Baron

Gard · CC Pays d'Uzès · INSEE 30030

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

Few services 30/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 72 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Baron (INSEE 30030) is in Gard (30), part of CC Pays d'Uzès. Population 337 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 30/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 72 % of the 18,047 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	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.57	5	2.85

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

1 × Restaurant (LA ROSE DES VENTS). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Hairdresser (PAULINE COIFFURE A DOMICILE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, 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 [3,4]
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	LA ROSE DES VENTS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE LUC ROUVEYROLLES	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	1	PAULINE COIFFURE A DOMICILE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 165 peak 2017: 356 2023: 337 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 338 (2012) → 337 (2023): -0.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 199 (1990) → 337 (2023): 69.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 205, of which 21.5 % second homes and 2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 4.4 km SWGP — 4.4 km SWBakery — 4.5 km SWPharmacy — 8.9 km E 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-Maurice-de-Cazevieille): 4.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Maurice-de-Cazevieille): 4.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Maurice-de-Cazevieille): 4.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Montaren-et-Saint-Médiers): 8.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Baron): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 52.2▸

Days at or below 0 °C 8.3▸

Muggy days a summer 1.6

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 52 days a year at or above 30 °C and 8 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the BROUZET LES ALES weather station, 9.1 km away at 603 m; the village itself is at 154 m. ^[11]

The village sits 449 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 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at UZES, 11.4 km away at 72 m, over 17 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 82 m below 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 905 mm of rain a year, spread over 75 days — about 12.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at BROUZET LES ALES, 9.1 km away at 603 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 — 30030/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30030/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30030/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30030/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30285
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30174
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30030
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 Cresse	12	93 km W	333	30.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Urbeis	67	527 km NE	309	28.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 14 % · humidity 93 %
Ayros-Arbouix	65	369 km W	349	33.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 23 % · winter 68 %
Saint-Geneys-près-Saint-Paulien	43	129 km N	313	28.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Salasc	34	91 km SW	357	30.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
Verdigny	18	384 km N	313	24.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 49 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Salasc	34	91 km SW	357	30.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
La Cresse	12	93 km W	333	30.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Geneys-près-Saint-Paulien	43	129 km N	313	28.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Ayros-Arbouix	65	369 km W	349	33.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 23 % · winter 68 %
Verdigny	18	384 km N	313	24.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 49 % · humidity 79 %
Urbeis	67	527 km NE	309	28.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 14 % · 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 Baron'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
Carbuccia	2A	440 km SE	379	33.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Laurent-le-Minier	30	52 km W	372	31.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Navacelles	30	13 km N	317	36.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Peyremale	30	33 km NW	272	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Pila-Canale	2A	451 km SE	271	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Vero	2A	437 km SE	640	50.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %

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