Capestang

Hérault · CC Sud-Hérault · INSEE 34052

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

Partly served 44.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 33 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Capestang (INSEE 34052) is in Hérault (34), part of CC Sud-Hérault. Population 3,514 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/34052-capestang

Vitality score

Vitality score 44.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 33 % of the 6,258 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	0.34	25	8.55
Social	0.6	20	11.91
Education	0.22	10	2.21
Health	0.31	10	3.07
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	0.71	10	7.1
Housing mix	0.83	5	4.14

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 3 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 of 3

Lodging 1 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]

4 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE MARIE BLACHERE · AU PALAIS DES SAVEURS · LES PATISSIERES · LAKHOITRI ABDERRAZZAK). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (PERIS · ZINEDINE EL IDRISSI ZAHRA). ^[3,4]

2 × Supermarket (LIDL · LUDI). ^[3,4]

14 × Restaurant (RCBSJ · BARM · C CLEAN TISSUS · CHEZ MARGUERITE · CAFE DE LA GRILLE). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE F.MITTERRAND). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE PAUL BERT). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (VERONIQUE BOUDET, MÉDECIN · PHILIPPE BOUDET, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (MEDIATHÈQUE MAX DERRUAU). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (GYMNASE INTERCOMMUNAL). ^[3]

3 × Bank (CAISSE EPARGNE PREVOYANCE LANGUEDOC ROUSSILLON · AGENCE DE CAPESTANG · BANQUE DUPUY DE PARSEVAL PAR BANQUE POPULAIRE DU S). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (LE STUDIO DE VINCE · BABYDOLL). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING MUNICIPAL DE TOUNEL). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Butcher (boucherie), 4 × Restaurant, 1 × Pharmacy, 1 × Hairdresser, 1 × Hotel.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie). ^[3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	4	BOULANGERIE MARIE BLACHERE · AU PALAIS DES SAVEURS · LES PATISSIERES · LAKHOITRI ABDERRAZZAK	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	PERIS · ZINEDINE EL IDRISSI ZAHRA	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Supermarket	2	LIDL · LUDI	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Restaurant	14	RCBSJ · BARM · C CLEAN TISSUS · CHEZ MARGUERITE · CAFE DE LA GRILLE	INSEE BPE 14 / INSEE SIRENE 21 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE F.MITTERRAND	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE PAUL BERT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	VERONIQUE BOUDET, MÉDECIN · PHILIPPE BOUDET, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	MEDIATHÈQUE MAX DERRUAU	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	GYMNASE INTERCOMMUNAL	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	3	CAISSE EPARGNE PREVOYANCE LANGUEDOC ROUSSILLON · AGENCE DE CAPESTANG · BANQUE DUPUY DE PARSEVAL PAR BANQUE POPULAIRE DU S	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Hairdresser	3	LE STUDIO DE VINCE · BABYDOLL	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Campsite	1	CAMPING MUNICIPAL DE TOUNEL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 3,014 2023: 3,514 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 3,111 (2012) → 3,514 (2023): 13 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 2,903 (1990) → 3,514 (2023): 21 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 2,004, of which 8.6 % second homes and 11.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 4.5 km N 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 (Capestang): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

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

GP (Capestang): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Puisserguier): 4.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Capestang): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 53.4▸

Days at or below 0 °C 23.3

Muggy days a summer 9.6

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 53 days a year at or above 30 °C and 23 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the BEZIERS-COURTADE weather station, 9.1 km away at 25 m; the village itself is at 21 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 10 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ST JEAN DE MINERVOIS, 16.3 km away at 258 m, over 18 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 237 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 537 mm of rain a year, spread over 56 days — about 9.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BEZIERS-COURTADE, 9.1 km away at 25 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34052/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34052/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34052/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34052/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34052
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34225
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-Éloy-les-Mines	63	315 km N	3,480	46	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 10 % · winter 0 % · humidity 36 %
Sallèles-d'Aude	11	11 km SW	3,179	42.1	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 96 % · humidity 36 %
Gallardon	28	587 km N	3,530	48.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 5 % · winter 47 % · humidity 36 %
Pleyber-Christ	29	785 km NW	3,166	41.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 93 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Thibéry	34	31 km E	3,132	45.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Peyrehorade	40	336 km W	3,700	47.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 28 % · winter 88 % · humidity 21 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sallèles-d'Aude	11	11 km SW	3,179	42.1	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 96 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Thibéry	34	31 km E	3,132	45.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Éloy-les-Mines	63	315 km N	3,480	46	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 10 % · winter 0 % · humidity 36 %
Peyrehorade	40	336 km W	3,700	47.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 28 % · winter 88 % · humidity 21 %
Gallardon	28	587 km N	3,530	48.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 5 % · winter 47 % · humidity 36 %
Pleyber-Christ	29	785 km NW	3,166	41.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 93 % · humidity 36 %

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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 Capestang'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
Paulhan	34	41 km NE	4,039	52.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Viviers	07	184 km NE	3,633	50.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Mouriès	13	153 km E	3,527	49.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Aramon	30	146 km NE	4,081	51.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Canet	34	47 km NE	3,619	48.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Penta-di-Casinca	2B	531 km E	3,671	63.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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