Maureilhan

Hérault · CC la Domitienne · INSEE 34155

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

Partly served 53.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 77 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Maureilhan (INSEE 34155) is in Hérault (34), part of CC la Domitienne. Population 2,495 (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.

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Vitality score

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

Confidence: high.

Better served than 77 % of the 8,267 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.69	20	13.89
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.51	5	2.56
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.64

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 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) (SHANNON LABORATOIRE DU GOUT · LES CO'PAINS D'ABORD). ^[3,4]

11 × Restaurant (FANNY PIZZA · RESTAURANT LES OLIVIERS · HAPPY PAELLA 34 · PIZZA JIM). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (PAUL-ETIENNE GUIGUES, MÉDECIN · ALEX BISTUER, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

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

2 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE MAUREILHAN · COMMUNAUTÉ DE COMMUNES LA DOMITIENNE). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (L'ATELIER DE LILLIE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	SHANNON LABORATOIRE DU GOUT · LES CO'PAINS D'ABORD	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	11	FANNY PIZZA · RESTAURANT LES OLIVIERS · HAPPY PAELLA 34 · PIZZA JIM	INSEE BPE 11 / INSEE SIRENE 10 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	PAUL-ETIENNE GUIGUES, MÉDECIN · ALEX BISTUER, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DAMOUR	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 POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	2	MÉDIATHÈQUE MAUREILHAN · COMMUNAUTÉ DE COMMUNES LA DOMITIENNE	INSEE BPE 2 [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	3	L'ATELIER DE LILLIE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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: 1,172 2023: 2,495 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,963 (2012) → 2,495 (2023): 27.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,412 (1990) → 2,495 (2023): 76.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,220, of which 3.6 % second homes and 9.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 2.8 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 (Maureilhan): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Montady): 2.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Maureilhan): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Maureilhan): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Maureilhan): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 53.4▸

Days at or below 0 °C 23.3

Muggy days a summer 8.7

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 53 days a year at or above 30 °C and 23 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the BEZIERS-COURTADE weather station, 3.8 km away at 25 m; the village itself is at 58 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at MURVIEL LES BEZIERS, 13.3 km away at 140 m, over 29 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 82 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 537 mm of rain a year, spread over 56 days — about 9.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BEZIERS-COURTADE, 3.8 km away at 25 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

What property sold for

164 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 225,000 € — 2,261 € per m² of built surface. ^[11]

9 flats sold over the same window, at a median of 231,500 € — 1,372 € per m². ^[11]

The median across Hérault is 2,750 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[11]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34155/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34155/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34155/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34155/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34155
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34161
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Chirens	38	300 km NE	2,546	50.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 59 % · humidity 43 %
Tucquegnieux	54	695 km N	2,441	36.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 61 % · humidity 43 %
Valleroy	54	686 km N	2,375	40.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 10 % · winter 41 % · humidity 43 %
Belloy-en-France	95	640 km N	2,250	44.5	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
Scorbé-Clairvaux	86	439 km NW	2,174	44.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 5 % · winter 86 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Geniès-des-Mourgues	34	83 km NE	2,148	51	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 74 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Geniès-des-Mourgues	34	83 km NE	2,148	51	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 74 % · humidity 64 %
Chirens	38	300 km NE	2,546	50.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 59 % · humidity 43 %
Scorbé-Clairvaux	86	439 km NW	2,174	44.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 5 % · winter 86 % · humidity 64 %
Belloy-en-France	95	640 km N	2,250	44.5	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
Valleroy	54	686 km N	2,375	40.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 10 % · winter 41 % · humidity 43 %
Tucquegnieux	54	695 km N	2,441	36.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 61 % · humidity 43 %

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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 Maureilhan'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
Saint-Pargoire	34	37 km NE	2,501	68.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Le Pouget	34	42 km NE	2,122	59.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Mouriès	13	146 km E	3,527	49.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Canet	34	40 km NE	3,619	48.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Paulet-de-Caisson	30	155 km NE	1,887	53.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Capestang	34	7.1 km SW	3,514	44.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %

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