Bassan

Hérault · CA de Béziers-Méditerranée · INSEE 34025

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

Partly served 46.7/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 57 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bassan (INSEE 34025) is in Hérault (34), part of CA de Béziers-Méditerranée. Population 2,383 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/34025-bassan

Vitality score

Vitality score 46.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 57 % of the 8,518 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.88	5	4.42

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 1 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”.

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE LEININGER). ^[3,4]

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

4 × Restaurant (EPICES ET TOUT · TYZOLI SNACK · BRASSERIE DES AMIS). ^[3,4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (MARILYS BRINGER, MÉDECIN · THIBAULT CAYLUS, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE THOMAS BOUET). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Gym / sports hall (HALLE AUX SPORTS). ^[3]

4 × Hairdresser (ARTISTIF · LT FRANCE · UNE POINTE DE REVE · MAM'ZELLE MAGA COIFFEUSE A DOMICILE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BOULANGERIE LEININGER	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	CHEZ L EPICIER	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	4	EPICES ET TOUT · TYZOLI SNACK · BRASSERIE DES AMIS	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 9 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	MARILYS BRINGER, MÉDECIN · THIBAULT CAYLUS, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE THOMAS BOUET	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	BASSAN AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	HALLE AUX SPORTS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	4	ARTISTIF · LT FRANCE · UNE POINTE DE REVE · MAM'ZELLE MAGA COIFFEUSE A DOMICILE	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 735 2023: 2,383 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,793 (2012) → 2,383 (2023): 32.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,353 (1990) → 2,383 (2023): 76.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,231, of which 5.8 % second homes and 5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Bassan): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bassan): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Bassan): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Bassan): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Bassan): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 46.7▸

Days at or below 0 °C 23.1

Muggy days a summer 6.1

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 47 days a year at or above 30 °C and 23 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the SERVIAN weather station, 7.1 km away at 66 m; the village itself is at 82 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at ROUJAN-INRAE, 10.5 km away at 73 m, over 15 summers. ^[9]

An average of 653 mm of rain a year, spread over 58 days — about 11.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at SERVIAN, 7.1 km away at 66 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34025/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34025/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34025/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34025/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34025
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-Quentin-de-Baron	33	323 km NW	2,713	49.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Demigny	71	411 km N	1,756	41.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 39 % · humidity 64 %
Castets	40	358 km W	2,516	57.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 73 % · humidity 86 %
Jujurieux	01	338 km NE	2,260	48.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 39 % · humidity 71 %
Ostheim	68	617 km NE	1,651	39.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 46 % · humidity 71 %
Muttersholtz	67	633 km NE	2,290	51	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 49 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Quentin-de-Baron	33	323 km NW	2,713	49.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Jujurieux	01	338 km NE	2,260	48.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 39 % · humidity 71 %
Castets	40	358 km W	2,516	57.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 73 % · humidity 86 %
Demigny	71	411 km N	1,756	41.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 39 % · humidity 64 %
Ostheim	68	617 km NE	1,651	39.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 46 % · humidity 71 %
Muttersholtz	67	633 km NE	2,290	51	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 49 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Bassan'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
Astaffort	47	221 km W	1,972	49	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Mérindol	84	162 km E	2,283	65.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saulce-sur-Rhône	26	189 km NE	1,892	49.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Laurens	34	13 km N	1,815	56.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Cruas	07	184 km NE	2,898	57.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux	81	107 km W	1,054	50.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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