Aumelas

Hérault · CC Vallée de l'Hérault · INSEE 34016

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

Few services 26.4/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 39 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Aumelas (INSEE 34016) is in Hérault (34), part of CC Vallée de l'Hérault. Population 624 (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/34016-aumelas

Vitality score

Vitality score 26.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 39 % of the 16,857 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.76	5	3.81

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 1 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]

2 × Restaurant (VIER DAISY). ^[3,4]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[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	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	2	VIER DAISY	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 225 2023: 624 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 504 (2012) → 624 (2023): 23.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 332 (1990) → 624 (2023): 88 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 335, of which 11.9 % second homes and 6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 3.9 km SWFood shop — 3.9 km SWPrimary school — 4.0 km SWGP — 4.2 km SWPharmacy — 6.1 km W 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 (Vendémian): 3.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Vendémian): 3.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Vendémian): 4.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Le Pouget): 6.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Vendémian): 4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 47.7▸

Days at or below 0 °C 36.1

Muggy days a summer 5.7

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 48 days a year at or above 30 °C and 36 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LE POUGET weather station, 6.7 km away at 70 m; the village itself is at 185 m. ^[10]

The village sits 115 m above 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at GIGNAC, 7.2 km away at 58 m, over 10 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 127 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 698 mm of rain a year, spread over 61 days — about 11.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LE POUGET, 6.7 km away at 70 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34016/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34016/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34016/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34016/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34328
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34210
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
Steige	67	599 km NE	623	21.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 55 % · humidity 71 %
Neuville Saint Denis	28	536 km N	647	21.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %
Reviers	14	706 km NW	627	24.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 77 % · humidity 64 %
Labastide-Gabausse	81	130 km W	547	21.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 84 % · humidity 79 %
Favières	28	577 km N	637	24.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Christophe	73	268 km NE	545	22.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 65 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Labastide-Gabausse	81	130 km W	547	21.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 84 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Christophe	73	268 km NE	545	22.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 65 % · humidity 71 %
Neuville Saint Denis	28	536 km N	647	21.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %
Favières	28	577 km N	637	24.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %
Steige	67	599 km NE	623	21.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 55 % · humidity 71 %
Reviers	14	706 km NW	627	24.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 77 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Aumelas'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
Loupiac	81	148 km W	445	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Lavergne	47	277 km NW	554	26.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Bézac	09	171 km W	485	32.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Roumagne	47	284 km NW	539	31.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Montdragon	81	122 km W	614	35.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Rouffiac	81	127 km W	639	22.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %

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