Le Puech

Hérault · CC Lodévois et Larzac · INSEE 34220

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

Few services 24.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 68 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Puech (INSEE 34220) is in Hérault (34), part of CC Lodévois et Larzac. Population 262 (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 24.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 68 % of the 17,443 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.5	5	2.51

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (MTA). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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	2	MTA	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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: 142 2023: 262 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 233 (2012) → 262 (2023): 12.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 135 (1990) → 262 (2023): 94.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 169, of which 24.9 % second homes and 2.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 2.9 km EGP — 2.9 km EFood shop — 3.3 km EPharmacy — 3.6 km NPrimary school — 4.2 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): 2.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Le Bosc): 3.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Le Bosc): 2.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Lodève): 3.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Lodève): 4.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 49.1▸

Days at or below 0 °C 9.4▸

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 49 days a year at or above 30 °C and 9 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the SOUMONT weather station, 3.1 km away at 252 m; the village itself is at 200 m. ^[10]

The village sits 52 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.7 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at SOUMONT, 3.1 km away at 252 m, over 28 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 52 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 943 mm of rain a year, spread over 78 days — about 12.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at SOUMONT, 3.1 km away at 252 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 — 34220/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34220/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34220/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34220/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34036
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
Goldbach-Altenbach	68	550 km NE	261	19.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 16 % · humidity 57 %
La Tour-du-Meix	39	365 km NE	261	26.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 1 % · humidity 57 %
Vault-de-Lugny	89	425 km N	271	14.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 43 % · humidity 71 %
Montchauvet	78	592 km N	275	18.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 5 % · winter 45 % · humidity 71 %
Pailly	89	518 km N	279	22.2	Few services	no figures
Laprade	16	304 km NW	248	21.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 59 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Laprade	16	304 km NW	248	21.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 59 % · humidity 79 %
La Tour-du-Meix	39	365 km NE	261	26.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 1 % · humidity 57 %
Vault-de-Lugny	89	425 km N	271	14.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 43 % · humidity 71 %
Pailly	89	518 km N	279	22.2	Few services	no figures
Goldbach-Altenbach	68	550 km NE	261	19.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 16 % · humidity 57 %
Montchauvet	78	592 km N	275	18.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 5 % · winter 45 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Puech'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
Pierrerue	34	40 km SW	289	19.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Villespassans	34	47 km SW	185	23.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Usclas-du-Bosc	34	7.8 km NE	250	17.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Carbuccia	2A	495 km E	379	33.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Prades-sur-Vernazobre	34	38 km SW	374	26	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Assignan	34	48 km SW	174	9.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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