Honorat43157 km NW260.8No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Le Clat11310 km SW281.8No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Mausoléo2B365 km SE2411.8No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Léger-du-Ventoux8421 km S253.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 3 % · humidity 93 %
Cathervielle31425 km SW284.1No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Montferrand-la-Fare2613 km E274No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Léger-du-Ventoux8421 km S253.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 3 % · humidity 93 %
Varennes-Saint-Honorat43157 km NW260.8No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Le Clat11310 km SW281.8No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Mausoléo2B365 km SE2411.8No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Cathervielle31425 km SW284.1No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Montréal-les-Sources'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
Pradelle2623 km N264.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Arlet43169 km NW245.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Chanousse0529 km E399.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Les Tonils2622 km N163.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Aucelon2625 km N175.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Pelonne267.6 km E237.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %