Montpeyroux

Hérault · CC Vallée de l'Hérault · INSEE 34173

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

Partly served 43.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 61 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montpeyroux (INSEE 34173) is in Hérault (34), part of CC Vallée de l'Hérault. Population 1,449 (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/34173-montpeyroux

Vitality score

Vitality score 43.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 61 % of the 11,907 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.39	20	7.77
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.74	5	3.71

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 1 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 × Butcher (boucherie) (MAISON DARCET). ^[4,3]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (AUX PANIERS GARNIS). ^[4,3]

3 × Restaurant (LE TERRASSE DU MIMOSA · LE JULIA · DA NANUCCIO). ^[4,3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE). ^[4]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CATHERINE DULAC, MÉDECIN · SAID AZHARI, MÉDECIN). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (MONTPEYROUX AP). ^[4]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE). ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser (LE SALON DE CECILE). ^[4,3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy. ^[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)	1	MAISON DARCET	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	AUX PANIERS GARNIS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
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	3	LE TERRASSE DU MIMOSA · LE JULIA · DA NANUCCIO	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [4,3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	CATHERINE DULAC, MÉDECIN · SAID AZHARI, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [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	1	MONTPEYROUX AP	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE	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	1	LE SALON DE CECILE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 845 2023: 1,449 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,274 (2012) → 1,449 (2023): 13.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 947 (1990) → 1,449 (2023): 53 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 809, of which 12.9 % second homes and 9.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, GP Bakery — 2.6 km SEPharmacy — 4.0 km E 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 (Lagamas): 2.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Montpeyroux): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Montpeyroux): 0.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Jean-de-Fos): 4 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Montpeyroux): 0.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 58.7▸

Days at or below 0 °C 29.7

Muggy days a summer 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 59 days a year at or above 30 °C and 30 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ST ANDRE DE SANGONIS weather station, 3.5 km away at 86 m; the village itself is at 150 m. ^[11]

The village sits 64 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.7 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ST ANDRE DE SANGONIS, 3.5 km away at 86 m, over 20 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 64 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 631 mm of rain a year, spread over 61 days — about 10.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ST ANDRE DE SANGONIS, 3.5 km away at 86 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34173/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34173/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34173/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34173/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34125
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34173
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34267
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
Puissalicon	34	34 km SW	1,353	41.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Labastide-Beauvoir	31	150 km W	1,254	44.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Rémy-de-Maurienne	73	289 km NE	1,289	34.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 34 % · humidity 57 %
Puimisson	34	37 km SW	1,225	36.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Villenouvelle	31	151 km W	1,487	45.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Sainte-Cécile	85	496 km NW	1,575	48.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 0 % · winter 99 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Puissalicon	34	34 km SW	1,353	41.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Puimisson	34	37 km SW	1,225	36.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Labastide-Beauvoir	31	150 km W	1,254	44.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Villenouvelle	31	151 km W	1,487	45.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Rémy-de-Maurienne	73	289 km NE	1,289	34.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 34 % · humidity 57 %
Sainte-Cécile	85	496 km NW	1,575	48.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 0 % · winter 99 %

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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 Montpeyroux'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
Aspiran	34	15 km S	1,672	48.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Vendémian	34	14 km S	1,149	47.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Verquières	13	115 km E	772	48.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saze	30	98 km E	2,096	50.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Lédenon	30	84 km E	1,685	53.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Paradou	13	103 km E	2,159	43.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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