Les Plans

Gard · CA Alès Agglomération · INSEE 30197

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

Few services 24.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 61 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Les Plans (INSEE 30197) is in Gard (30), part of CA Alès Agglomération. Population 292 (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 24.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 61 % of the 17,786 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.83	5	4.16

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	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	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 102 2023: 292 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 242 (2012) → 292 (2023): 20.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 138 (1990) → 292 (2023): 111.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 143, of which 8.4 % second homes and 9.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.7 km EPharmacy — 3.0 km WGP — 4.3 km SWBakery — 5.0 km NWFood shop — 5.1 km N 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 (Salindres): 5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Allègre-les-Fumades): 5.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Mons): 4.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Mons): 3 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Brouzet-lès-Alès): 2.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 56.4▸

Days at or below 0 °C 45.3

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 56 days a year at or above 30 °C and 45 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the SALINDRES weather station, 5.8 km away at 191 m; the village itself is at 162 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at DEAUX, 9.6 km away at 185 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 1,072 mm of rain a year, spread over 77 days — about 13.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at SALINDRES, 5.8 km away at 191 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30197/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30197/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30197/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30197/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30305
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30008
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30173
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30055
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
Neuilly-sur-Suize	52	440 km N	291	16.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 74 % · humidity 71 %
Bettlach	68	449 km NE	300	20.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %
Les Authieux	27	576 km N	294	20.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 93 % · humidity 71 %
Jû-Belloc	32	343 km W	286	19.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 77 % · humidity 57 %
Lahosse	40	404 km W	288	21.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 49 % · winter 84 %
Santilly	28	480 km N	303	22.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 88 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Jû-Belloc	32	343 km W	286	19.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 77 % · humidity 57 %
Lahosse	40	404 km W	288	21.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 49 % · winter 84 %
Neuilly-sur-Suize	52	440 km N	291	16.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 74 % · humidity 71 %
Bettlach	68	449 km NE	300	20.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %
Santilly	28	480 km N	303	22.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 88 % · humidity 71 %
Les Authieux	27	576 km N	294	20.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 93 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Les Plans'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
Aussac	81	176 km W	255	21.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Potelières	30	9.1 km N	363	23	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Montagnac	30	23 km S	249	32	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Sieurac	81	173 km W	256	16.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Fontanès	34	46 km SW	358	17.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Murles	34	63 km SW	353	17.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

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