Fontès

Hérault · CC du Clermontais · INSEE 34103

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

Few services 38.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 57 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Fontès (INSEE 34103) is in Hérault (34), part of CC du Clermontais. Population 1,060 (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/34103-fontes

Vitality score

Vitality score 38.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 57 % of the 13,992 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	0.39	20	7.87
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.39	10	3.93
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.83	10	8.3
Housing mix	0.73	5	3.63

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LES PETITS PLATS DE FATY). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (CAFE DE L'UNION). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE ANDRE ESPITALIER). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (MOHAMMED ADIM, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE DE FONTÈS). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (MAG HAIR ZEN · AU D COIFF). ^[3,4]

2 × Campsite (CAMPING LES CLAIRETTES · CAMPING L'EVASION). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Pharmacy.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	LES PETITS PLATS DE FATY	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	CAFE DE L'UNION	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE ANDRE ESPITALIER	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	MOHAMMED ADIM, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	FONTES AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE DE FONTÈS	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	3	MAG HAIR ZEN · AU D COIFF	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	2	CAMPING LES CLAIRETTES · CAMPING L'EVASION	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 802 2023: 1,060 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 941 (2012) → 1,060 (2023): 12.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 797 (1990) → 1,060 (2023): 33 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 641, of which 13.7 % second homes and 11.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, GP Primary school — 0.6 km NEBakery — 3.8 km SPharmacy — 3.8 km S 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 (Caux): 3.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Fontès): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Fontès): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Caux): 3.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Fontès): 0.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 44.7▸

Days at or below 0 °C 27.8

Muggy days a summer 6.1

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 28 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ROUJAN-INRAE weather station, 7.1 km away at 73 m; the village itself is at 93 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ROUJAN-INRAE, 7.1 km away at 73 m, over 15 summers. ^[10]

An average of 708 mm of rain a year, spread over 67 days — about 10.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at VAILHAN, 6.5 km away at 122 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 — 34103/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34103/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34103/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34103/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34063
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34103
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
Peyriac-Minervois	11	71 km SW	1,123	39.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 71 %
Polminhac	15	170 km N	1,197	41.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 15 % · humidity 57 %
Azé	71	339 km N	1,103	46.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 70 % · humidity 71 %
Pontrieux	22	763 km NW	1,002	54.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 80 % · humidity 64 %
Aguessac	12	72 km N	929	57.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 96 % · humidity 64 %
Signy-le-Petit	08	711 km N	1,213	46.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 3 % · winter 72 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Peyriac-Minervois	11	71 km SW	1,123	39.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 71 %
Aguessac	12	72 km N	929	57.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 96 % · humidity 64 %
Polminhac	15	170 km N	1,197	41.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 15 % · humidity 57 %
Azé	71	339 km N	1,103	46.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 70 % · humidity 71 %
Signy-le-Petit	08	711 km N	1,213	46.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 3 % · winter 72 % · humidity 64 %
Pontrieux	22	763 km NW	1,002	54.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 80 % · 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 Fontès'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
Alignan-du-Vent	34	8.3 km S	1,796	51.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Laurens	34	15 km W	1,815	56.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Cléon-d'Andran	26	172 km NE	1,004	55	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Puissalicon	34	15 km SW	1,353	41.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Abeilhan	34	12 km SW	1,850	40.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Puimisson	34	18 km SW	1,225	36.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %

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