Les Hermaux

Lozère · CC Aubrac Lot Causses Tarn · INSEE 48073

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

No daily shops 13.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 48 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Les Hermaux (INSEE 48073) is in Lozère (48), part of CC Aubrac Lot Causses Tarn. Population 108 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/48073-les-hermaux

Vitality score

Vitality score 13.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 48 % of the 11,270 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.47	10	4.73
Housing mix	0.08	5	0.41

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 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, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINT ROCH). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINT ROCH	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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 181 2023: 108 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 113 (2012) → 108 (2023): -4.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 111 (1990) → 108 (2023): -2.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 133, of which 45.9 % second homes and 12 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 5.2 km SEFood shop — 5.2 km SEGP — 5.2 km SEPharmacy — 5.3 km SE 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 (Saint-Germain-du-Teil): 5.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Germain-du-Teil): 5.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Germain-du-Teil): 5.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Germain-du-Teil): 5.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Les Hermaux): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8.7

Days at or below 0 °C 66.3

Muggy days a summer 0

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 66 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CHIRAC weather station, 7.2 km away at 1,000 m; the village itself is at 1,021 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at LE BUISSON, 15.6 km away at 1,088 m, over 19 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 67 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 1,294 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 11 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LES SALCES-FROMENTAL, 2.7 km away at 1,075 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 — 48073/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48073/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48073/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48073/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 48156
INSEE BPE 2025 — 48073
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
Sainte-Croix	26	173 km E	104	14.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 15 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Lourde	31	262 km SW	123	19.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 79 %
Coiffy-le-Haut	52	426 km NE	106	3.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 80 % · humidity 86 %
Oze	05	212 km E	103	12.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 11 % · humidity 100 %
Giuncheto	2A	574 km SE	106	12.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 50 % · humidity 93 %
Mont-devant-Sassey	55	566 km N	103	5.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sainte-Croix	26	173 km E	104	14.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 15 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Oze	05	212 km E	103	12.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 11 % · humidity 100 %
Lourde	31	262 km SW	123	19.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 79 %
Coiffy-le-Haut	52	426 km NE	106	3.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 80 % · humidity 86 %
Mont-devant-Sassey	55	566 km N	103	5.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Giuncheto	2A	574 km SE	106	12.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 50 % · humidity 93 %

Sort and compare these on the full list →

…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 Les Hermaux'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
Mont-devant-Sassey	55	566 km N	103	5.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Oô	31	285 km SW	104	24.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Burgalays	31	270 km SW	124	7.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
La Grande-Fosse	88	521 km NE	126	12.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Lasfaillades	81	116 km SW	84	7.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Lastic	63	140 km N	98	2.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

Commune website · Wikipedia (en) ·Wikipedia (fr) · INSEE dossier complet · OpenStreetMap · Web search · Map

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/48073-les-hermaux