Berlou

Hérault · CC du Minervois au Caroux · INSEE 34030

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

Few services 20.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 62 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Berlou (INSEE 34030) is in Hérault (34), part of CC du Minervois au Caroux. Population 211 (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/34030-berlou

Vitality score

Vitality score 20.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 62 % of the 16,263 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	10	0
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.59	10	5.93
Housing mix	0.14	5	0.72

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 1 of 4

Public services 0 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE FAITOUT). ^[3,4]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (MICHEL BABEAU, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BERLOU). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Primary school (élémentaire).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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	LE FAITOUT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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)	1	MICHEL BABEAU, 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BERLOU	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: 267 2023: 211 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 198 (2012) → 211 (2023): 6.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 193 (1990) → 211 (2023): 9.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 201, of which 42.8 % second homes and 6.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune GP Primary school — 5.3 km EFood shop — 5.6 km EBakery — 7.5 km SPharmacy — 8.1 km NW 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-Chinian): 7.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Roquebrun): 5.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

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

Pharmacy (Olargues): 8.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Roquebrun): 5.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 45▸

Days at or below 0 °C 11.4▸

Muggy days a summer 6.3

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 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the BERLOU weather station, 0.3 km away at 191 m; the village itself is at 214 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ST JEAN DE MINERVOIS, 14.3 km away at 258 m, over 18 summers. ^[12]

An average of 872 mm of rain a year, spread over 74 days — about 11.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at BERLOU, 0.3 km away at 191 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 — 34030/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34030/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34030/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34030/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34245
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34232
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34030
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34187
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
Beauregard	46	133 km NW	238	20.4	Few services	no figures
Sénéchas	30	126 km NE	247	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 82 % · humidity 71 %
Chaum	31	197 km W	205	14.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 43 % · humidity 71 %
Fillols	66	113 km SW	207	29.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 5 % · winter 31 % · humidity 79 %
La Vacquerie-et-Saint-Martin-de-Castries	34	52 km NE	210	28.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 46 % · humidity 71 %
Barnas	07	163 km NE	209	17.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 62 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Vacquerie-et-Saint-Martin-de-Castries	34	52 km NE	210	28.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 46 % · humidity 71 %
Fillols	66	113 km SW	207	29.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 5 % · winter 31 % · humidity 79 %
Sénéchas	30	126 km NE	247	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 82 % · humidity 71 %
Beauregard	46	133 km NW	238	20.4	Few services	no figures
Barnas	07	163 km NE	209	17.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 62 % · humidity 57 %
Chaum	31	197 km W	205	14.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 43 % · 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 Berlou'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
Pierrerue	34	6.8 km S	289	19.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Le Puech	34	36 km NE	262	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Liausson	34	37 km NE	156	13.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Usclas-du-Bosc	34	44 km NE	250	17.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Pila-Canale	2A	521 km E	271	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Vieussan	34	5.6 km N	267	16.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %

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