La Boissière

Hérault · CC Vallée de l'Hérault · INSEE 34035

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

Few services 32.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 37 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Boissière (INSEE 34035) is in Hérault (34), part of CC Vallée de l'Hérault. Population 1,072 (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/34035-la-boissiere

Vitality score

Vitality score 32.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 37 % of the 13,909 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.53

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 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 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (EC PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LES HIRONDELLES DU COULAZOU). ^[3]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA BOISSIERE). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (LA COUPE AU POIL). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[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)	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	EC PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LES HIRONDELLES DU COULAZOU	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	1	LA BOISSIERE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE DE LA BOISSIERE	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	LA COUPE AU POIL	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: 221 2023: 1,072 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 948 (2012) → 1,072 (2023): 13.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 594 (1990) → 1,072 (2023): 80.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 511, of which 4.7 % second homes and 6.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 4.3 km EBakery — 4.6 km EFood shop — 4.6 km NEPharmacy — 5.9 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 (Montarnaud): 4.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Argelliers): 4.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Montarnaud): 4.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Aniane): 5.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (La Boissière): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 48.2▸

Days at or below 0 °C 40.8

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 41 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the MONTARNAUD weather station, 4.6 km away at 148 m; the village itself is at 204 m. ^[12]

The village sits 56 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. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at GIGNAC, 6.6 km away at 58 m, over 10 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 146 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 914 mm of rain a year, spread over 69 days — about 13.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at MONTARNAUD, 4.6 km away at 148 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 — 34035/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34035/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34035/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34035/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34163
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34012
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34010
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34035
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
Sanssac-l'Église	43	155 km N	1,080	30.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 3 % · winter 18 % · humidity 57 %
Aveize	69	234 km N	1,110	29.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 10 % · winter 27 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Sardos	82	203 km W	1,120	35.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Vignieu	38	260 km NE	1,024	32.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 39 % · humidity 71 %
Faye-l'Abbesse	79	471 km NW	1,131	34.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 97 % · humidity 71 %
Bellou-en-Houlme	61	641 km NW	1,024	31.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sanssac-l'Église	43	155 km N	1,080	30.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 3 % · winter 18 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Sardos	82	203 km W	1,120	35.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 80 % · humidity 93 %
Aveize	69	234 km N	1,110	29.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 10 % · winter 27 % · humidity 64 %
Vignieu	38	260 km NE	1,024	32.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 39 % · humidity 71 %
Faye-l'Abbesse	79	471 km NW	1,131	34.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 97 % · humidity 71 %
Bellou-en-Houlme	61	641 km NW	1,024	31.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 84 % · 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 La Boissière'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
Labastide-du-Temple	82	202 km W	1,132	33.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Baix	07	147 km NE	1,296	31.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Étienne-de-Fougères	47	261 km W	855	32.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Castelmayran	82	213 km W	1,186	32.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Arcambal	46	192 km NW	1,004	26.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Seyches	47	284 km W	1,063	32.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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