Rousses

Identity

Rousses (INSEE 48130) is in Lozère (48), part of CC Gorges Causses Cévennes. Population 115 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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/48130-rousses

Vitality score

Vitality score 19.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 77 % of the 11,821 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.

Services

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE REFUGE DE ROUSSES). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 102 (2012) → 115 (2023): 12.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 69 (1990) → 115 (2023): 66.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 139, of which 57.6 % second homes and 0.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Vebron): 2.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Barre-des-Cévennes): 6.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-André-de-Valborgne): 11.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Meyrueis): 12.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Vebron): 3.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

An average of 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 56 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ROUSSES_SAPC weather station, 0.3 km away at 812 m; the village itself is at 730 m. ^[12]

The village sits 82 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at BASSURELS, 3.6 km away at 1,042 m, over 19 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 312 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,228 mm of rain a year, spread over 98 days — about 12.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ROUSSES_SAPC, 0.3 km away at 812 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

What property sold for

5 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 32,000 € — 542 € per m² of built surface. ^[13]

The median across Lozère is 1,319 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[13]

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

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48130/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48130/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48130/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 48130/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 48193
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 48019
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 30231
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 48096
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
13. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025