Barras

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence · CA Provence-Alpes-Agglomération · INSEE 04021

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

Few services 23.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 83 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Barras (INSEE 04021) is in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (04), part of CA Provence-Alpes-Agglomération. Population 139 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 23.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 83 % of the 13,473 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	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.75	10	7.52
Housing mix	0.58	5	2.91

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 1 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 ELEMENTAIRE BARRAS). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (LAURENT JOUVE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE BARRAS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	LAURENT JOUVE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 109 peak 2007: 152 2023: 139 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 145 (2012) → 139 (2023): -4.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 111 (1990) → 139 (2023): 25.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 86, of which 20.9 % second homes and 4.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 2.0 km SBakery — 5.8 km NEFood shop — 5.8 km SEPharmacy — 6.7 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 (Thoard): 5.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Digne-les-Bains): 5.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Barras): 2 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Digne-les-Bains): 6.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Barras): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 44.8▸

Days at or below 0 °C 106.5▸

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 45 days a year at or above 30 °C and 107 days at or below 0 °C, over 12 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the THOARD weather station, 5.1 km away at 732 m; the village itself is at 623 m. ^[11]

The village sits 109 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.21 °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 DIGNE LES BAINS, 7 km away at 554 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 69 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.57 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 972 mm of rain a year, spread over 87 days — about 11.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at THOARD, 5.1 km away at 732 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04021/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04021/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04021/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04021/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 04217
INSEE BPE 2025 — 04070
INSEE BPE 2025 — 04021
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
Sougé	36	480 km NW	140	14.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 14 % · humidity 86 %
Pouylebon	32	471 km W	143	14.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 9 % · humidity 43 %
Bourrou	24	449 km W	139	15.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Neuvy-le-Barrois	18	389 km NW	147	16.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 43 % · humidity 86 %
Moncaup	64	500 km W	156	15.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 38 % · winter 0 %
Lannecaube	64	512 km W	145	15.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 7 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Neuvy-le-Barrois	18	389 km NW	147	16.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 43 % · humidity 86 %
Bourrou	24	449 km W	139	15.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Pouylebon	32	471 km W	143	14.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 9 % · humidity 43 %
Sougé	36	480 km NW	140	14.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 14 % · humidity 86 %
Moncaup	64	500 km W	156	15.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 38 % · winter 0 %
Lannecaube	64	512 km W	145	15.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · 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 Barras'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
Beynes	04	14 km SE	120	12	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Montrond	05	43 km NW	90	15.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Valernes	04	21 km NW	245	29.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Barret-sur-Méouge	05	35 km NW	193	17.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Méreuil	05	44 km NW	108	15.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Canavaggia	2B	311 km SE	123	11.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

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