Quarante

Hérault · CC Sud-Hérault · INSEE 34226

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

Partly served 54.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 83 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Quarante (INSEE 34226) is in Hérault (34), part of CC Sud-Hérault. Population 1,776 (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/34226-quarante

Vitality score

Vitality score 54.2/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 83 % of the 10,387 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	0.55	25	13.81
Social	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.39	10	3.93
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.68	10	6.77
Housing mix	0.61	5	3.06

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 3 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 × Bakery (boulangerie) (J'M'OCCUPE DU PAIN). ^[3,4]

2 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE CATHALA · MAISON AGUERA). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (CODISUD · RONGO & CO). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (CHATEAU LES CARRASSES). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE JULES FERRY). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE LOUIS CAHUZAC). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (VALERIE SARRAZIN, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE BARRERE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE QUARANTE AU MONDE DES LIVRES). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (HALLE DE SPORTS). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (2 MECHES AVEC VOUS). ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	J'M'OCCUPE DU PAIN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	2	BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE CATHALA · MAISON AGUERA	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	CODISUD · RONGO & CO	INSEE BPE 2 / 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	2	CHATEAU LES CARRASSES	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	2		INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE JULES FERRY	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE LOUIS CAHUZAC	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	VALERIE SARRAZIN, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE BARRERE	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	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE QUARANTE AU MONDE DES LIVRES	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	HALLE DE SPORTS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	3	2 MECHES AVEC VOUS	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [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: 1,644 2023: 1,776 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,634 (2012) → 1,776 (2023): 8.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,509 (1990) → 1,776 (2023): 17.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,151, of which 19.4 % second homes and 9.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Quarante): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

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

GP (Quarante): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Quarante): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Quarante): 0.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 60.1▸

Days at or below 0 °C 10.8▸

Muggy days a summer 8.1

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 60 days a year at or above 30 °C and 11 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the ST JEAN DE MINERVOIS weather station, 9.5 km away at 258 m; the village itself is at 114 m. ^[9]

The village sits 144 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. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 8 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at ST JEAN DE MINERVOIS, 9.5 km away at 258 m, over 18 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 144 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 717 mm of rain a year, spread over 75 days — about 9.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at ST JEAN DE MINERVOIS, 9.5 km away at 258 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34226/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34226/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34226/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34226/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34226
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
Collobrières	83	271 km E	1,870	57.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 51 % · humidity 71 %
Le Bousquet-d'Orb	34	42 km NE	1,599	58	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 64 % · humidity 71 %
Vergongheon	43	227 km N	1,797	55.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 9 % · humidity 43 %
Charavines	38	308 km NE	2,003	66.5	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 39 % · humidity 50 %
Gurgy	89	504 km N	1,723	50.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 10 % · winter 68 % · humidity 57 %
Boëge	74	418 km NE	1,983	61.3	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Le Bousquet-d'Orb	34	42 km NE	1,599	58	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 64 % · humidity 71 %
Vergongheon	43	227 km N	1,797	55.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 9 % · humidity 43 %
Collobrières	83	271 km E	1,870	57.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 51 % · humidity 71 %
Charavines	38	308 km NE	2,003	66.5	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 39 % · humidity 50 %
Boëge	74	418 km NE	1,983	61.3	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 43 %
Gurgy	89	504 km N	1,723	50.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 10 % · winter 68 % · 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 Quarante'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
Olonzac	34	20 km W	1,693	64	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Remoulins	30	145 km NE	2,278	71.1	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Cruzy	34	1.9 km NW	992	59.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Jonquières-Saint-Vincent	30	140 km NE	3,875	50.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Vallabrègues	30	146 km NE	1,375	54	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Meynes	30	142 km NE	2,597	49.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %

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