Saint-Privat

Hérault · CC Lodévois et Larzac · INSEE 34286

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

Few services 30.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 64 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Privat (INSEE 34286) is in Hérault (34), part of CC Lodévois et Larzac. Population 461 (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 30.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 64 % of the 17,925 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.38	5	1.88

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE PRIVATOIS). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (METAMORPHOSE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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)	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	1	LE PRIVATOIS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE 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	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	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	METAMORPHOSE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 183 2023: 461 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 417 (2012) → 461 (2023): 10.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 197 (1990) → 461 (2023): 134 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 362, of which 31.2 % second homes and 8.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 4.9 km WBakery — 6.6 km SGP — 7.3 km WPharmacy — 9.5 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 (Le Bosc): 6.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Étienne-de-Gourgas): 4.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Soubès): 7.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Lodève): 9.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Saint-Privat): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 45.8▸

Days at or below 0 °C 27.9

Muggy days a summer 4.4

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 46 days a year at or above 30 °C and 28 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the LA VACQUERIE_SAPC weather station, 4.5 km away at 620 m; the village itself is at 317 m. ^[13]

The village sits 303 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. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at SOUMONT, 8.9 km away at 252 m, over 28 summers. ^[13]

That station sits 65 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[13]

An average of 1,243 mm of rain a year, spread over 87 days — about 14.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at LA VACQUERIE_SAPC, 4.5 km away at 620 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34286/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34286/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34286/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34286/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34036
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34251
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34304
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34142
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34286
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-Georges-d'Hurtières	73	298 km NE	410	34.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 38 % · humidity 71 %
Dullin	73	271 km NE	497	33.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 34 % · humidity 79 %
Vallabrix	30	90 km NE	414	29.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Thomé	07	126 km NE	480	34.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 89 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Sébastien-d'Aigrefeuille	30	59 km NE	513	30.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille	73	293 km NE	472	32	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 62 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Sébastien-d'Aigrefeuille	30	59 km NE	513	30.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Vallabrix	30	90 km NE	414	29.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Thomé	07	126 km NE	480	34.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 89 % · humidity 79 %
Dullin	73	271 km NE	497	33.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 34 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille	73	293 km NE	472	32	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 62 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Georges-d'Hurtières	73	298 km NE	410	34.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 38 % · 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-Privat'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
Lanas	07	116 km NE	429	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Pont-de-Labeaume	07	122 km NE	567	34.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Bonlieu-sur-Roubion	26	148 km NE	458	32.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Pantaléon-les-Vignes	26	147 km NE	393	29.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Roynac	26	155 km NE	477	39.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Chauzon	07	110 km NE	422	30.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %

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