Seynes

Gard · CA Alès Agglomération · INSEE 30320

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

Few services 30.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 91 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Seynes (INSEE 30320) is in Gard (30), part of CA Alès Agglomération. Population 180 (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/30320-seynes

Vitality score

Vitality score 30.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 91 % of the 15,366 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.64	5	3.21

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LA FARIGOULETTE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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	1	LA FARIGOULETTE	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)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	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: 117 2023: 180 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 159 (2012) → 180 (2023): 13.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 116 (1990) → 180 (2023): 55.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 123, of which 17.9 % second homes and 4.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 8.4 km NEGP — 8.8 km WPharmacy — 9.0 km WBakery — 10.4 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 (Saint-Maurice-de-Cazevieille): 10.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Fons-sur-Lussan): 8.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Mons): 8.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Mons): 9 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Seynes): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 44.8▸

Days at or below 0 °C 10.5▸

Muggy days a summer 2

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 45 days a year at or above 30 °C and 11 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the BROUZET LES ALES weather station, 1.6 km away at 603 m; the village itself is at 271 m. ^[12]

The village sits 332 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 2 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at MEJANNES-LE-CLAP, 11.7 km away at 313 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 905 mm of rain a year, spread over 75 days — about 12.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at BROUZET LES ALES, 1.6 km away at 603 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 — 30320/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30320/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30320/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 30320/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30285
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30113
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30173
INSEE BPE 2025 — 30320
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
Adon	45	422 km N	188	24.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 49 % · winter 26 %
Torcy	62	728 km N	171	24.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Orville	21	390 km N	184	28	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 12 % · humidity 93 %
Sombrun	65	350 km W	194	23.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 49 % · humidity 43 %
La Ferté	39	332 km N	182	25.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 42 % · humidity 100 %
Cessoy-en-Montois	77	496 km N	213	27.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 38 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Ferté	39	332 km N	182	25.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 42 % · humidity 100 %
Sombrun	65	350 km W	194	23.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 49 % · humidity 43 %
Orville	21	390 km N	184	28	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 12 % · humidity 93 %
Adon	45	422 km N	188	24.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 49 % · winter 26 %
Cessoy-en-Montois	77	496 km N	213	27.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 38 % · humidity 100 %
Torcy	62	728 km N	171	24.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 65 % · 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 Seynes'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
Carbuccia	2A	444 km SE	379	33.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Guargualé	2A	455 km SE	146	14.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Peyremale	30	27 km NW	272	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Courry	30	23 km NW	281	14.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Bouquet	30	4.8 km N	198	24	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
San-Lorenzo	2B	449 km SE	138	34.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

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