Fontarèches

Identity

Fontarèches (INSEE 30115) is in Gard (30), part of CC Pays d'Uzès. Population 256 (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 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/30115-fontareches

Vitality score

Vitality score 28.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 79 % of the 17,315 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.

Services

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

1 × Restaurant (AUX EPICES DE MANJULA). ^[3,4]

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

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

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]

Market and village life

Weekly market (reported, unverified): Thursday. ^[5]

Trajectory

Population 251 (2012) → 256 (2023): 2 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 148 (1990) → 256 (2023): 73 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 200, of which 32 % second homes and 7.5 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Saint-Laurent-la-Vernède): 1.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Saint-Laurent-la-Vernède): 1.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Laurent-la-Vernède): 1.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie): 7.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Fontarèches): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

An average of 43 days a year at or above 30 °C and 68 days at or below 0 °C, over 12 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the LUSSAN-PRAT weather station, 4 km away at 226 m; the village itself is at 245 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at UZES, 13.2 km away at 72 m, over 17 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 173 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 937 mm of rain a year, spread over 74 days — about 12.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LUSSAN-PRAT, 4 km away at 226 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

What property sold for

34 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 379,500 € — 2,627 € per m² of built surface. ^[13]

The median across Gard is 2,338 € per m², so this commune sits above it. ^[13]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

The market day comes from DATAtourisme and has not been confirmed by a second source. ^[5]

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30115/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. DATAtourisme 2024-08— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/09011a38-5928-3ec5-a3fe-d4efd5e193eb— “Retrouvez tous les jeudis, ce petit marché de producteurs locaux au cœur du village.”(unverified)
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30115/2012
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30115/1990
8. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30115/logement/2023
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 30279
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 30295
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 30115
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
13. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025