Valergues

Hérault · CA du Pays de l'Or · INSEE 34321

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

Partly served 55.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 84 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Valergues (INSEE 34321) is in Hérault (34), part of CA du Pays de l'Or. Population 2,238 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/34321-valergues

Vitality score

Vitality score 55.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 84 % of the 8,865 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	0.34	25	8.55
Social	0.79	20	15.82
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	0.98	5	4.88

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE FOURNIL DU MAS · LE FOURNIL DE VALERGUES). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[3,4]

6 × Restaurant (LE PASSE TEMPS A VALERGUES · RESTAURANT LE PROVENCAL · PIZZA GINO · LA ROTISSERIE). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (LE PETIT VALERGUOIS). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE LES GALINETTES). ^[3]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (LAURENT CROENNE, MÉDECIN · MARIE MOLINIER-SFARA, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE ANNE BOURGOUIN-DURAND). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (R PRESTIGE BARBER). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 1 × Restaurant, 2 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	LE FOURNIL DU MAS · LE FOURNIL DE VALERGUES	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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	6	LE PASSE TEMPS A VALERGUES · RESTAURANT LE PROVENCAL · PIZZA GINO · LA ROTISSERIE	INSEE BPE 6 / INSEE SIRENE 7 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	LE PETIT VALERGUOIS	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE LES GALINETTES	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE MARCEL PAGNOL	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	LAURENT CROENNE, MÉDECIN · MARIE MOLINIER-SFARA, 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	BIBLIOTHÈQUE ANNE BOURGOUIN-DURAND	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	R PRESTIGE BARBER	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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: 390 2023: 2,238 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,035 (2012) → 2,238 (2023): 10 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 936 (1990) → 2,238 (2023): 139.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 990, of which 1.2 % second homes and 4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP Food shop — 1.8 km EPharmacy — 2.1 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 (Valergues): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lunel-Viel): 1.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Valergues): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Brès): 2.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Valergues): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

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, 6.6 km away at 56 m; the village itself is at 15 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at MARSILLARGUES, 9.3 km away at 4 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 649 mm of rain a year, spread over 63 days — about 10.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LUNEL, 5.6 km away at 6 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

What property sold for

101 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 371,000 € — 3,504 € per m² of built surface. ^[12]

15 flats sold over the same window, at a median of 230,000 € — 2,927 € per m². ^[12]

The median across Hérault is 2,750 € per m², so this commune sits above it. ^[12]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34321/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34321/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34321/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 34321/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34321
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34146
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34244
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Cabanac-et-Villagrains	33	383 km W	2,400	47.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 74 % · humidity 50 %
Les Martres-d'Artière	63	249 km N	2,252	48.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 74 % · humidity 7 %
Locqueltas	56	698 km NW	2,031	53.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 81 % · humidity 14 %
Saint-Jean-le-Vieux	01	283 km N	1,839	50.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 55 % · humidity 7 %
Prahecq	79	451 km NW	2,252	52.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 99 % · humidity 14 %
Peujard	33	388 km NW	2,195	48.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 89 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Les Martres-d'Artière	63	249 km N	2,252	48.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 74 % · humidity 7 %
Saint-Jean-le-Vieux	01	283 km N	1,839	50.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 55 % · humidity 7 %
Cabanac-et-Villagrains	33	383 km W	2,400	47.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 74 % · humidity 50 %
Peujard	33	388 km NW	2,195	48.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 89 % · humidity 50 %
Prahecq	79	451 km NW	2,252	52.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 99 % · humidity 14 %
Locqueltas	56	698 km NW	2,031	53.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 81 % · humidity 14 %

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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 Valergues'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
Boisseron	34	11 km N	2,185	50.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Villetelle	34	9.7 km NE	1,768	46.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Mudaison	34	2.6 km SW	3,009	36.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Lunel-Viel	34	2.7 km NE	4,507	53	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saturargues	34	7.3 km NE	1,022	35.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Entre-Vignes	34	6.9 km N	2,200	60	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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