Saint-Étienne-de-Gourgas

Hérault · CC Lodévois et Larzac · INSEE 34251

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

Few services 37/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 77 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Étienne-de-Gourgas (INSEE 34251) is in Hérault (34), part of CC Lodévois et Larzac. Population 517 (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 37/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 77 % of the 17,723 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.6	5	3.01

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE BRESSON). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (POTAGERS D'HERAULT). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE DE SAINT ETIENNE DE GOURGAS ASSOCIATION LIRE À SAINT ETIENNE DE GOURGAS). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (L'ATELIER D'EMY ET LISE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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)	1	BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE BRESSON	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	POTAGERS D'HERAULT	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE DE SAINT ETIENNE DE GOURGAS ASSOCIATION LIRE À SAINT ETIENNE DE GOURGAS	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	1	L'ATELIER D'EMY ET LISE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 233 2023: 517 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 454 (2012) → 517 (2023): 13.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 253 (1990) → 517 (2023): 104.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 291, of which 19.9 % second homes and 3.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 2.4 km WBakery — 5.9 km SWPharmacy — 5.9 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 (Lodève): 5.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Étienne-de-Gourgas): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Soubès): 2.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Lodève): 5.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Étienne-de-Gourgas): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 48.6▸

Days at or below 0 °C 25.8

Muggy days a summer 5.4

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 26 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LA VACQUERIE_SAPC weather station, 7 km away at 620 m; the village itself is at 266 m. ^[11]

The village sits 354 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at SOUMONT, 7.3 km away at 252 m, over 28 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,082 mm of rain a year, spread over 80 days — about 13.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at POUJOLS, 4.1 km away at 276 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 — 34251/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34251/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34251/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34251/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34142
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34251
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34304
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
Boutenac	11	84 km SW	747	36.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 50 %
Sécheras	07	188 km NE	516	32	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 81 % · humidity 79 %
Lagos	64	297 km W	473	25.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 70 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-André-Farivillers	60	652 km N	514	30	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 58 % · humidity 71 %
Le Perchay	95	604 km N	504	32.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 3 % · winter 72 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Romain	16	306 km NW	514	25.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Boutenac	11	84 km SW	747	36.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 50 %
Sécheras	07	188 km NE	516	32	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 81 % · humidity 79 %
Lagos	64	297 km W	473	25.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 70 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Romain	16	306 km NW	514	25.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %
Le Perchay	95	604 km N	504	32.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 3 % · winter 72 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-André-Farivillers	60	652 km N	514	30	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 58 % · 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 Saint-Étienne-de-Gourgas'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
Roussas	26	136 km NE	409	22.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Thomé	07	129 km NE	480	34.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Privat	34	5.1 km E	461	30.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Cabrières	34	22 km S	560	41.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Mirmande	26	156 km NE	611	55.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Lieuran-Cabrières	34	21 km S	335	17.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %

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