Octon

Hérault · CC du Clermontais · INSEE 34186

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

Partly served 45.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 90 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Octon (INSEE 34186) is in Hérault (34), part of CC du Clermontais. Population 521 (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/34186-octon

Vitality score

Vitality score 45.5/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 90 % of the 17,689 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	0.48	20	9.5
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.99	10	9.89
Housing mix	0.59	5	2.93

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 0 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 0 of 3

Lodging 2 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 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (L'EPICERIE DU LAC). ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (CAFE DE LA PLACE · LE RELAIS NAUTIQUE · L'OCTOBRE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (NOUARI DRISSI, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

1 × Swimming pool (BAIGNADE SURVEILLEE LAC DU SALAGOU). ^[3]

2 × Hotel (HOTEL RESTAURANT LA PALOMBE · HOTEL LA CALADE). ^[3,4]

2 × Campsite (CAMPING LE VILLAGE DU BOSC · AIRE NATURELLE LES ARCADES). ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	L'EPICERIE DU LAC	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	3	CAFE DE LA PLACE · LE RELAIS NAUTIQUE · L'OCTOBRE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [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	NOUARI DRISSI, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	OCTON AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	1	BAIGNADE SURVEILLEE LAC DU SALAGOU	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	2	HOTEL RESTAURANT LA PALOMBE · HOTEL LA CALADE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Campsite	2	CAMPING LE VILLAGE DU BOSC · AIRE NATURELLE LES ARCADES	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 253 peak 2017: 527 2023: 521 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 459 (2012) → 521 (2023): 13.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 350 (1990) → 521 (2023): 48.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 352, of which 20.7 % second homes and 9.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 1.0 km EBakery — 5.5 km NEPharmacy — 7.9 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 (Le Bosc): 5.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Octon): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Octon): 1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Lodève): 7.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Octon): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 42.1

Days at or below 0 °C 16.4▸

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 42 days a year at or above 30 °C and 16 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the OCTON weather station, 0.2 km away at 184 m; the village itself is at 193 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at SOUMONT, 6.7 km away at 252 m, over 28 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 59 m above 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 983 mm of rain a year, spread over 77 days — about 12.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at OCTON, 0.2 km away at 184 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 — 34186/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34186/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34186/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34186/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34036
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34186
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34142
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
Albaret-Sainte-Marie	48	136 km N	559	42.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 15 % · winter 0 %
Calviac-en-Périgord	24	206 km NW	546	37.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 57 % · humidity 100 %
Le Cloître-Pleyben	29	755 km NW	502	32.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 89 % · humidity 64 %
Valeyrac	33	385 km NW	552	37.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Flassan	84	163 km E	453	36.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 51 % · humidity 57 %
Manzac-sur-Vern	24	268 km NW	535	40	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Albaret-Sainte-Marie	48	136 km N	559	42.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 15 % · winter 0 %
Flassan	84	163 km E	453	36.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 51 % · humidity 57 %
Calviac-en-Périgord	24	206 km NW	546	37.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 57 % · humidity 100 %
Manzac-sur-Vern	24	268 km NW	535	40	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Valeyrac	33	385 km NW	552	37.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Le Cloître-Pleyben	29	755 km NW	502	32.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 89 % · 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 Octon'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
Lamontjoie	47	228 km W	553	47.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Artigat	09	161 km W	574	42.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes	66	120 km SW	586	55.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Causses-et-Veyran	34	27 km SW	613	30.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
La Livinière	34	66 km SW	530	46.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Salasc	34	4.1 km S	357	30.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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