Castanet-le-Haut

Hérault · CC du Haut-Languedoc · INSEE 34055

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

Few services 28.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 82 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Castanet-le-Haut (INSEE 34055) is in Hérault (34), part of CC du Haut-Languedoc. Population 224 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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 28.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 82 % of the 16,663 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.14	5	0.7

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 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”.

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

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (CHARCUTERIE ALLIES). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE PABO). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE CASTANET-LE-HAUT). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), 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)	1	CHARCUTERIE ALLIES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE PABO	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE CASTANET-LE-HAUT	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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 222 2023: 224 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 196 (2012) → 224 (2023): 14.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 148 (1990) → 224 (2023): 51.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 237, of which 43 % second homes and 11.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 1.4 km NFood shop — 4.5 km WBakery — 5.7 km EGP — 5.8 km EPharmacy — 9.6 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 (Saint-Gervais-sur-Mare): 5.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Castanet-le-Haut): 4.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Gervais-sur-Mare): 5.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Murat-sur-Vèbre): 9.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Castanet-le-Haut): 1.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 28.5

Days at or below 0 °C 28.1

Muggy days a summer 2.5

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 29 days a year at or above 30 °C and 28 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CASTANET LE HAUT_SAPC weather station, 0.3 km away at 424 m; the village itself is at 462 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at MURAT SUR VEBRE, 12.5 km away at 1,022 m, over 22 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 560 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 1,595 mm of rain a year, spread over 108 days — about 14.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CASTANET LE HAUT_SAPC, 0.3 km away at 424 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34055/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34055/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34055/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34055/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34260
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34055
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81192
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-Martin-de-Fugères	43	158 km NE	228	25.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Martin-de-Lansuscle	48	87 km NE	191	22	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Clumanc	04	276 km E	222	20.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Saxi-Bourdon	58	379 km N	267	24.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 73 % · humidity 86 %
Palisse	19	204 km N	224	16.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 36 % · humidity 79 %
Blismes	58	391 km N	185	22.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 47 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Martin-de-Lansuscle	48	87 km NE	191	22	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-de-Fugères	43	158 km NE	228	25.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Palisse	19	204 km N	224	16.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 36 % · humidity 79 %
Clumanc	04	276 km E	222	20.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Saxi-Bourdon	58	379 km N	267	24.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 73 % · humidity 86 %
Blismes	58	391 km N	185	22.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 47 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Castanet-le-Haut'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
Saint-Martin-de-Lansuscle	48	87 km NE	191	22	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Aujac	30	113 km NE	147	16.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Julien	34	12 km S	228	21.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Ayssènes	12	47 km N	225	5.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Tréjouls	82	154 km NW	214	14.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Naussannes	24	216 km NW	232	19.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

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