Poilhes

Hérault · CC Sud-Hérault · INSEE 34206

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

Few services 37.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 77 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Poilhes (INSEE 34206) is in Hérault (34), part of CC Sud-Hérault. Population 548 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 37.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 77 % of the 17,507 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.56	10	5.6
Housing mix	0.65	5	3.25

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 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (EPICERIE DU CANAL). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LA TOUR SARRAZINE). ^[3,4]

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE POILHES). ^[3]

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), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[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	EPICERIE DU CANAL	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	LA TOUR SARRAZINE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE PAUL RIQUET	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	1	POILHES AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE POILHES	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	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: 504 peak 2012: 564 2023: 548 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 564 (2012) → 548 (2023): -2.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 517 (1990) → 548 (2023): 6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 361, of which 17.5 % second homes and 8.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 3.4 km NWGP — 3.5 km NWPharmacy — 4.4 km NE 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 (Capestang): 3.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

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

GP (Capestang): 3.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Montady): 4.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

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

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 9.2

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. ^[11]

Measured at the BEZIERS-COURTADE weather station, 6.8 km away at 25 m; the village itself is at 33 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at MURVIEL LES BEZIERS, 19.5 km away at 140 m, over 29 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 107 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 537 mm of rain a year, spread over 56 days — about 9.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at BEZIERS-COURTADE, 6.8 km away at 25 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 — 34206/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34206/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34206/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34206/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34052
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34206
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34161
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
Soing-Cubry-Charentenay	70	523 km NE	555	36.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 18 % · humidity 57 %
Thézan-des-Corbières	11	34 km SW	573	35.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 91 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Rabier	24	258 km NW	538	33.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 91 % · humidity 71 %
Montmaur	05	264 km NE	532	43.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 0 % · humidity 36 %
Monfort	32	190 km W	515	40.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Fontiers-Cabardès	11	68 km W	476	44.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 69 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Thézan-des-Corbières	11	34 km SW	573	35.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 91 % · humidity 79 %
Fontiers-Cabardès	11	68 km W	476	44.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 69 % · humidity 50 %
Monfort	32	190 km W	515	40.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Rabier	24	258 km NW	538	33.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 91 % · humidity 71 %
Montmaur	05	264 km NE	532	43.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 0 % · humidity 36 %
Soing-Cubry-Charentenay	70	523 km NE	555	36.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 18 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Poilhes'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-Pons-de-Mauchiens	34	42 km NE	667	45.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Cébazan	34	14 km NW	646	41.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Escosse	09	126 km W	356	33.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Campagnan	34	42 km NE	714	45.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Caillac	46	191 km NW	581	35.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Douelle	46	189 km NW	830	53.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %

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