La Livinière

Hérault · CC du Minervois au Caroux · INSEE 34141

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

Partly served 46.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 91 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Livinière (INSEE 34141) is in Hérault (34), part of CC du Minervois au Caroux. Population 530 (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/34141-la-liviniere

Vitality score

Vitality score 46.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 91 % of the 17,639 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.63	10	6.32
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.55	10	5.47
Housing mix	0.26	5	1.28

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 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]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (O BONS PAINS). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Restaurant (PLIEU MINERVOIS TRAITEUR). ^[3,4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JEAN-FRANCOIS POUX, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

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

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hairdresser.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	O BONS PAINS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	AU BON CABAS	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	1	PLIEU MINERVOIS TRAITEUR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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)	1	JEAN-FRANCOIS POUX, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE OCCITANE	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	LA LIVINIERE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	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: 682 2023: 530 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 550 (2012) → 530 (2023): -3.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 506 (1990) → 530 (2023): 4.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 473, of which 37.2 % second homes and 8.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 0.5 km NW 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 (La Livinière): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Livinière): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (La Livinière): 0.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (La Livinière): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (La Livinière): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 45.4▸

Days at or below 0 °C 21.7

Muggy days a summer 7.6

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 22 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the LA LIVINIERE weather station, 0.1 km away at 131 m; the village itself is at 145 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 8 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at ST JEAN DE MINERVOIS, 19.4 km away at 258 m, over 18 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 113 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 638 mm of rain a year, spread over 70 days — about 9.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at LA LIVINIERE, 0.1 km away at 131 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 — 34141/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34141/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34141/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34141/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34141
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
Le Collet-de-Dèze	48	146 km NE	684	52.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 64 %
Thiézac	15	189 km N	590	58.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 34 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Germain-l'Herm	63	249 km N	482	43.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 43 %
Châteauneuf-Val-de-Bargis	58	444 km N	499	55.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 47 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse	11	26 km S	753	51.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %
Sarrancolin	65	187 km W	546	55.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 4 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse	11	26 km S	753	51.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %
Le Collet-de-Dèze	48	146 km NE	684	52.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 64 %
Sarrancolin	65	187 km W	546	55.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 4 % · humidity 43 %
Thiézac	15	189 km N	590	58.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 34 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Germain-l'Herm	63	249 km N	482	43.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 43 %
Châteauneuf-Val-de-Bargis	58	444 km N	499	55.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 47 % · 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 La Livinière'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
Ménerbes	84	215 km E	962	58.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Olargues	34	35 km NE	488	68.9	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Octon	34	66 km NE	521	45.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Siran	34	1.9 km E	754	51.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Trausse	11	6.0 km W	614	39.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Catus	46	173 km NW	921	71.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

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