Herbeville

Identity

Herbeville (INSEE 78305) is in Yvelines (78), part of CC Gally Mauldre. Population 228 (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/78305-herbeville

Vitality score

Vitality score 22/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 63 % of the 16,725 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

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

1 × Restaurant (LE MAROC SUR VOTRE TABLE). ^[3,4]

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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 263 (2012) → 228 (2023): -13.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 325 (1990) → 228 (2023): -29.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 131, of which 9.9 % second homes and 7.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Maule): 1.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Mareil-sur-Mauldre): 1.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Mareil-sur-Mauldre): 1.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Mareil-sur-Mauldre): 1.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Herbeville): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

An average of 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 57 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MAULE weather station, 2.4 km away at 33 m; the village itself is at 132 m. ^[11]

The village sits 99 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °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 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CHAPET, 7 km away at 42 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 90 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 679 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MAULE, 2.4 km away at 33 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 78305/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 78305/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 78305/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 78305/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 78380
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 78368
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 78305
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024