Hérépian

Hérault · CC Grand Orb Communauté de Communes en Languedoc · INSEE 34119

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

Partly served 52.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 81 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Hérépian (INSEE 34119) is in Hérault (34), part of CC Grand Orb Communauté de Communes en Languedoc. Population 1,594 (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/34119-herepian

Vitality score

Vitality score 52.3/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 81 % of the 11,185 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	0.47	25	11.83
Social	0.46	20	9.18
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.78	10	7.84
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.59

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 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) (BOULANGERIE CARLIER). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (CABRIE). ^[3]

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

5 × Restaurant (L'OCRE ROUGE · PIZZERIA SERGIO · LES PIZZAS DE CHRIS · TRALLERO MARIE-JOSE · L'ARTICHAUD). ^[3,4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JEAN-LUC CASTAN, MÉDECIN · NADINE FLAUTO, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DES CERISIERS). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE YVETTE TORAL). ^[3]

6 × Hairdresser (GWLADYS COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 3 × Restaurant, 1 × Pharmacy.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	BOULANGERIE CARLIER	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	CABRIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	PROXI	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	5	L'OCRE ROUGE · PIZZERIA SERGIO · LES PIZZAS DE CHRIS · TRALLERO MARIE-JOSE · L'ARTICHAUD	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 9 [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)	2	JEAN-LUC CASTAN, MÉDECIN · NADINE FLAUTO, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DES CERISIERS	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	BIBLIOTHÈQUE YVETTE TORAL	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	6	GWLADYS COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 6 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [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: 1,135 2023: 1,594 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,492 (2012) → 1,594 (2023): 6.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,241 (1990) → 1,594 (2023): 28.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 995, of which 4.1 % second homes and 15.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 2.7 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 (Hérépian): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

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

GP (Hérépian): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Lamalou-les-Bains): 2.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Hérépian): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 46.3▸

Days at or below 0 °C 41.6

Muggy days a summer 4.7

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 46 days a year at or above 30 °C and 42 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LES AIRES weather station, 1.2 km away at 190 m; the village itself is at 190 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at BEDARIEUX, 5.7 km away at 373 m, over 29 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 183 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 1,081 mm of rain a year, spread over 78 days — about 13.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LES AIRES, 1.2 km away at 190 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 — 34119/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34119/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34119/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34119/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34119
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34126
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
Val-de-Virieu	38	282 km NE	1,528	47.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 38 % · humidity 79 %
Menetou-Salon	18	408 km N	1,626	47.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 84 % · humidity 79 %
Villé	67	619 km NE	1,799	57.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Aspiran	34	27 km E	1,672	48.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Champagné-les-Marais	85	455 km NW	1,824	52.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 31 % · winter 82 %
Aubers	59	779 km N	1,749	46.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 3 % · winter 91 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Aspiran	34	27 km E	1,672	48.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Val-de-Virieu	38	282 km NE	1,528	47.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 38 % · humidity 79 %
Menetou-Salon	18	408 km N	1,626	47.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 84 % · humidity 79 %
Champagné-les-Marais	85	455 km NW	1,824	52.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 31 % · winter 82 %
Villé	67	619 km NE	1,799	57.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Aubers	59	779 km N	1,749	46.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 3 % · winter 91 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Hérépian'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
Briatexte	81	99 km W	1,938	53.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Bœuf	42	237 km NE	1,712	54.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Roquecourbe	81	67 km W	2,172	54.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Julien-en-Saint-Alban	07	181 km NE	1,465	50.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Meauzac	82	160 km W	1,504	40.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Lagrave	81	96 km W	2,305	62.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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