Blandas

Gard · CC du Pays Viganais · INSEE 30040

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

Few services 26.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 90 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Blandas (INSEE 30040) is in Gard (30), part of CC du Pays Viganais. Population 143 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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 26.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 90 % of the 13,700 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	0.75	20	14.97
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.78	10	7.77
Housing mix	0	5	0

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 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”.

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

2 × Restaurant (LE BELVEDERE DE BLANDAS · AUBERGE DE BLANDAS). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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	2	LE BELVEDERE DE BLANDAS · AUBERGE DE BLANDAS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 141 2023: 143 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 134 (2012) → 143 (2023): 6.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 112 (1990) → 143 (2023): 27.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 159, of which 50.3 % second homes and 6.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 6.1 km NPrimary school — 6.1 km NPharmacy — 6.1 km NGP — 6.8 km NFood shop — 8.4 km NW 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): 6.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Alzon): 8.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Bez-et-Esparon): 6.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Arre): 6.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Arre): 6.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.4

Days at or below 0 °C 29.9

Muggy days a summer 0.9

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

Measured at the MONTDARDIER weather station, 6.5 km away at 640 m; the village itself is at 650 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at MONTDARDIER, 6.5 km away at 640 m, over 14 summers. ^[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, 6.5 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 — 30040/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30040/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30040/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30040/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30016
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30009
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
Saint-Denis-en-Margeride	48	92 km N	148	15.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Bouzic	24	204 km NW	160	25.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Larnagol	46	152 km NW	135	19	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 36 % · winter 84 %
Saujac	12	145 km NW	126	20.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 77 % · humidity 79 %
Cros-de-Ronesque	15	129 km NW	145	20.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 36 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Laurent-de-Lévézou	12	55 km NW	161	25.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Laurent-de-Lévézou	12	55 km NW	161	25.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Denis-en-Margeride	48	92 km N	148	15.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Cros-de-Ronesque	15	129 km NW	145	20.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 36 % · humidity 93 %
Saujac	12	145 km NW	126	20.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 77 % · humidity 79 %
Larnagol	46	152 km NW	135	19	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 36 % · winter 84 %
Bouzic	24	204 km NW	160	25.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · 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 Blandas'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
Sylvanès	12	45 km W	116	14.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Séniergues	46	179 km NW	146	25.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Durbans	46	163 km NW	158	18.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Carbini	2A	522 km SE	117	16	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Soulomès	46	173 km NW	131	15.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Sénaillac-Lauzès	46	167 km NW	145	7.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

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