Montfaucon

Gard · CA du Gard Rhodanien · INSEE 30178

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

Few services 39.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 46 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montfaucon (INSEE 30178) is in Gard (30), part of CA du Gard Rhodanien. Population 1,540 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). ^[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/30178-montfaucon

Vitality score

Vitality score 39.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 46 % of the 11,431 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.72	10	7.16
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.71

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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) (G.C.B). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (LE CABANON DES 3 FRERES). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LA DILIGENCE D'OR). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (BAR TABAC DU CHATEAU · LE RENDEZ-VOUS). ^[4]

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

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

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

2 × Hairdresser (ANGELIQUE COIFFURE · ACTUEL'S COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	G.C.B	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	LE CABANON DES 3 FRERES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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 DILIGENCE D'OR	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	BAR TABAC DU CHATEAU · LE RENDEZ-VOUS	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	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	MONTFAUCON AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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	ANGELIQUE COIFFURE · ACTUEL'S COIFFURE	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: 658 2023: 1,540 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,443 (2012) → 1,540 (2023): 6.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,266 (1990) → 1,540 (2023): 21.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 717, of which 2.9 % second homes and 5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery Food shop — 0.6 km SPrimary school — 1.2 km WGP — 2.7 km SWPharmacy — 3.1 km SE 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 (Montfaucon): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Montfaucon): 0.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Geniès-de-Comolas): 2.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Roquemaure): 3.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Montfaucon): 1.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 62.3▸

Days at or below 0 °C 18.2▸

Muggy days a summer 9.8

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 18 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CHUSCLAN weather station, 7.7 km away at 30 m; the village itself is at 29 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 10 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CHUSCLAN, 7.7 km away at 30 m, over 26 summers. ^[11]

An average of 753 mm of rain a year, spread over 67 days — about 11.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ROQUEMAURE, 3.8 km away at 25 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 — 30178/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30178/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30178/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30178/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30178
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30254
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30221
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
Joncherey	90	422 km NE	1,451	28.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 36 %
Fons	30	48 km W	1,735	45.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 65 % · humidity 71 %
Willer-sur-Thur	68	456 km N	1,773	42.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 36 %
Ramonchamp	88	451 km N	1,815	40.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 12 % · humidity 36 %
Menneval	27	642 km NW	1,527	49.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 46 % · humidity 36 %
Assat	64	417 km W	2,068	48.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Fons	30	48 km W	1,735	45.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 65 % · humidity 71 %
Assat	64	417 km W	2,068	48.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %
Joncherey	90	422 km NE	1,451	28.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 36 %
Ramonchamp	88	451 km N	1,815	40.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 12 % · humidity 36 %
Willer-sur-Thur	68	456 km N	1,773	42.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 36 %
Menneval	27	642 km NW	1,527	49.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 46 % · humidity 36 %

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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 Montfaucon'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
Saint-Geniès-de-Comolas	30	2.7 km W	2,014	38.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Arles-sur-Tech	66	249 km SW	2,815	57.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Orsan	30	9.4 km NW	1,190	36.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Théziers	30	22 km SW	1,087	35.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Comps	30	27 km SW	1,688	41.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Vallabrègues	30	27 km S	1,375	54	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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