Gervans

Drôme · CA Arche Agglo · INSEE 26380

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

Few services 39.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 81 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Gervans (INSEE 26380) is in Drôme (26), part of CA Arche Agglo. Population 545 (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/26380-gervans

Vitality score

Vitality score 39.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 81 % of the 17,551 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	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.77

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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 (PIZZA 7). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUB JEAN MERMOZ). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, 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]
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	PIZZA 7	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUB JEAN MERMOZ	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	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 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: 268 peak 2012: 565 2023: 545 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 565 (2012) → 545 (2023): -3.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 341 (1990) → 545 (2023): 59.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 258, of which 2.3 % second homes and 6.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 1.9 km NWFood shop — 2.1 km WGP — 2.9 km SWPharmacy — 3.8 km S 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): 1.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Vion): 2.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Jean-de-Muzols): 2.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Jean-de-Muzols): 3.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Gervans): 0.2 km to the north-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 2.2

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, 0.5 km away at 157 m; the village itself is at 145 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at MERCUROL, 6.9 km away at 153 m, over 26 summers. ^[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, 0.5 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 — 26380/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26380/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26380/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 26380/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 26119
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07345
INSEE BPE 2025 — 07245
INSEE BPE 2025 — 26380
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
Courson-Monteloup	91	438 km NW	563	39.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Dargoire	42	52 km N	524	40.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Yvoine	63	136 km NW	553	39.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 43 % · humidity 86 %
Larbroye	60	516 km N	505	37.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Flévy	57	472 km N	602	41.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 0 % · winter 80 %
Erquinghem-le-Sec	59	628 km N	620	39.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Dargoire	42	52 km N	524	40.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Yvoine	63	136 km NW	553	39.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 43 % · humidity 86 %
Courson-Monteloup	91	438 km NW	563	39.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Flévy	57	472 km N	602	41.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 0 % · winter 80 %
Larbroye	60	516 km N	505	37.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Erquinghem-le-Sec	59	628 km N	620	39.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 97 % · 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 Gervans'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
Roynac	26	52 km S	477	39.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Ponsas	26	5.6 km N	523	28.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Les Tourrettes	26	50 km S	1,087	34.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Pradons	07	80 km SW	545	28.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Marcel-de-Careiret	30	111 km S	870	42.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Chamaret	26	79 km S	542	38.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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