Saint-Jean-de-Fos

Hérault · CC Vallée de l'Hérault · INSEE 34267

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

Partly served 50.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 76 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Jean-de-Fos (INSEE 34267) is in Hérault (34), part of CC Vallée de l'Hérault. Population 1,745 (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/34267-saint-jean-de-fos

Vitality score

Vitality score 50.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 76 % of the 10,524 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.63	20	12.58
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.75	5	3.75

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 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 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) (CHEZ BASTOGNE). ^[3,4]

4 × Restaurant (CASOAN · BAR LE ST JEAN · LE PETIT BISTRO · LE CHRISTALAIN). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (18GRAMMES). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE ANDRE MIQUEL · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PRIVEE SAINT GENIES). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (DELPHINE DUPETY, MÉDECIN · FRANCOIS POUZET, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE LA CLAMOUSE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE DE SAINT JEAN DE FOS). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (L'ATELIER BEAUTE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	CHEZ BASTOGNE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	4	CASOAN · BAR LE ST JEAN · LE PETIT BISTRO · LE CHRISTALAIN	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	18GRAMMES	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE ANDRE MIQUEL · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PRIVEE SAINT GENIES	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	DELPHINE DUPETY, MÉDECIN · FRANCOIS POUZET, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE LA CLAMOUSE	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	BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE DE SAINT JEAN DE FOS	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	2	L'ATELIER BEAUTE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 939 2023: 1,745 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,567 (2012) → 1,745 (2023): 11.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,011 (1990) → 1,745 (2023): 72.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,001, of which 12.5 % second homes and 8.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 3.2 km SE 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 (Saint-Jean-de-Fos): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Aniane): 3.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Jean-de-Fos): 0.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Jean-de-Fos): 0.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Jean-de-Fos): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 63.1▸

Days at or below 0 °C 27.3

Muggy days a summer 7.4

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 63 days a year at or above 30 °C and 27 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ST ANDRE DE SANGONIS weather station, 5.4 km away at 86 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 GIGNAC, 4.3 km away at 58 m, over 10 summers. ^[10]

An average of 840 mm of rain a year, spread over 68 days — about 12.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ANIANE, 3.2 km away at 65 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 — 34267/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34267/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34267/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34267/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34267
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34010
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
Grillon	84	134 km NE	1,690	45.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %
Visan	84	131 km NE	1,857	45.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 91 % · humidity 64 %
Le Breil-sur-Mérize	72	535 km NW	1,552	46.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 81 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Mesmin	85	480 km NW	1,774	41.5	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 97 % · humidity 64 %
Bussières	42	244 km N	1,540	37.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 55 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Ouen	80	713 km N	1,772	43	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 96 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Visan	84	131 km NE	1,857	45.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 91 % · humidity 64 %
Grillon	84	134 km NE	1,690	45.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %
Bussières	42	244 km N	1,540	37.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 55 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Mesmin	85	480 km NW	1,774	41.5	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 97 % · humidity 64 %
Le Breil-sur-Mérize	72	535 km NW	1,552	46.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 81 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Ouen	80	713 km N	1,772	43	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 96 % · 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 Saint-Jean-de-Fos'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
Boulbon	13	93 km E	1,543	51.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Étienne-du-Grès	13	95 km E	2,489	55.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Olonzac	34	81 km SW	1,693	64	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Hilaire-d'Ozilhan	30	89 km E	1,106	42.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Aubord	30	62 km E	2,253	58	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Gallargues-le-Montueux	30	50 km E	3,659	46	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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