Curel

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence · CC Jabron-Lure-Vançon-Durance · INSEE 04067

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

Few services 27.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 99 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Curel (INSEE 04067) is in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (04), part of CC Jabron-Lure-Vançon-Durance. Population 65 (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 27.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 99 % of the 6,785 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.52	5	2.62

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 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 food shop, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (HELIOTROPE). ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	HELIOTROPE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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: 38 2023: 65 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 54 (2012) → 65 (2023): 20.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 37 (1990) → 65 (2023): 75.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 42, of which 23.8 % second homes and 2.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 1.8 km EPrimary school — 4.9 km NEBakery — 6.5 km NGP — 10.5 km WPharmacy — 17.6 km W 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 (Lachau): 6.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Curel): 1.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Séderon): 10.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Montbrun-les-Bains): 17.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Éourres): 4.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 40.9

Days at or below 0 °C 123.3▸

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 41 days a year at or above 30 °C and 123 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the BEVONS weather station, 15.9 km away at 520 m; the village itself is at 743 m. ^[13]

The village sits 223 m above 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. ^[13]

An average of 1,167 mm of rain a year, spread over 85 days — about 13.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at CHATEAUNEUF-MIRAVAIL, 5.3 km away at 660 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04067/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04067/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04067/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04067/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 26154
INSEE BPE 2025 — 04067
INSEE BPE 2025 — 26340
INSEE BPE 2025 — 26193
INSEE BPE 2025 — 05047
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
Cornay	08	572 km N	69	12.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 31 % · winter 8 %
Saint-Michel-de-Vax	81	309 km W	79	17	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 0 %
Sarlabous	65	450 km W	79	14.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 64 % · winter 18 %
Bois-de-Gand	39	295 km N	60	18.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 56 % · winter 12 %
Lamazière-Haute	19	306 km NW	65	6.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 13 % · winter 85 %
Sergenaux	39	301 km N	65	14.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 56 % · winter 20 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bois-de-Gand	39	295 km N	60	18.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 56 % · winter 12 %
Sergenaux	39	301 km N	65	14.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 56 % · winter 20 %
Lamazière-Haute	19	306 km NW	65	6.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 13 % · winter 85 %
Saint-Michel-de-Vax	81	309 km W	79	17	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 74 % · winter 0 %
Sarlabous	65	450 km W	79	14.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 64 % · winter 18 %
Cornay	08	572 km N	69	12.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 31 % · winter 8 %

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