Laval-Pradel

Gard · CA Alès Agglomération · INSEE 30142

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

Few services 22/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 8 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Laval-Pradel (INSEE 30142) is in Gard (30), part of CA Alès Agglomération. Population 1,125 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/30142-laval-pradel

Vitality score

Vitality score 22/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 8 % of the 13,644 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	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.6	10	5.96
Housing mix	0.79	5	3.93

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LES DELICES DE BIBICHE). ^[4,3]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE LE PRADEL). ^[4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE LAVAL PRADEL BIBLIOTHÈQUE INTERCOMMUNALE). ^[4]

2 × Hairdresser (AU BOUDOIR D'ELODIE). ^[4,3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	1	LES DELICES DE BIBICHE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE LE PRADEL	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE LAVAL PRADEL BIBLIOTHÈQUE INTERCOMMUNALE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	2	AU BOUDOIR D'ELODIE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,743 2023: 1,125 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,188 (2012) → 1,125 (2023): -5.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,026 (1990) → 1,125 (2023): 9.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 676, of which 10.7 % second homes and 9.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 3.0 km SWBakery — 3.1 km NFood shop — 3.2 km SWPharmacy — 3.2 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 (Le Martinet): 3.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Grand-Combe): 3.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (La Grand-Combe): 3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (La Grand-Combe): 3.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Laval-Pradel): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 40.6

Days at or below 0 °C 16.4▸

Muggy days a summer 1.9

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 41 days a year at or above 30 °C and 16 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LA GRAND COMBE weather station, 4.1 km away at 499 m; the village itself is at 385 m. ^[11]

The village sits 114 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 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at LA GRAND COMBE, 4.1 km away at 499 m, over 23 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 114 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 1,366 mm of rain a year, spread over 84 days — about 16.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LA GRAND COMBE, 4.1 km away at 499 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 — 30142/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30142/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30142/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30142/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30159
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30132
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30142
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-Aubin-Épinay	76	617 km N	1,021	23.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 15 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Offenge	73	227 km NE	1,179	29.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 15 % · winter 31 % · humidity 86 %
Minzier	74	253 km NE	1,090	29.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 43 % · humidity 93 %
Châteauneuf-Villevieille	06	263 km E	997	36.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 86 % · humidity 57 %
Les Champs-Géraux	22	656 km NW	1,054	22.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 15 % · winter 78 %
Achères-la-Forêt	77	472 km N	1,191	24.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 23 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Offenge	73	227 km NE	1,179	29.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 15 % · winter 31 % · humidity 86 %
Minzier	74	253 km NE	1,090	29.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 43 % · humidity 93 %
Châteauneuf-Villevieille	06	263 km E	997	36.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 86 % · humidity 57 %
Achères-la-Forêt	77	472 km N	1,191	24.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 23 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Aubin-Épinay	76	617 km N	1,021	23.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 15 % · winter 78 % · humidity 93 %
Les Champs-Géraux	22	656 km NW	1,054	22.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 15 % · winter 78 %

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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 Laval-Pradel'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
La Tour-sur-Orb	34	97 km SW	1,350	28.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Savasse	26	70 km NE	1,631	37.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Cécile-d'Andorge	30	6.9 km W	525	29.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Cuttoli-Corticchiato	2A	466 km SE	2,060	35.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Moncaut	47	284 km W	589	38.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Monoblet	30	29 km SW	787	51.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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