Pailhès

Hérault · CC Les Avant-Monts · INSEE 34191

A school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop.

Few services 31.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 56 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Pailhès (INSEE 34191) is in Hérault (34), part of CC Les Avant-Monts. Population 622 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). ^[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 31.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 56 % of the 16,876 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	25	0
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.98	10	9.77
Housing mix	0.87	5	4.35

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, 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)	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 258 2023: 622 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 470 (2012) → 622 (2023): 32.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 421 (1990) → 622 (2023): 47.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 355, of which 6.5 % second homes and 12.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 1.8 km SWFood shop — 1.9 km SWGP — 2.1 km WPharmacy — 2.2 km SW 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 (Thézan-lès-Béziers): 1.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Thézan-lès-Béziers): 1.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Thézan-lès-Béziers): 2.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Thézan-lès-Béziers): 2.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Pailhès): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 45.4▸

Days at or below 0 °C 18.4▸

Muggy days a summer 7.7

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 45 days a year at or above 30 °C and 18 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the MURVIEL LES BEZIERS weather station, 6.1 km away at 140 m; the village itself is at 129 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 8 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at MURVIEL LES BEZIERS, 6.1 km away at 140 m, over 29 summers. ^[10]

An average of 629 mm of rain a year, spread over 62 days — about 10.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at MURVIEL LES BEZIERS, 6.1 km away at 140 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34191/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34191/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34191/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34191/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34310
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34191
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
Vertrieu	38	322 km NE	608	33.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 46 %
Paulhac	43	208 km N	590	19.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 19 % · humidity 43 %
Autouillet	78	612 km N	665	24.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 47 % · humidity 57 %
Plaine-de-Walsch	57	658 km NE	601	21.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 14 % · humidity 50 %
Tully	80	751 km N	549	27	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 77 % · humidity 50 %
Gavrus	14	693 km NW	635	39.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 86 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Paulhac	43	208 km N	590	19.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 19 % · humidity 43 %
Vertrieu	38	322 km NE	608	33.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 46 %
Autouillet	78	612 km N	665	24.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 47 % · humidity 57 %
Plaine-de-Walsch	57	658 km NE	601	21.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 14 % · humidity 50 %
Gavrus	14	693 km NW	635	39.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 86 % · humidity 50 %
Tully	80	751 km N	549	27	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 77 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Pailhès'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
Coulobres	34	7.7 km E	367	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Aumes	34	23 km E	498	27.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Nizas	34	20 km NE	662	46.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Espondeilhan	34	6.1 km E	1,268	38.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Campagne-sur-Aude	11	98 km SW	618	56.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Auradou	47	215 km NW	405	21	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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