Pinet

Hérault · CA Hérault-Méditerranée · INSEE 34203

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

Partly served 48.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 68 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Pinet (INSEE 34203) is in Hérault (34), part of CA Hérault-Méditerranée. Population 2,049 (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/34203-pinet

Vitality score

Vitality score 48.9/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 68 % of the 9,455 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	0.34	25	8.55
Social	0.51	20	10.26
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	3.68

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 1 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) (LA MIE D'OR). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (MON PETIT MARCHE). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LE PALAISIA D'OCCITANIE). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (L'EXTASIA). ^[4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (VINCENT BERTHEZ, MÉDECIN · AMELIE HO TRI, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE DE PINET PINET). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (L'ATELIER DE LAURE · ADDA). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING TERRE DE SOLEIL). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 3 × Restaurant.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	LA MIE D'OR	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	MON PETIT MARCHE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	2	LE PALAISIA D'OCCITANIE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	L'EXTASIA	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE VIA DOMITIA	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	VINCENT BERTHEZ, MÉDECIN · AMELIE HO TRI, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [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	PINET AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE DE PINET PINET	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	3	L'ATELIER DE LAURE · ADDA	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING TERRE DE SOLEIL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 814 2023: 2,049 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,418 (2012) → 2,049 (2023): 44.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 904 (1990) → 2,049 (2023): 126.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,048, of which 13.2 % second homes and 6.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 1.7 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 (Pinet): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Pinet): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Pinet): 0.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Pomérols): 1.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Pinet): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 43.4

Days at or below 0 °C 23.1

Muggy days a summer 10.1▸

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 43 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 PEZENAS-TOURBES weather station, 9.6 km away at 40 m; the village itself is at 24 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at PEZENAS-TOURBES, 9.6 km away at 40 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 557 mm of rain a year, spread over 60 days — about 9.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at FLORENSAC, 4 km away at 20 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 — 34203/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34203/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34203/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34203/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34203
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34207
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
Bizanet	11	58 km SW	1,730	49.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 78 % · humidity 43 %
La Bastide-des-Jourdans	84	176 km E	1,760	45.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 66 % · humidity 29 %
Puyloubier	13	175 km E	1,768	41.3	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 84 % · humidity 36 %
Plogastel-Saint-Germain	29	789 km NW	2,024	46.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 89 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Clément-de-la-Place	49	566 km NW	2,168	46.5	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 89 % · humidity 43 %
Belgentier	83	202 km E	2,373	53.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 81 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bizanet	11	58 km SW	1,730	49.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 78 % · humidity 43 %
Puyloubier	13	175 km E	1,768	41.3	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 84 % · humidity 36 %
La Bastide-des-Jourdans	84	176 km E	1,760	45.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 66 % · humidity 29 %
Belgentier	83	202 km E	2,373	53.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 81 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Clément-de-la-Place	49	566 km NW	2,168	46.5	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 89 % · humidity 43 %
Plogastel-Saint-Germain	29	789 km NW	2,024	46.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 89 % · humidity 36 %

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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 Pinet'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
Ferrals-les-Corbières	11	70 km SW	1,275	45.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Lézignan-la-Cèbe	34	11 km NW	1,580	47.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Nézignan-l'Évêque	34	8.5 km W	1,718	47.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Rieux-Minervois	11	76 km W	1,957	45.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Laurens	34	29 km NW	1,815	56.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Mérindol	84	142 km E	2,283	65.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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