Le Pouget

Hérault · CC Vallée de l'Hérault · INSEE 34210

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

Partly served 59.8/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 91 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Pouget (INSEE 34210) is in Hérault (34), part of CC Vallée de l'Hérault. Population 2,122 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/34210-le-pouget

Vitality score

Vitality score 59.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 91 % of the 9,203 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	0.39	25	9.84
Social	0.78	20	15.5
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.45

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 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]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (EDEN'S MARKET). ^[3,4]

5 × Restaurant (SARL AU RAPH INE · LA BONNE GRIFFE · DESTINATION Ó SAVEURS D'ELISE). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (CAFE LA BOHEME · BRASSERIE LA BOHEME). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE LA FARANDOLE). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE L.MATHOULET). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (DENIS LE GRAND, MÉDECIN · MICHEL PEREZ, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (SELAS PHARMACIE DU POUGET). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE JOSEPH TELLIER). ^[3]

4 × Hairdresser (COIFFURE SYLVIE · BOHEME COIFFURE · EMILIEA COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPOTEL DE L'AFFENAGE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Bakery (boulangerie), 3 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Supermarket. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	EDEN'S MARKET	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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	5	SARL AU RAPH INE · LA BONNE GRIFFE · DESTINATION Ó SAVEURS D'ELISE	INSEE SIRENE 5 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	CAFE LA BOHEME · BRASSERIE LA BOHEME	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE LA FARANDOLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE L.MATHOULET	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	DENIS LE GRAND, MÉDECIN · MICHEL PEREZ, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	SELAS PHARMACIE DU POUGET	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE JOSEPH TELLIER	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	4	COIFFURE SYLVIE · BOHEME COIFFURE · EMILIEA COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [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	CAMPOTEL DE L'AFFENAGE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,077 2023: 2,122 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,823 (2012) → 2,122 (2023): 16.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,103 (1990) → 2,122 (2023): 92.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,127, of which 5.5 % second homes and 9.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Bakery — 2.9 km W 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 (Canet): 2.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Le Pouget): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Le Pouget): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Le Pouget): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Le Pouget): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 56.1▸

Days at or below 0 °C 30.3

Muggy days a summer 6.8

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 56 days a year at or above 30 °C and 30 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LE POUGET weather station, 1.1 km away at 70 m; the village itself is at 101 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ST ANDRE DE SANGONIS, 8.3 km away at 86 m, over 20 summers. ^[10]

An average of 698 mm of rain a year, spread over 61 days — about 11.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LE POUGET, 1.1 km away at 70 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34210/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34210/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34210/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34210/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34051
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34210
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
Saint-Uze	26	207 km NE	2,139	50.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 68 % · humidity 64 %
Sillé-le-Guillaume	72	584 km NW	2,195	53.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 97 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Chaptes	30	74 km NE	2,055	51.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 64 %
Bertry	59	722 km N	2,140	55.7	Partly served	no figures
Izeaux	38	246 km NE	2,134	52.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 77 % · humidity 50 %
Montréal	11	120 km W	2,136	58.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 86 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Chaptes	30	74 km NE	2,055	51.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 64 %
Montréal	11	120 km W	2,136	58.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 86 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Uze	26	207 km NE	2,139	50.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 68 % · humidity 64 %
Izeaux	38	246 km NE	2,134	52.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 77 % · humidity 50 %
Sillé-le-Guillaume	72	584 km NW	2,195	53.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 97 % · humidity 57 %
Bertry	59	722 km N	2,140	55.7	Partly served	no figures

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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 Le Pouget'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
Aubord	30	66 km E	2,253	58	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Mollégès	13	117 km E	2,647	66.8	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Étienne-du-Grès	13	99 km E	2,489	55.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Tavel	30	105 km NE	2,083	56.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Andiol	13	117 km E	3,353	47.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Olonzac	34	73 km SW	1,693	64	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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