Serves-sur-Rhône

Drôme · CA Arche Agglo · INSEE 26341

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

Few services 31/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 45 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Serves-sur-Rhône (INSEE 26341) is in Drôme (26), part of CA Arche Agglo. Population 782 (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/26341-serves-sur-rhone

Vitality score

Vitality score 31/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 45 % of the 15,781 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.75	10	7.53
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.6

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant (AU PRE DU RHONE). ^[3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE L'AQUARELLE). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SERVES SUR RHONE AP). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[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	1	AU PRE DU RHONE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE L'AQUARELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	SERVES SUR RHONE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / 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: 453 2023: 782 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 763 (2012) → 782 (2023): 2.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 624 (1990) → 782 (2023): 25.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 349, of which 4 % second homes and 4.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 0.9 km WBakery — 1.7 km SPharmacy — 4.2 km NGP — 5.0 km N 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 (Érôme): 1.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Arras-sur-Rhône): 0.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Vallier): 5 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Vallier): 4.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Serves-sur-Rhône): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 55.3▸

Days at or below 0 °C 32.6

Muggy days a summer 2.8

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 55 days a year at or above 30 °C and 33 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the GERVANS weather station, 3 km away at 157 m; the village itself is at 129 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at MARSAZ, 9.8 km away at 213 m, over 24 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 84 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 839 mm of rain a year, spread over 93 days — about 9 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at GERVANS, 3 km away at 157 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26341/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26341/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26341/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26341/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 26119
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07015
INSEE BPE 2025 — 26333
INSEE BPE 2025 — 26341
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
Plassay	17	439 km W	823	33.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 15 % · winter 93 % · humidity 79 %
Bouville	91	414 km NW	669	33.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 70 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Androny	33	428 km W	582	28.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 84 % · humidity 50 %
Pomerol	33	395 km W	608	28.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Cliousclat	26	47 km S	611	33	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Orrouy	60	485 km N	572	29.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Cliousclat	26	47 km S	611	33	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Pomerol	33	395 km W	608	28.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Bouville	91	414 km NW	669	33.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 70 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Androny	33	428 km W	582	28.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 84 % · humidity 50 %
Plassay	17	439 km W	823	33.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 15 % · winter 93 % · humidity 79 %
Orrouy	60	485 km N	572	29.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Serves-sur-Rhône'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
Arcambal	46	271 km W	1,004	26.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Monteils	30	127 km SW	692	37.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Clansayes	26	85 km S	517	20.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Pont-de-Barret	26	62 km S	657	41	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Valaurie	26	80 km S	732	38.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Ponsas	26	2.7 km NE	523	28.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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