Les Plantiers

Gard · CC Causses Aigoual Cévennes · INSEE 30198

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

Few services 31/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 87 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Les Plantiers (INSEE 30198) is in Gard (30), part of CC Causses Aigoual Cévennes. Population 228 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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/30198-les-plantiers

Vitality score

Vitality score 31/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 87 % of the 16,725 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.53	10	5.32
Housing mix	0	5	0

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 of 3

Lodging 1 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 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (GOYA). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (BAR LES TERRASSES - CHEZ DOMI). ^[4]

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUES DES PLANTIERS BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING DU CAYLOU). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[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)	1	GOYA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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]
Café / bar	1	BAR LES TERRASSES - CHEZ DOMI	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	LES PLANTIERS AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUES DES PLANTIERS BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	CAMPING DU CAYLOU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 257 2023: 228 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 233 (2012) → 228 (2023): -2.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 221 (1990) → 228 (2023): 3.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 308, of which 55.8 % second homes and 3.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 4.4 km NBakery — 4.8 km EPharmacy — 7.6 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 (L'Estréchure): 4.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Les Plantiers): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-André-de-Valborgne): 4.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Val-d'Aigoual): 7.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Les Plantiers): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 40.4

Days at or below 0 °C 58.2

Muggy days a summer 0.9

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 40 days a year at or above 30 °C and 58 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the VALLERAUGUE weather station, 8.1 km away at 360 m; the village itself is at 406 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at MONT AIGOUAL, 11.3 km away at 1,567 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 1,161 m above 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 1,527 mm of rain a year, spread over 95 days — about 16.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at SAINT ANDRE DE VALBORGNE, 3.1 km away at 354 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 — 30198/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30198/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30198/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30198/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30108
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30198
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30231
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30339
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-Donat	63	170 km NW	198	25.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Nazaire-le-Désert	26	133 km NE	206	31.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 38 % · humidity 93 %
Altier	48	41 km N	213	23	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Alzon	30	28 km SW	194	38.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Nozières	07	120 km NE	237	36.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Mhère	58	344 km N	226	13.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Alzon	30	28 km SW	194	38.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Altier	48	41 km N	213	23	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Nozières	07	120 km NE	237	36.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Nazaire-le-Désert	26	133 km NE	206	31.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 38 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Donat	63	170 km NW	198	25.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Mhère	58	344 km N	226	13.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Plantiers'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
Bassignac	15	170 km NW	223	14.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Izaire	12	82 km W	314	26.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Forgès	19	187 km NW	263	28.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Castellet-lès-Sausses	04	243 km E	143	15.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Ginals	82	149 km W	203	9.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Montagnac-Montpezat	04	194 km E	401	49.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

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