Dions

Gard · CA de Nîmes Métropole · INSEE 30102

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

Partly served 40.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 84 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Dions (INSEE 30102) is in Gard (30), part of CA de Nîmes Métropole. Population 527 (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 40.9/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 84 % of the 17,659 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	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.66	10	6.63
Housing mix	0.78	5	3.91

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LA GUINGUETTE DE DIONS). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE LUCIENNE JOUBERT). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (ADELAIDE COIFFURE · CANTY CHANTELLE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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)	1		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	1	LA GUINGUETTE DE DIONS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE LUCIENNE JOUBERT	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	2	ADELAIDE COIFFURE · CANTY CHANTELLE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 378 peak 2012: 598 2023: 527 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 598 (2012) → 527 (2023): -11.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 453 (1990) → 527 (2023): 16.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 340, of which 10.9 % second homes and 10.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school GP — 2.2 km EFood shop — 3.1 km WPharmacy — 3.3 km W 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 (Dions): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Calmette): 3.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Sainte-Anastasie): 2.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (La Calmette): 3.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 62.1▸

Days at or below 0 °C 44.4

Muggy days a summer 2.3

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 62 days a year at or above 30 °C and 44 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LA ROUVIERE weather station, 4.5 km away at 79 m; the village itself is at 68 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at UZES, 10.8 km away at 72 m, over 17 summers. ^[11]

An average of 891 mm of rain a year, spread over 67 days — about 13.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LA ROUVIERE, 4.5 km away at 79 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 — 30102/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30102/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30102/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30102/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30102
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30061
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30228
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
Roncherolles-en-Bray	76	668 km N	477	43.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Garrebourg	57	577 km N	485	38.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Didier-sur-Beaujeu	69	248 km N	603	46.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 57 % · humidity 100 %
La Chenalotte	25	399 km NE	549	45.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Crouzilles	37	464 km NW	528	31.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Recloses	77	507 km N	633	41	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Didier-sur-Beaujeu	69	248 km N	603	46.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 57 % · humidity 100 %
La Chenalotte	25	399 km NE	549	45.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Crouzilles	37	464 km NW	528	31.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Recloses	77	507 km N	633	41	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Garrebourg	57	577 km N	485	38.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Roncherolles-en-Bray	76	668 km N	477	43.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 85 % · 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 Dions'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
Fontaine-de-Vaucluse	84	67 km E	585	57.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Serviers-et-Labaume	30	13 km N	590	33.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Collorgues	30	8.1 km N	671	40.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Sauveur-de-Cruzières	07	41 km N	572	41.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Argilliers	30	17 km E	436	36.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Foissac	30	12 km N	445	36	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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