Soubès

Hérault · CC Lodévois et Larzac · INSEE 34304

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

Partly served 51.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 88 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Soubès (INSEE 34304) is in Hérault (34), part of CC Lodévois et Larzac. Population 948 (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 51.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 88 % of the 14,641 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.68	5	3.42

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 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 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) (CHEZ CAMILLE). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LES PAPILLES HEUREUSES). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE BISTROT DU TERRAL). ^[4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JEROME MERIAUX, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SOUBES AP). ^[3]

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

2 × Hairdresser (DE MECHE AVEC ANAIS). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING DES SOURCES). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy. ^[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	CHEZ CAMILLE	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	LES PAPILLES HEUREUSES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE BISTROT DU TERRAL	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE GASTON DAVIS VILLARET	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	JEROME MERIAUX, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	SOUBES AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE 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	2	DE MECHE AVEC ANAIS	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	1	CAMPING DES SOURCES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 370 2023: 948 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 896 (2012) → 948 (2023): 5.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 616 (1990) → 948 (2023): 53.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 563, of which 15.8 % second homes and 9.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, GP Bakery — 4.2 km SWPharmacy — 4.2 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): 4.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Soubès): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Soubès): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Lodève): 4.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Soubès): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 41.2

Days at or below 0 °C 31.3

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 41 days a year at or above 30 °C and 31 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LODEVE weather station, 5.4 km away at 184 m; the village itself is at 239 m. ^[10]

The village sits 55 m above 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at SOUMONT, 6.7 km away at 252 m, over 28 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,082 mm of rain a year, spread over 80 days — about 13.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at POUJOLS, 1.7 km away at 276 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 — 34304/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34304/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34304/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34304/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34142
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
Beaumont-de-Pertuis	84	188 km E	1,130	44.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 77 % · humidity 64 %
La Bastide-Clairence	64	373 km W	1,000	49.1	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 93 %
Arlay	39	374 km NE	1,182	33.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 64 % · humidity 86 %
Langrolay-sur-Rance	22	673 km NW	991	48.5	Partly served	no figures
Cremeaux	42	242 km N	914	42.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Bromont-Lamothe	63	234 km N	1,032	47.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 31 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Beaumont-de-Pertuis	84	188 km E	1,130	44.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 77 % · humidity 64 %
Bromont-Lamothe	63	234 km N	1,032	47.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 31 % · humidity 64 %
Cremeaux	42	242 km N	914	42.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
La Bastide-Clairence	64	373 km W	1,000	49.1	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 93 %
Arlay	39	374 km NE	1,182	33.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 64 % · humidity 86 %
Langrolay-sur-Rance	22	673 km NW	991	48.5	Partly served	no figures

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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 Soubès'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
Rodès	66	139 km SW	758	43.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Castelnau-de-Lévis	81	103 km W	1,603	39.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Villemade	82	169 km W	834	41.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Bourg-Saint-Bernard	31	133 km W	1,125	43.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Margon	34	31 km S	778	42.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Le Poujol-sur-Orb	34	31 km SW	947	54.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

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