Sauzet

Drôme · CA Montélimar Agglomération · INSEE 26338

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

Partly served 53.8/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 82 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sauzet (INSEE 26338) is in Drôme (26), part of CA Montélimar Agglomération. Population 1,882 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/26338-sauzet

Vitality score

Vitality score 53.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 82 % of the 10,015 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	0.6	25	15.02
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.59	10	5.85
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.81	10	8.11
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.49

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 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 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LES PETITS PAINS D 'AMELIE · LENZO). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (J.N.S). ^[3,4]

3 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LE POTAGER D'HELOISE · MANCEAU IB). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LES SAULES · CAP L'ILOT). ^[3,4]

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

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ISABELLE MARCDARGENT-VIVION, MÉDECIN · JIMMY GIRARDET, MÉDECIN · EVA MOLINER, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE SAUZET). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE CROQU'LIVRES). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (L'EDEN LOOK). ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	LES PETITS PAINS D 'AMELIE · LENZO	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	J.N.S	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	3	LE POTAGER D'HELOISE · MANCEAU IB	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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	2	LES SAULES · CAP L'ILOT	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 9 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	ISABELLE MARCDARGENT-VIVION, MÉDECIN · JIMMY GIRARDET, MÉDECIN · EVA MOLINER, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE SAUZET	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE CROQU'LIVRES	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	L'EDEN LOOK	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 1,110 2023: 1,882 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,843 (2012) → 1,882 (2023): 2.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,436 (1990) → 1,882 (2023): 31.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,049, of which 5.1 % second homes and 8.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

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 (Sauzet): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sauzet): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Sauzet): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Sauzet): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Sauzet): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 47.5▸

Days at or below 0 °C 23.9

Muggy days a summer 3

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 48 days a year at or above 30 °C and 24 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the MARSANNE weather station, 6.1 km away at 280 m; the village itself is at 139 m. ^[9]

The village sits 141 m below 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. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at MONTBOUCHER-S-J, 6.5 km away at 136 m, over 26 summers. ^[9]

An average of 955 mm of rain a year, spread over 89 days — about 10.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at MARSANNE, 6.1 km away at 280 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26338/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26338/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26338/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26338/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 26338
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
Champagné-les-Marais	85	504 km NW	1,824	52.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 26 % · winter 93 %
Asson	64	438 km W	1,982	44.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 70 % · humidity 50 %
Cherveux	79	451 km NW	1,885	50.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Villé	67	457 km NE	1,799	57.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 47 % · humidity 93 %
Briatexte	81	251 km W	1,938	53.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 74 % · humidity 71 %
Manziat	01	195 km N	2,018	54.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 47 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Manziat	01	195 km N	2,018	54.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 47 %
Briatexte	81	251 km W	1,938	53.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 74 % · humidity 71 %
Asson	64	438 km W	1,982	44.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 70 % · humidity 50 %
Cherveux	79	451 km NW	1,885	50.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Villé	67	457 km NE	1,799	57.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 47 % · humidity 93 %
Champagné-les-Marais	85	504 km NW	1,824	52.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 26 % · winter 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 Sauzet'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
Cucuron	84	105 km SE	1,885	51.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Saulce-sur-Rhône	26	11 km N	1,892	49.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Puyloubier	13	138 km SE	1,768	41.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Cruas	07	7.4 km NW	2,898	57.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Visan	84	34 km S	1,857	45.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Caderousse	84	56 km S	2,493	61.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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