Jonquières

Hérault · CC Vallée de l'Hérault · INSEE 34122

A school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink.

Few services 25.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 40 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Jonquières (INSEE 34122) is in Hérault (34), part of CC Vallée de l'Hérault. Population 590 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[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/34122-jonquieres

Vitality score

Vitality score 25.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 40 % of the 17,186 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	25	0
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	0.79	5	3.95

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LES PETITS JONCS). ^[4]

1 × Library. ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LES PETITS JONCS	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	1		INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 316 2023: 590 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 393 (2012) → 590 (2023): 50.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 299 (1990) → 590 (2023): 97.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 295, of which 10.5 % second homes and 6.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 1.9 km SWBakery — 2.0 km SWGP — 3.4 km NEPharmacy — 5.7 km SW 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-Félix-de-Lodez): 2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Félix-de-Lodez): 1.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Montpeyroux): 3.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Clermont-l'Hérault): 5.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Jonquières): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 63.1▸

Days at or below 0 °C 27.3

Muggy days a summer 6.8

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 63 days a year at or above 30 °C and 27 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ST ANDRE DE SANGONIS weather station, 2.9 km away at 86 m; the village itself is at 113 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ST ANDRE DE SANGONIS, 2.9 km away at 86 m, over 20 summers. ^[12]

An average of 631 mm of rain a year, spread over 61 days — about 10.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ST ANDRE DE SANGONIS, 2.9 km away at 86 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34122/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34122/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34122/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34122/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34254
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34173
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34079
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34122
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
Boussac	12	111 km NW	611	23.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 70 % · humidity 50 %
Sallèdes	63	220 km N	560	24.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 54 % · humidity 50 %
Chalautre-la-Grande	77	541 km N	644	21.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 88 % · humidity 71 %
Pihen-lès-Guînes	62	810 km N	545	23.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 70 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Aubin	10	534 km N	580	22	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 69 % · humidity 57 %
Siccieu-Saint-Julien-et-Carisieu	38	271 km NE	609	26	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 10 % · winter 41 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Boussac	12	111 km NW	611	23.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 70 % · humidity 50 %
Sallèdes	63	220 km N	560	24.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 54 % · humidity 50 %
Siccieu-Saint-Julien-et-Carisieu	38	271 km NE	609	26	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 10 % · winter 41 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Aubin	10	534 km N	580	22	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 69 % · humidity 57 %
Chalautre-la-Grande	77	541 km N	644	21.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 88 % · humidity 71 %
Pihen-lès-Guînes	62	810 km N	545	23.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 70 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Jonquières'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
Boissières	30	62 km E	588	25.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Étienne-de-l'Olm	30	71 km NE	379	26	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Martignargues	30	70 km NE	439	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Césaire-de-Gauzignan	30	71 km NE	391	31.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Guiraud	34	1.7 km W	267	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Cesseras	34	73 km SW	435	39.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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