Lamalou-les-Bains

Hérault · CC Grand Orb Communauté de Communes en Languedoc · INSEE 34126

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

Partly served 56.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 85 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lamalou-les-Bains (INSEE 34126) is in Hérault (34), part of CC Grand Orb Communauté de Communes en Languedoc. Population 2,389 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/34126-lamalou-les-bains

Vitality score

Vitality score 56.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 85 % of the 8,508 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	0.93	20	18.58
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.69	10	6.93
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.59	10	5.89
Housing mix	0	5	0

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 2 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (SOCIETE D'EXPLOITATION DE LA BOULANGERIE CAUMES · BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE CAZALS). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE FAURE CHEZ CRISTEL ET FRED). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Fishmonger. ^[3,4]

10 × Restaurant (BELLEVILLE · LA BONNE FRANQUETTE · LES CIGOGNES DU BITOULET · LES MARRONNIERS · IL VESUVIO). ^[3,4]

4 × Café / bar (SALLE DES FETES · MARYJOHN · LE DIAMANTINA · LA TERRAZA). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PAUL VALERY). ^[3]

10 × GP (médecin généraliste) (GENEVIEVE CARRATIER, MÉDECIN · SERGE PARIENTE, MÉDECIN · ABDERRAHMANE BOUZIDI, MÉDECIN · ALI REFFAS, MÉDECIN · ANNE-LAURE DUPONT, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

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

1 × Cinema (L'IMPERIAL). ^[3]

3 × Bank (CAISSE EPARGNE PREVOYANCE LANGUEDOC ROUSSILLON · CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL DU LANGUEDOC · CREDIT LYONNAIS). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (AU DELA DU MIROIR). ^[3,4]

3 × Hotel (HOTEL BELLEVILLE · HOTEL DES THERMES · HOTEL DE MA TANTE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 5 × Restaurant, 1 × Pharmacy, 1 × Hairdresser, 2 × Hotel.

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Library. ^[4,3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	SOCIETE D'EXPLOITATION DE LA BOULANGERIE CAUMES · BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE CAZALS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BOUCHERIE FAURE CHEZ CRISTEL ET FRED	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	GIGOT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Restaurant	10	BELLEVILLE · LA BONNE FRANQUETTE · LES CIGOGNES DU BITOULET · LES MARRONNIERS · IL VESUVIO	INSEE BPE 10 / INSEE SIRENE 14 [3,4]
Café / bar	4	SALLE DES FETES · MARYJOHN · LE DIAMANTINA · LA TERRAZA	INSEE SIRENE 4 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PAUL VALERY	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	10	GENEVIEVE CARRATIER, MÉDECIN · SERGE PARIENTE, MÉDECIN · ABDERRAHMANE BOUZIDI, MÉDECIN · ALI REFFAS, MÉDECIN · ANNE-LAURE DUPONT, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 10 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE ROUANET	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	1	L'IMPERIAL	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	3	CAISSE EPARGNE PREVOYANCE LANGUEDOC ROUSSILLON · CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL DU LANGUEDOC · CREDIT LYONNAIS	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Hairdresser	3	AU DELA DU MIROIR	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	3	HOTEL BELLEVILLE · HOTEL DES THERMES · HOTEL DE MA TANTE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 2,029 peak 2012: 2,663 2023: 2,389 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,663 (2012) → 2,389 (2023): -10.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 2,194 (1990) → 2,389 (2023): 8.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 2,428, of which 53.5 % second homes and 1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, GP, Pharmacy Primary school — 0.6 km N 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 (Lamalou-les-Bains): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lamalou-les-Bains): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Lamalou-les-Bains): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Lamalou-les-Bains): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Lamalou-les-Bains): 0.6 km to the north (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. ^[9]

Measured at the LES AIRES weather station, 2.4 km away at 190 m; the village itself is at 190 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at BEDARIEUX, 7.4 km away at 373 m, over 29 summers. ^[9]

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. ^[9]

An average of 1,081 mm of rain a year, spread over 78 days — about 13.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at LES AIRES, 2.4 km away at 190 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34126/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34126/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34126/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34126/logement/2023
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
L'Île-Rousse	2B	487 km E	3,231	64.3	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 43 % · humidity 0 %
Barcelonnette	04	299 km E	2,518	64.3	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
Bagnoles de l'Orne Normandie	61	614 km NW	2,699	62.9	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 5 % · winter 70 %
Venzolasca	2B	532 km E	1,874	56.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 50 % · humidity 14 %
Le Plan-de-la-Tour	83	281 km E	3,125	47.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 50 % · humidity 14 %
San-Nicolao	2B	541 km E	2,062	70.7	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 55 % · humidity 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Le Plan-de-la-Tour	83	281 km E	3,125	47.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 50 % · humidity 14 %
Barcelonnette	04	299 km E	2,518	64.3	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
L'Île-Rousse	2B	487 km E	3,231	64.3	Served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 43 % · humidity 0 %
Venzolasca	2B	532 km E	1,874	56.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 50 % · humidity 14 %
San-Nicolao	2B	541 km E	2,062	70.7	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 55 % · humidity 0 %
Bagnoles de l'Orne Normandie	61	614 km NW	2,699	62.9	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 5 % · winter 70 %

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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 Lamalou-les-Bains'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
Montboucher-sur-Jabron	26	175 km NE	2,592	55.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Cruas	07	179 km NE	2,898	57.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Le Bousquet-d'Orb	34	13 km NE	1,599	58	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Septfonds	82	134 km NW	2,261	55.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Lagrave	81	94 km W	2,305	62.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Roquecourbe	81	64 km W	2,172	54.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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