Potelières

Identity

Potelières (INSEE 30204) is in Gard (30), part of CC de Cèze Cévennes. Population 363 (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/30204-potelieres

Vitality score

Vitality score 23/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 48 % of the 18,039 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.

Services

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

1 × Restaurant (LA FONTAINE DU MAS). ^[3,4]

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

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]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 327 (2012) → 363 (2023): 11 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 256 (1990) → 363 (2023): 41.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 216, of which 9.7 % second homes and 9.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Rivières): 2.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Rivières): 2.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Julien-de-Cassagnas): 3.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Ambroix): 5.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Allègre-les-Fumades): 2.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

An average of 56 days a year at or above 30 °C and 35 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the MEJANNES-LE-CLAP weather station, 7.4 km away at 313 m; the village itself is at 142 m. ^[12]

The village sits 171 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at MEJANNES-LE-CLAP, 7.4 km away at 313 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 171 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 970 mm of rain a year, spread over 75 days — about 12.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at MEJANNES-LE-CLAP, 7.4 km away at 313 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30204/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30204/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30204/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30204/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 30215
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 30271
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 30227
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 30008
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024