Meyrueis

Lozère · CC Gorges Causses Cévennes · INSEE 48096

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

Served 72/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 100 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Meyrueis (INSEE 48096) is in Lozère (48), part of CC Gorges Causses Cévennes. Population 770 (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/48096-meyrueis

Vitality score

Vitality score 72/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 100 % of the 15,896 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	0.79	25	19.68
Social	0.95	20	19
Education	0.86	10	8.65
Health	0.63	10	6.32
Public & culture	0.75	5	3.74
Population trend	0.35	10	3.49
Housing mix	0.07	5	0.33

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 2 of 3

Lodging 2 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) (LES SECRETS DE DOMINIQUE). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (SARL FLAVIER GUILLAUME). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (CARREFOUR EXPRESS · Y3A DELI). ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (LE JARDIN DES GLACES · SAS LUDIVINE ROBERT · L'AVEN GOURMAND). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar (A VOLTA · LE MOONLIGHT). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE GUILHEM ADEMAR · ECOLE PRIVEE STE MARIE). ^[3]

2 × Collège (COLLEGE ANDRE CHAMSON · COLLEGE PRIVE SAINTE MARIE). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JACQUES SEEWAGEN, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE MOLINES). ^[3,4]

2 × Post office / agence postale (MEYRUEIS CARREFOUR MARKET RP · LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHEQUE MUNICIPALE DE MEYRUEIS). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (HALLE DES SPORTS). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

6 × Hotel (HOTEL CHATEAU D'AYRES · HOTEL DE L'EUROPE · HOTEL LE MONT AIGOUAL · GRAND HOTEL DE FRANCE · FAMILY). ^[3,4]

3 × Campsite (CAMPING LE JARDIN DES CEVENNES · LE PRE DE CHARLET · CAMPING LE CAPELAN). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Hotel, 1 × Campsite.

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	LES SECRETS DE DOMINIQUE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	SARL FLAVIER GUILLAUME	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	CARREFOUR EXPRESS · Y3A DELI	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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	3	LE JARDIN DES GLACES · SAS LUDIVINE ROBERT · L'AVEN GOURMAND	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Café / bar	3	A VOLTA · LE MOONLIGHT	INSEE SIRENE 3 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE GUILHEM ADEMAR · ECOLE PRIVEE STE MARIE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	2	COLLEGE ANDRE CHAMSON · COLLEGE PRIVE SAINTE MARIE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	JACQUES SEEWAGEN, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE MOLINES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	2	MEYRUEIS CARREFOUR MARKET RP · LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHEQUE MUNICIPALE DE MEYRUEIS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	HALLE DES SPORTS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Hotel	6	HOTEL CHATEAU D'AYRES · HOTEL DE L'EUROPE · HOTEL LE MONT AIGOUAL · GRAND HOTEL DE FRANCE · FAMILY	INSEE BPE 6 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Campsite	3	CAMPING LE JARDIN DES CEVENNES · LE PRE DE CHARLET · CAMPING LE CAPELAN	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,007 2023: 770 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 814 (2012) → 770 (2023): -5.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 907 (1990) → 770 (2023): -15.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 777, of which 46.7 % second homes and 7.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 0.6 km S 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 (Meyrueis): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Meyrueis): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Meyrueis): 0.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Meyrueis): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Meyrueis): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 10.2

Days at or below 0 °C 65.5

Muggy days a summer 0.3

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 10 days a year at or above 30 °C and 66 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the MEYRUEIS-FREPES weather station, 3.4 km away at 1,054 m; the village itself is at 708 m. ^[9]

The village sits 346 m below 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. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at ST PIERRE-DES-TRIPIERS, 12.5 km away at 929 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 221 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 950 mm of rain a year, spread over 111 days — about 8.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at MEYRUEIS-FREPES, 3.4 km away at 1,054 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48096/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48096/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48096/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48096/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 48096
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
Chaudes-Aigues	15	82 km NW	813	67.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Anost	71	326 km N	695	66.9	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 57 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-en-Vercors	26	180 km NE	797	70.5	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 54 % · humidity 100 %
Montpezat-sous-Bauzon	07	85 km NE	770	68.5	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Massat	09	221 km SW	749	70.6	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 46 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Anthème	63	155 km N	716	67	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Chaudes-Aigues	15	82 km NW	813	67.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Montpezat-sous-Bauzon	07	85 km NE	770	68.5	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Anthème	63	155 km N	716	67	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-en-Vercors	26	180 km NE	797	70.5	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 54 % · humidity 100 %
Massat	09	221 km SW	749	70.6	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 46 % · humidity 86 %
Anost	71	326 km N	695	66.9	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 57 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Meyrueis'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
Chaudes-Aigues	15	82 km NW	813	67.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Sornac	19	192 km NW	776	56.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Amans-des-Cots	12	83 km NW	709	53.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Salles-Curan	12	51 km W	1,043	49.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Siaugues-Sainte-Marie	43	103 km N	839	66.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Tauves	63	166 km N	684	58.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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