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Saint-Restitut

Drôme · CC Drôme Sud Provence · INSEE 26326

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

Partly served 50.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 78 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Restitut (INSEE 26326) is in Drôme (26), part of CC Drôme Sud Provence. Population 1,432 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). [2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/26326-saint-restitut

Vitality score

Vitality score 50.5/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 78 % of the 11,982 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 food0.34258.55
Social0.48209.5
Education0.39103.93
Health0.63106.29
Public & culture0.250.98
Population trend11010
Housing mix0.7453.71

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6
Eating out 1 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 1 of 3
Health 2 of 4
Public services 1 of 1
Culture 0 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. [3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE VERCASSON). [3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LE COMPTOIR D'ISA · LE CABANON). [3,4]

6 × Restaurant (RESTAURANT LES BUISSES · LE BISTROT SIDOINE · FOODSN'COWE · L'ATELIER · L'ALCOVE). [3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE ST RESTITUT). [3]

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (BERNARD RIVIERE, MÉDECIN · ARNAUD VICARD, MÉDECIN · ZOE DAGNIAUX, MÉDECIN · MICHAEL REMY, MÉDECIN). [3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE SAINT RESTITUT). [3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINT RESTITUT AP). [3]

2 × Hairdresser. [3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)1BOULANGERIE VERCASSONINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)2LE COMPTOIR D'ISA · LE CABANONINSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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]
Restaurant6RESTAURANT LES BUISSES · LE BISTROT SIDOINE · FOODSN'COWE · L'ATELIER · L'ALCOVEINSEE BPE 6 / INSEE SIRENE 7 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE PRIMAIRE ST RESTITUTINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)4BERNARD RIVIERE, MÉDECIN · ARNAUD VICARD, MÉDECIN · ZOE DAGNIAUX, MÉDECIN · MICHAEL REMY, MÉDECININSEE BPE 4 [3]
Pharmacy1PHARMACIE DE SAINT RESTITUTINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale1SAINT RESTITUT APINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser2INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

Weekly market (reported, unverified): Saturday. [5]

Trajectory

1968: 453 2023: 1,432 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,371 (2012) → 1,432 (2023): 4.4 % over 10 years. [6,1]

Population 947 (1990) → 1,432 (2023): 51.2 % over 30 years. [7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 830, of which 12.9 % second homes and 9.5 % vacant. [8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 km
In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Saint-Restitut): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

Food shop (Saint-Restitut): 0 km to the south (straight line). [9]

GP (Saint-Restitut): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Restitut): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Saint-Restitut): 0.2 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 40 days a year at or above 30 °C and 30 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the PIERRELATTE weather station, 6.4 km away at 51 m; the village itself is at 162 m. [10]

The village sits 111 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 2 days a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at MONTSEGUR-S-LAU, 6.5 km away at 146 m, over 28 summers. [10]

An average of 793 mm of rain a year, spread over 70 days — about 11.3 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at PIERRELATTE, 6.4 km away at 51 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

The market day comes from DATAtourisme and has not been confirmed by a second source. [5]

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26326/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. DATAtourisme 2026-01— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/0ff58c33-b7b7-3c7f-9637-4ba244c65233— “Marché hebdomadaire du samedi.”(unverified)
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26326/2012
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26326/1990
  8. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26326/logement/2023
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 26326
  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
Dasle25386 km NE1,36336.7Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 36 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Paul-de-Jarrat09297 km SW1,35239.3Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 43 % · humidity 79 %
Ammerschwihr68463 km NE1,58038.6Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Oderen68432 km N1,21543.5Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 26 % · winter 24 % · humidity 93 %
Muntzenheim68467 km NE1,28839.7Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 46 % · humidity 100 %
Bellengreville14655 km NW1,59836.7Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 13 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Paul-de-Jarrat09297 km SW1,35239.3Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 43 % · humidity 79 %
Dasle25386 km NE1,36336.7Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 36 % · humidity 93 %
Oderen68432 km N1,21543.5Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 26 % · winter 24 % · humidity 93 %
Ammerschwihr68463 km NE1,58038.6Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Muntzenheim68467 km NE1,28839.7Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 46 % · humidity 100 %
Bellengreville14655 km NW1,59836.7Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 13 % · winter 88 % · 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 Saint-Restitut'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
Beauvallon2659 km N1,65935.6Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
La Roche-de-Glun2676 km N3,56942.3Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Auberives-sur-Varèze38121 km N1,50139Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Bœuf42117 km N1,71254.9Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Les Roches-de-Condrieu38125 km N2,05542Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Jardin38130 km N2,17849.8Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %