Congénies

Gard · CC du Pays de Sommières · INSEE 30091

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

Partly served 42.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 55 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Congénies (INSEE 30091) is in Gard (30), part of CC du Pays de Sommières. Population 1,617 (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/30091-congenies

Vitality score

Vitality score 42.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 55 % of the 11,096 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	0.47	25	11.83
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.64

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 0 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (L'AMANDINE). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE NICOLAS ET FILS). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (EPICERIE DE LA GARE · CHEZ PAULETTE). ^[3,4]

1 × Fishmonger (FB CONGENIES). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LA GUINGUETTE DES OLIVIERS). ^[3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE LES AZURES). ^[3]

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE CONGENIES BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Café / bar, GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	L'AMANDINE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BOUCHERIE NICOLAS ET FILS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	EPICERIE DE LA GARE · CHEZ PAULETTE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	1	FB CONGENIES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Restaurant	1	LA GUINGUETTE DES OLIVIERS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE LES AZURES	INSEE BPE 1 [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	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	CONGENIES LPAC AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE CONGENIES 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	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: 473 peak 2017: 1,668 2023: 1,617 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,574 (2012) → 1,617 (2023): 2.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 903 (1990) → 1,617 (2023): 79.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 828, of which 3.6 % second homes and 8.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 0.5 km SWFood shop — 0.5 km SGP — 2.7 km SPharmacy — 2.8 km SW 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 (Congénies): 0.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Congénies): 0.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Aubais): 2.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Aubais): 2.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Congénies): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 62.5▸

Days at or below 0 °C 38.7

Muggy days a summer 7.2

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 63 days a year at or above 30 °C and 39 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the VILLEVIEILLE weather station, 6 km away at 41 m; the village itself is at 71 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at VILLEVIEILLE, 6 km away at 41 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 754 mm of rain a year, spread over 64 days — about 11.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at VILLEVIEILLE, 6 km away at 41 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30091/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30091/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30091/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30091/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30091
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30019
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-Clar-de-Rivière	31	240 km W	1,720	45.1	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 26 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Pamproux	79	441 km NW	1,686	47.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 3 % · winter 93 % · humidity 71 %
L'Ajoupa-Bouillon	972	6,898 km W	1,682	39.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 47 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Christophe	17	480 km NW	1,422	43.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Ouën-des-Toits	53	623 km NW	1,785	42	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %
Blaesheim	67	589 km NE	1,461	47	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 74 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Clar-de-Rivière	31	240 km W	1,720	45.1	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 26 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Pamproux	79	441 km NW	1,686	47.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 3 % · winter 93 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Christophe	17	480 km NW	1,422	43.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Blaesheim	67	589 km NE	1,461	47	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 74 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Ouën-des-Toits	53	623 km NW	1,785	42	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %
L'Ajoupa-Bouillon	972	6,898 km W	1,682	39.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 47 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Congénies'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
Montpeyroux	34	54 km W	1,449	43.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Moussac	30	23 km N	1,564	51.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Lézan	30	28 km N	1,561	48.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Aubord	30	12 km E	2,253	58	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Claret	34	23 km NW	1,745	51.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Mollégès	13	63 km E	2,647	66.8	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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