Arre

Gard · CC du Pays Viganais · INSEE 30016

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

Few services 27.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 76 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Arre (INSEE 30016) is in Gard (30), part of CC du Pays Viganais. Population 252 (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/30016-arre

Vitality score

Vitality score 27.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 76 % of the 17,272 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.35	10	3.51
Housing mix	0.32	5	1.6

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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 food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (GENTY-BROCARD). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DES CEVENNES). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (ARRE AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'ARRE BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	GENTY-BROCARD	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DES CEVENNES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	ARRE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'ARRE BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	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	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: 388 2023: 252 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 293 (2012) → 252 (2023): -14 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 296 (1990) → 252 (2023): -14.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 247, of which 34 % second homes and 8.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 1.0 km NEFood shop — 4.8 km NE 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 (Arre): 0.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bréau-Mars): 4.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Bez-et-Esparon): 1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Arre): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 45.1▸

Days at or below 0 °C 14.1▸

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 45 days a year at or above 30 °C and 14 days at or below 0 °C, over 14 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MONTDARDIER weather station, 5.3 km away at 640 m; the village itself is at 315 m. ^[11]

The village sits 325 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.7 °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 MONTDARDIER, 5.3 km away at 640 m, over 14 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 325 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 1,441 mm of rain a year, spread over 90 days — about 16 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MONTDARDIER, 5.3 km away at 640 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 — 30016/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30016/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30016/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30016/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30016
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30052
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30038
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
La Bastide-d'Engras	30	78 km E	205	26.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 55 % · humidity 86 %
Chirols	07	101 km NE	289	21.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Isches	88	485 km N	176	23.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 42 % · humidity 86 %
Saurier	63	179 km N	245	23.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 10 % · winter 51 % · humidity 79 %
École	73	280 km NE	305	25.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 55 % · humidity 79 %
Molesme	21	446 km N	278	22.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 23 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Bastide-d'Engras	30	78 km E	205	26.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 55 % · humidity 86 %
Chirols	07	101 km NE	289	21.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saurier	63	179 km N	245	23.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 10 % · winter 51 % · humidity 79 %
École	73	280 km NE	305	25.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 55 % · humidity 79 %
Molesme	21	446 km N	278	22.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 23 % · humidity 86 %
Isches	88	485 km N	176	23.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 42 % · 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 Arre'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
Bez-et-Esparon	30	1.0 km NE	335	29.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
La Vernarède	30	53 km NE	364	34	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Prémian	34	74 km SW	479	41.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Pila-Canale	2A	500 km SE	271	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Joucas	84	139 km E	348	29.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Courry	30	63 km NE	281	14.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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