Monts-de-Randon

Lozère · CC Randon - Margeride · INSEE 48127

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

Partly served 51.8/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 83 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Monts-de-Randon (INSEE 48127) is in Lozère (48), part of CC Randon - Margeride. Population 1,209 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2019-01-01 from 4 former communes: Estables (48057), Saint-Amans (48133), Servières (48189), La Villedieu (48197). ^[3]

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/48127-monts-de-randon

Vitality score

Vitality score 51.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 83 % of the 13,155 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	0.39	25	9.84
Social	0.66	20	13.11
Education	0.78	10	7.77
Health	0.39	10	3.93
Public & culture	0.51	5	2.56
Population trend	0.6	10	6.01
Housing mix	0.15	5	0.77

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 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. ^[4,5]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE L'AURORE). ^[4,5]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (MAISON DELORD). ^[4,5]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (EPICERIE BRUN). ^[4,5]

1 × Restaurant (CHEZ MARCIA). ^[4,5]

5 × Café / bar (LE FORTUNIO). ^[5]

3 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE GRAINES DE PLUME · ECOLE PRIMAIRE SAINT-AMANS · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINT FERREOL). ^[4]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (LUCILE COULOMB, MÉDECIN). ^[4]

1 × Pharmacy. ^[4,5]

2 × Post office / agence postale (RIEUTORT DE RANDON LPAC AP · LA POSTE). ^[4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE RIEUTORT-DE-RANDON). ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[4,5]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[4,5]

1 × Hotel (O'MINEOLA). ^[4,5]

1 × Campsite (LE CAMPING DE RANDON). ^[4,5]

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

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BOULANGERIE L'AURORE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	MAISON DELORD	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	EPICERIE BRUN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	1	CHEZ MARCIA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [4,5]
Café / bar	5	LE FORTUNIO	INSEE SIRENE 5 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	3	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE GRAINES DE PLUME · ECOLE PRIMAIRE SAINT-AMANS · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINT FERREOL	INSEE BPE 3 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	LUCILE COULOMB, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Pharmacy	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	2	RIEUTORT DE RANDON LPAC AP · LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 2 [4]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE RIEUTORT-DE-RANDON	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Hotel	1	O'MINEOLA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,5]
Campsite	1	LE CAMPING DE RANDON	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,5]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,568 2023: 1,209 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,308 (2012) → 1,209 (2023): -7.6 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,098 (1990) → 1,209 (2023): 10.1 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,083, of which 42.3 % second homes and 6.7 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 12.1 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 (Monts-de-Randon): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Monts-de-Randon): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Monts-de-Randon): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Mende): 12.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Monts-de-Randon): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 1.8▸

Days at or below 0 °C 90.4

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 2 days a year at or above 30 °C and 90 days at or below 0 °C, over 12 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ESTABLES weather station, 5.8 km away at 1,552 m; the village itself is at 1,133 m. ^[11]

The village sits 419 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ESTABLES, 5.8 km away at 1,552 m, over 10 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 419 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 904 mm of rain a year, spread over 114 days — about 7.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at RIBENNES, 4.9 km away at 1,057 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48127/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48127/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48127/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48127/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 48127
INSEE BPE 2025 — 48095
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
Les Eyzies	24	198 km W	1,134	62.9	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 57 % · humidity 86 %
Bonnieux	84	171 km SE	1,198	53.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 3 % · winter 49 % · humidity 100 %
Montréal	32	272 km W	1,171	45.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 20 % · humidity 7 %
Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère	15	51 km NW	1,677	52.9	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Conques-en-Rouergue	12	85 km W	1,540	58.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 3 % · winter 38 % · humidity 79 %
Caylus	82	143 km W	1,445	57.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 70 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Neuvéglise-sur-Truyère	15	51 km NW	1,677	52.9	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Conques-en-Rouergue	12	85 km W	1,540	58.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 3 % · winter 38 % · humidity 79 %
Caylus	82	143 km W	1,445	57.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 70 % · humidity 79 %
Bonnieux	84	171 km SE	1,198	53.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 3 % · winter 49 % · humidity 100 %
Les Eyzies	24	198 km W	1,134	62.9	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 57 % · humidity 86 %
Montréal	32	272 km W	1,171	45.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 20 % · 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 Monts-de-Randon'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
Mazet-Saint-Voy	43	76 km NE	1,114	42.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse	38	200 km NE	1,003	59.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Peyrelevade	19	164 km NW	824	67.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Allanche	15	79 km NW	773	62.4	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Habère-Poche	74	295 km NE	1,488	46.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Anthème	63	105 km N	716	67	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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