Saint-Gervais

Gard · CA du Gard Rhodanien · INSEE 30256

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

Partly served 46.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 84 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Gervais (INSEE 30256) is in Gard (30), part of CA du Gard Rhodanien. Population 801 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/30256-saint-gervais

Vitality score

Vitality score 46.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 84 % of the 15,636 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.84	10	8.35
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.54

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

2 × Restaurant (PUEL MARIE LINE · K FE VANILLE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (SERGE GALLOT, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINT GERVAIS ESCALE LPR RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SAINT-GERVAIS BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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	2	PUEL MARIE LINE · K FE VANILLE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	SERGE GALLOT, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	SAINT GERVAIS ESCALE LPR RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SAINT-GERVAIS 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 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: 528 2023: 801 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 672 (2012) → 801 (2023): 19.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 600 (1990) → 801 (2023): 33.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 460, of which 4.6 % second homes and 14.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school, GP Bakery — 2.9 km NWFood shop — 3.9 km EPharmacy — 4.3 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 (Saint-Michel-d'Euzet): 2.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bagnols-sur-Cèze): 3.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Gervais): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Bagnols-sur-Cèze): 4.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Gervais): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 36.1

Days at or below 0 °C 14.9▸

Muggy days a summer 7.4

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 36 days a year at or above 30 °C and 15 days at or below 0 °C, over 14 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SABRAN weather station, 5.7 km away at 204 m; the village itself is at 74 m. ^[11]

The village sits 130 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ST JULIEN DE PEYROLAS, 10.2 km away at 71 m, over 12 summers. ^[11]

An average of 830 mm of rain a year, spread over 68 days — about 12.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SABRAN, 5.7 km away at 204 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 — 30256/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30256/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30256/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30256/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30287
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30028
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30256
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
Verquières	13	47 km SE	772	48.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Ambonnay	51	545 km N	941	42.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 66 % · humidity 64 %
Barbaira	11	200 km SW	805	41.8	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %
Adé	65	388 km W	856	41.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 74 % · humidity 86 %
Beaumont-sur-Vesle	51	556 km N	767	35.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 43 % · humidity 57 %
Douzens	11	194 km SW	784	39.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Verquières	13	47 km SE	772	48.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Douzens	11	194 km SW	784	39.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %
Barbaira	11	200 km SW	805	41.8	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %
Adé	65	388 km W	856	41.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 74 % · humidity 86 %
Ambonnay	51	545 km N	941	42.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 66 % · humidity 64 %
Beaumont-sur-Vesle	51	556 km N	767	35.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 43 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Saint-Gervais'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
Alairac	11	218 km SW	1,395	35.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Maury	66	221 km SW	773	55.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Michel-d'Euzet	30	3.0 km NW	746	46	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Arzens	11	219 km SW	1,174	48.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Campagne-sur-Aude	11	237 km SW	618	56.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Sardos	82	277 km W	1,120	35.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %

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