Le Bousquet-d'Orb

Hérault · CC Grand Orb Communauté de Communes en Languedoc · INSEE 34038

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

Partly served 58/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 91 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Bousquet-d'Orb (INSEE 34038) is in Hérault (34), part of CC Grand Orb Communauté de Communes en Languedoc. Population 1,599 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 58/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Grocery (épicerie / supérette)).

Better served than 91 % of the 11,161 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	0.55	25	13.81
Social	0.78	20	15.5
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.59	10	5.85
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.44	10	4.39
Housing mix	0.77	5	3.84

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE FOURNIL DE JEROME). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE FEDI). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (SPAR · DISPROPLUS). ^[3,4]

5 × Restaurant (HC PIZZA · LES MURIERS D'AVENE · LA MARQUISE). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (CAFE DU NORD). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DENIS BLANQUET). ^[3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (PIERRE PAUCHET, MÉDECIN · CHLOE STENGEL, MÉDECIN · LAURA GRESLOU BIERBACH, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DES MONTS D'ORB). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MICHEL GALABRU). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE DE SPORTS). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (SALON CLIN D'OEIL · REJANE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant, 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Supermarket. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	LE FOURNIL DE JEROME	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BOUCHERIE FEDI	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	SPAR · DISPROPLUS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [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	5	HC PIZZA · LES MURIERS D'AVENE · LA MARQUISE	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 10 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	CAFE DU NORD	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DENIS BLANQUET	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	PIERRE PAUCHET, MÉDECIN · CHLOE STENGEL, MÉDECIN · LAURA GRESLOU BIERBACH, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DES MONTS D'ORB	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	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE MICHEL GALABRU	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	SALLE DE SPORTS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	2	SALON CLIN D'OEIL · REJANE 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 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: 2,270 2023: 1,599 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,583 (2012) → 1,599 (2023): 1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,702 (1990) → 1,599 (2023): -6.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,139, of which 11.6 % second homes and 15.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 0.6 km SEPharmacy — 0.6 km SE 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 (Le Bousquet-d'Orb): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Le Bousquet-d'Orb): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Le Bousquet-d'Orb): 0.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Le Bousquet-d'Orb): 0.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Le Bousquet-d'Orb): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 40.8

Days at or below 0 °C 37.5

Muggy days a summer 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 41 days a year at or above 30 °C and 38 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the LUNAS weather station, 0.5 km away at 249 m; the village itself is at 264 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at BEDARIEUX, 6.3 km away at 373 m, over 29 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 109 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 1,133 mm of rain a year, spread over 90 days — about 12.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at LUNAS, 0.5 km away at 249 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Grocery (épicerie / supérette)

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34038/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34038/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34038/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34038/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34038
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
Oucques La Nouvelle	41	481 km N	1,638	54.1	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 85 % · humidity 79 %
Void-Vacon	55	586 km N	1,599	53.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 51 % · humidity 86 %
Gurgy	89	465 km N	1,723	50.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Soucy	89	507 km N	1,536	45.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Thoissey	01	304 km NE	1,626	58	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 99 %
Guîtres	33	306 km NW	1,631	54.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 76 % · humidity 21 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Thoissey	01	304 km NE	1,626	58	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 99 %
Guîtres	33	306 km NW	1,631	54.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 76 % · humidity 21 %
Gurgy	89	465 km N	1,723	50.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Oucques La Nouvelle	41	481 km N	1,638	54.1	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 85 % · humidity 79 %
Soucy	89	507 km N	1,536	45.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Void-Vacon	55	586 km N	1,599	53.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 51 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Le Bousquet-d'Orb'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
Aureille	13	143 km E	1,533	43.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Vinça	66	128 km SW	2,260	51.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Alignan-du-Vent	34	29 km SE	1,796	51.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Septfonds	82	135 km NW	2,261	55.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Cruas	07	167 km NE	2,898	57.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Hérépian	34	12 km S	1,594	52.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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