Bez-et-Esparon

Gard · CC du Pays Viganais · INSEE 30038

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

Few services 29.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 72 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bez-et-Esparon (INSEE 30038) is in Gard (30), part of CC du Pays Viganais. Population 335 (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 29.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 72 % of the 18,043 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	0.57	10	5.67
Housing mix	0.31	5	1.55

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AU FOURNIL D'ANGELE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CHRISTINE MARTINEZ-GAWRA, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (BEZ ET ESPARON AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BEZ ET ESPARON). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie).

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	AU FOURNIL D'ANGELE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	CHRISTINE MARTINEZ-GAWRA, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	BEZ ET ESPARON AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BEZ ET ESPARON	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		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: 377 2023: 335 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 352 (2012) → 335 (2023): -4.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 314 (1990) → 335 (2023): 6.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 304, of which 34.5 % second homes and 7.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 0.9 km SWFood shop — 3.9 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 (Bez-et-Esparon): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bréau-Mars): 3.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Bez-et-Esparon): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Arre): 0.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Bez-et-Esparon): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 45.3▸

Days at or below 0 °C 14▸

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, 4.9 km away at 640 m; the village itself is at 313 m. ^[11]

The village sits 327 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, 4.9 km away at 640 m, over 14 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 327 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, 4.9 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 — 30038/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30038/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30038/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30038/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30038
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30052
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30016
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
Recey-sur-Ource	21	436 km N	334	36.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 23 % · winter 61 %
Fay-sur-Lignon	43	126 km NE	335	43.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Coupiac	12	76 km W	353	40	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 57 %
Chalencon	07	131 km NE	328	36.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Martin-de-Lenne	12	68 km NW	340	28.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 8 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Yrieix-le-Déjalat	19	206 km NW	327	16.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 3 % · winter 19 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Martin-de-Lenne	12	68 km NW	340	28.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 8 % · humidity 86 %
Coupiac	12	76 km W	353	40	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 57 %
Fay-sur-Lignon	43	126 km NE	335	43.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Chalencon	07	131 km NE	328	36.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Yrieix-le-Déjalat	19	206 km NW	327	16.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 3 % · winter 19 %
Recey-sur-Ource	21	436 km N	334	36.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 23 % · winter 61 %

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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 Bez-et-Esparon'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
Arre	30	1.0 km SW	252	27.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Prémian	34	75 km SW	479	41.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Joucas	84	138 km E	348	29.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Faucon	84	133 km E	454	50.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · 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 %
La Vernarède	30	52 km NE	364	34	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

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