Gabian

Hérault · CC Les Avant-Monts · INSEE 34109

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

Partly served 53.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 91 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Gabian (INSEE 34109) is in Hérault (34), part of CC Les Avant-Monts. Population 886 (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/34109-gabian

Vitality score

Vitality score 53.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 91 % of the 15,047 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0.48	20	9.5
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.86	10	8.61
Housing mix	0.82	5	4.08

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 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 × Bakery (boulangerie) (MAISON LAUR). ^[3,4]

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

3 × Restaurant (FOODBUS · LA TAVERNAT · LA CHICHINETTE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Pharmacy (SELARL LES FONTAINES). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (MEDIATHEQUE MUNICIPALE <ROBERT DESNOS). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	MAISON LAUR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	3	FOODBUS · LA TAVERNAT · LA CHICHINETTE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	1	SELARL LES FONTAINES	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	GABIAN AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MEDIATHEQUE MUNICIPALE <ROBERT DESNOS	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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 780 2023: 886 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 827 (2012) → 886 (2023): 7.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 651 (1990) → 886 (2023): 36.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 618, of which 9.2 % second homes and 21.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 3.6 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 (Gabian): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

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

GP (Pouzolles): 3.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Gabian): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Gabian): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

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, 4.5 km away at 73 m; the village itself is at 103 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at ROUJAN-INRAE, 4.5 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, 4.4 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 — 34109/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34109/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34109/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34109/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34109
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34214
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
Autry-le-Châtel	45	458 km N	845	40.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 38 % · winter 43 %
Saint-Alban-les-Eaux	42	282 km N	912	46.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 61 % · humidity 64 %
Autheuil-Authouillet	27	640 km N	941	44.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 13 % · winter 89 % · humidity 64 %
Flogny-la-Chapelle	89	496 km N	935	48.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 64 % · humidity 71 %
Belleville-sur-Loire	18	446 km N	989	45	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 57 % · humidity 71 %
Martigny-les-Bains	88	548 km N	807	37.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 24 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Alban-les-Eaux	42	282 km N	912	46.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 61 % · humidity 64 %
Belleville-sur-Loire	18	446 km N	989	45	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 57 % · humidity 71 %
Autry-le-Châtel	45	458 km N	845	40.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 38 % · winter 43 %
Flogny-la-Chapelle	89	496 km N	935	48.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 64 % · humidity 71 %
Martigny-les-Bains	88	548 km N	807	37.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 24 % · humidity 64 %
Autheuil-Authouillet	27	640 km N	941	44.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 13 % · winter 89 % · 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 Gabian'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
Puy-Saint-Martin	26	184 km NE	827	49.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Auvillar	82	200 km W	895	62.4	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Péret	34	12 km NE	1,137	34.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Bœuf	42	239 km NE	1,712	54.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Creissan	34	26 km SW	1,436	31.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Le Fossat	09	156 km W	1,071	50.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %

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