Roussas

Drôme · CC Enclave des Papes - Pays de Grignan · INSEE 26284

A school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink.

Few services 22.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 42 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Roussas (INSEE 26284) is in Drôme (26), part of CC Enclave des Papes - Pays de Grignan. Population 409 (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/26284-roussas

Vitality score

Vitality score 22.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 42 % of the 17,978 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	25	0
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.8	10	7.98
Housing mix	0.65	5	3.24

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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”.

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE LA VENCE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUB VALROUSSE	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE LA VENCE	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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE 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: 157 2023: 409 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 360 (2012) → 409 (2023): 13.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 315 (1990) → 409 (2023): 29.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 239, of which 17.6 % second homes and 4.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 1.7 km SEGP — 1.8 km SFood shop — 4.6 km WPharmacy — 7.2 km W 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 (Valaurie): 1.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Donzère): 4.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Valaurie): 1.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Donzère): 7.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Roussas): 0.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 52.7▸

Days at or below 0 °C 28.1

Muggy days a summer 2.5

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 53 days a year at or above 30 °C and 28 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the DONZERE weather station, 6.2 km away at 66 m; the village itself is at 126 m. ^[11]

The village sits 60 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 3 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at DONZERE, 6.2 km away at 66 m, over 25 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 60 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 972 mm of rain a year, spread over 81 days — about 12 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at AIGUEBELLE, 4.5 km away at 206 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26284/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26284/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26284/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26284/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 26360
INSEE BPE 2025 — 26116
INSEE BPE 2025 — 26284
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
Puygros	73	159 km NE	406	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Brémontier-Merval	76	614 km N	425	25	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 0 % · winter 68 %
Essertenne-et-Cecey	70	334 km N	427	23.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 19 % · humidity 93 %
Biffontaine	88	447 km N	390	19.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 9 % · humidity 86 %
Ayn	73	147 km NE	392	23.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 11 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Soucy	73	157 km NE	437	25.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 31 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Ayn	73	147 km NE	392	23.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 11 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Soucy	73	157 km NE	437	25.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 31 % · humidity 93 %
Puygros	73	159 km NE	406	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Essertenne-et-Cecey	70	334 km N	427	23.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 19 % · humidity 93 %
Biffontaine	88	447 km N	390	19.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 9 % · humidity 86 %
Brémontier-Merval	76	614 km N	425	25	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 0 % · winter 68 %

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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 Roussas'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
Lagarde-Paréol	84	23 km S	319	19.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Aubres	26	30 km E	420	29.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Martignargues	30	66 km SW	439	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Euzet	30	60 km SW	510	34.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Étienne-de-Gourgas	34	136 km SW	517	37	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Deaux	30	66 km SW	638	32.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %

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