Poyols

Identity

Poyols (INSEE 26253) is in Drôme (26), part of CC du Diois. Population 98 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[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/26253-poyols

Vitality score

Vitality score 20.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 84 % of the 10,424 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.

Services

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

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

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 69 (2012) → 98 (2023): 42 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 57 (1990) → 98 (2023): 71.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 115, of which 40 % second homes and 14.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Barnave): 7.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Recoubeau-Jansac): 6 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Luc-en-Diois): 2.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Châtillon-en-Diois): 11.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Luc-en-Diois): 3.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

An average of 35 days a year at or above 30 °C and 100 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the LUC-EN-DIOIS weather station, 3.1 km away at 537 m; the village itself is at 616 m. ^[12]

The village sits 79 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at BELLEGARDE-EN-D, 7.7 km away at 1,017 m, over 21 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 401 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 920 mm of rain a year, spread over 97 days — about 9.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LUC-EN-DIOIS, 3.1 km away at 537 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26253/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26253/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26253/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26253/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 26025
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 26262
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 26167
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 26086
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024