Salasc

Hérault · CC du Clermontais · INSEE 34292

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

Few services 30.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 71 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Salasc (INSEE 34292) is in Hérault (34), part of CC du Clermontais. Population 357 (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 30.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 71 % of the 18,074 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	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.63	5	3.15

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 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

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, 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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		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	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	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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 181 2023: 357 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 305 (2012) → 357 (2023): 17 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 141 (1990) → 357 (2023): 153.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 243, of which 18.5 % second homes and 11.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 4.0 km NGP — 4.2 km NBakery — 8.5 km NPharmacy — 9.5 km E 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): 8.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Octon): 4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Octon): 4.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Clermont-l'Hérault): 9.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Salasc): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 42.1

Days at or below 0 °C 16.4▸

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 42 days a year at or above 30 °C and 16 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the OCTON weather station, 4 km away at 184 m; the village itself is at 199 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at SOUMONT, 10.1 km away at 252 m, over 28 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 53 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 983 mm of rain a year, spread over 77 days — about 12.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at OCTON, 4 km away at 184 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34292/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34292/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34292/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34292/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34036
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34186
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34079
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34292
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
Sailly	78	614 km N	354	28	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 50 % · humidity 64 %
La Cresse	12	64 km N	333	30.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 85 % · humidity 64 %
Rochefort-en-Valdaine	26	159 km NE	353	31.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 57 % · humidity 71 %
Contes	62	762 km N	354	24.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 10 % · winter 58 % · humidity 64 %
Carbuccia	2A	492 km E	379	33.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Baron	30	91 km NE	337	30	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Cresse	12	64 km N	333	30.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 85 % · humidity 64 %
Baron	30	91 km NE	337	30	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
Rochefort-en-Valdaine	26	159 km NE	353	31.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 57 % · humidity 71 %
Carbuccia	2A	492 km E	379	33.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Sailly	78	614 km N	354	28	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 50 % · humidity 64 %
Contes	62	762 km N	354	24.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 10 % · winter 58 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Salasc'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
Saint-Sixte	47	211 km W	363	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Vaudreuille	31	110 km W	392	31.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Antugnac	11	115 km SW	291	17.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Luc-sur-Aude	11	112 km SW	257	37.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Étienne-Estréchoux	34	18 km W	259	8.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Étienne-d'Albagnan	34	38 km W	302	28.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

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