Saturargues

Hérault · CA Lunel Agglo · INSEE 34294

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

Few services 35.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 48 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saturargues (INSEE 34294) is in Hérault (34), part of CA Lunel Agglo. Population 1,022 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[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/34294-saturargues

Vitality score

Vitality score 35.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 48 % of the 14,188 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	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.63

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (A L'ESSENTIEL). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LA FERME DE SATURARGUES). ^[3,4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CLOE APARICIO, MÉDECIN · FREDERIC PERLETTI, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE MUNICIPALE GEORGE SAND LES AMIS DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), 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)	1	A L'ESSENTIEL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	LA FERME DE SATURARGUES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE SAINT-EXUPERY	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	CLOE APARICIO, MÉDECIN · FREDERIC PERLETTI, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [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	MÉDIATHÈQUE MUNICIPALE GEORGE SAND LES AMIS DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE	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		INSEE BPE 2 / 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: 253 2023: 1,022 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 906 (2012) → 1,022 (2023): 12.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 461 (1990) → 1,022 (2023): 121.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 460, of which 3.7 % second homes and 4.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 0.5 km NBakery — 2.1 km EPharmacy — 2.7 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 (Villetelle): 2.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saturargues): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saturargues): 0.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Entre-Vignes): 2.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saturargues): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 67.5▸

Days at or below 0 °C 35.4

Muggy days a summer 14.4▸

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 68 days a year at or above 30 °C and 35 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the VERARGUES weather station, 1.4 km away at 56 m; the village itself is at 31 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 14 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at MARSILLARGUES, 10.7 km away at 4 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 744 mm of rain a year, spread over 68 days — about 10.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at VERARGUES, 1.4 km away at 56 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 — 34294/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34294/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34294/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34294/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34340
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34294
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34246
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
Villiers-le-Bâcle	91	577 km N	1,031	31.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 85 % · humidity 7 %
Réaumont	38	215 km NE	1,019	27.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 13 % · winter 86 % · humidity 14 %
Voisenon	77	551 km N	1,170	32.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 88 % · humidity 7 %
Poleymieux-au-Mont-d'Or	69	243 km N	1,412	33.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 77 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Aubin-d'Arquenay	14	702 km NW	1,118	33.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 89 % · humidity 7 %
La Tour-en-Jarez	42	197 km N	1,495	34.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 68 % · humidity 7 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Tour-en-Jarez	42	197 km N	1,495	34.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 68 % · humidity 7 %
Réaumont	38	215 km NE	1,019	27.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 13 % · winter 86 % · humidity 14 %
Poleymieux-au-Mont-d'Or	69	243 km N	1,412	33.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 77 % · humidity 36 %
Voisenon	77	551 km N	1,170	32.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 88 % · humidity 7 %
Villiers-le-Bâcle	91	577 km N	1,031	31.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 85 % · humidity 7 %
Saint-Aubin-d'Arquenay	14	702 km NW	1,118	33.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 89 % · humidity 7 %

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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 Saturargues'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
Villetelle	34	2.5 km NE	1,768	46.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Sériès	34	1.3 km NW	972	26.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Valergues	34	7.3 km SW	2,238	55.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Entre-Vignes	34	2.8 km W	2,200	60	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Boisseron	34	5.0 km NW	2,185	50.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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