Beaulieu

Hérault · Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole · INSEE 34027

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

Partly served 56.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 85 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Beaulieu (INSEE 34027) is in Hérault (34), part of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole. Population 2,264 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). ^[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/34027-beaulieu

Vitality score

Vitality score 56.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 85 % of the 8,799 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	0.59	20	11.7
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.66	10	6.56
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.8

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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”.

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (COTE GOURMANDISES). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LES PIES SE RIENT). ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (LES SAVEURS DU CAMBODGE · CHEZ PHILA · LE ST DREZ). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE LA JASSE · ECOLE MATERNELLE LES ESQUIROLS). ^[3]

5 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CAPUCINE HUGODOT, MÉDECIN · AUDREY JUSSEAUME, MÉDECIN · CELINE LECONTE, MÉDECIN · NATHALIE BENEZET-BOURGEOIS, MÉDECIN · OLIVIER ESTIME, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE BEAULIEU RESTINCLIERES). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (COIFFURE FRANCIS · SANTINO COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	COTE GOURMANDISES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	LES PIES SE RIENT	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	3	LES SAVEURS DU CAMBODGE · CHEZ PHILA · LE ST DREZ	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE LA JASSE · ECOLE MATERNELLE LES ESQUIROLS	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	5	CAPUCINE HUGODOT, MÉDECIN · AUDREY JUSSEAUME, MÉDECIN · CELINE LECONTE, MÉDECIN · NATHALIE BENEZET-BOURGEOIS, MÉDECIN · OLIVIER ESTIME, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 5 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE BEAULIEU RESTINCLIERES	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	BEAULIEU AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	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	2	COIFFURE FRANCIS · SANTINO COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 508 2023: 2,264 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,667 (2012) → 2,264 (2023): 35.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 921 (1990) → 2,264 (2023): 145.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,009, of which 2 % second homes and 5.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 0.7 km E 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 (Beaulieu): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Beaulieu): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Beaulieu): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Beaulieu): 0.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Beaulieu): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 59.6▸

Days at or below 0 °C 41.6

Muggy days a summer 5.4

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 60 days a year at or above 30 °C and 42 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the ST DREZERY weather station, 2.2 km away at 71 m; the village itself is at 100 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at PRADES LE LEZ, 12.5 km away at 69 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

An average of 786 mm of rain a year, spread over 66 days — about 11.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at ST DREZERY, 2.2 km away at 71 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34027/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34027/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34027/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34027/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34027
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
Évrecy	14	690 km NW	2,066	62.5	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 81 % · humidity 71 %
Gonnehem	62	768 km N	2,525	51.1	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 95 % · humidity 71 %
Vivier-au-Court	08	671 km N	2,732	47.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 77 % · humidity 64 %
Entre-Vignes	34	4.7 km E	2,200	60	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 91 % · humidity 43 %
Sarras	07	174 km N	2,220	58.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Nogent-l'Artaud	02	585 km N	2,134	42.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Entre-Vignes	34	4.7 km E	2,200	60	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 91 % · humidity 43 %
Sarras	07	174 km N	2,220	58.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Nogent-l'Artaud	02	585 km N	2,134	42.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Vivier-au-Court	08	671 km N	2,732	47.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 77 % · humidity 64 %
Évrecy	14	690 km NW	2,066	62.5	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 81 % · humidity 71 %
Gonnehem	62	768 km N	2,525	51.1	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 95 % · 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 Beaulieu'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
Alleins	13	92 km E	2,852	59.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Mamert-du-Gard	30	22 km NE	1,604	43.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Restinclières	34	1.5 km SE	2,612	43.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Sussargues	34	2.3 km SW	2,840	43.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Geniès-de-Malgoirès	30	29 km NE	3,225	43.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Fons	30	24 km NE	1,735	45.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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