Montignargues

Gard · CA de Nîmes Métropole · INSEE 30180

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

Few services 24.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 39 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montignargues (INSEE 30180) is in Gard (30), part of CA de Nîmes Métropole. Population 556 (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/30180-montignargues

Vitality score

Vitality score 24.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 39 % of the 17,459 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.72

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 0 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, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE MONTIGNARGUES	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 91 peak 2012: 630 2023: 556 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 630 (2012) → 556 (2023): -11.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 205 (1990) → 556 (2023): 171.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 254, of which 2.8 % second homes and 2.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 0.5 km NEBakery — 2.2 km NEGP — 2.7 km NEPharmacy — 2.7 km NEFood shop — 2.8 km NE 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 (Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès): 2.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès): 2.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès): 2.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès): 2.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Montignargues): 0.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 54.4▸

Days at or below 0 °C 47.4

Muggy days a summer 4.6

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 54 days a year at or above 30 °C and 47 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LA ROUVIERE weather station, 3.4 km away at 79 m; the village itself is at 140 m. ^[10]

The village sits 61 m above 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at DEAUX, 16.3 km away at 185 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 891 mm of rain a year, spread over 67 days — about 13.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LA ROUVIERE, 3.4 km away at 79 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 — 30180/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30180/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30180/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30180/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30255
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30180
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
Contz-les-Bains	57	636 km N	548	21.5	Few services	no figures
Plaine-de-Walsch	57	575 km N	601	21.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 53 % · humidity 71 %
Paulhac	43	167 km NW	590	19.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 58 % · humidity 64 %
Geispitzen	68	485 km NE	516	21.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 70 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Vaast-de-Longmont	60	608 km N	654	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 95 % · humidity 71 %
Kindwiller	67	607 km NE	653	21.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 76 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Paulhac	43	167 km NW	590	19.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 58 % · humidity 64 %
Geispitzen	68	485 km NE	516	21.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 70 % · humidity 71 %
Plaine-de-Walsch	57	575 km N	601	21.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 53 % · humidity 71 %
Kindwiller	67	607 km NE	653	21.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 76 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Vaast-de-Longmont	60	608 km N	654	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 95 % · humidity 71 %
Contz-les-Bains	57	636 km N	548	21.5	Few services	no figures

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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 Montignargues'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
Parignargues	30	6.4 km S	629	16.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Vincent-de-Barbeyrargues	34	36 km SW	775	31.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Lirac	30	41 km E	955	43.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
La Barben	13	85 km SE	868	38.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Rouffiac	81	171 km W	639	22.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Montesquieu	47	302 km W	733	19.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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