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Gigors

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence · CC du Sisteronais-Buëch · INSEE 04093

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 11.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 52 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Gigors (INSEE 04093) is in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (04), part of CC du Sisteronais-Buëch. Population 58 (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/04093-gigors

Vitality score

Vitality score 11.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 52 % of the 5,903 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.99109.87
Housing mix050

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 1 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING L'AMANDIER). [3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite1CAMPING L'AMANDIERINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 29 peak 2012: 60 2023: 58 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 60 (2012) → 58 (2023): -3.3 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 39 (1990) → 58 (2023): 48.7 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 75, of which 54.7 % second homes and 1.3 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 2.4 km S (Turriers)Food shop — 5.7 km N (Remollon)Bakery — 5.8 km NE (Théus)GP — 7.7 km NE (Espinasses)Pharmacy — 7.7 km NE (Espinasses)
Primary school — 2.4 km SFood shop — 5.7 km NBakery — 5.8 km NEGP — 7.7 km NEPharmacy — 7.7 km NE 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 (Théus): 5.8 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Remollon): 5.7 km to the north (straight line). [9]

GP (Espinasses): 7.7 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Espinasses): 7.7 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Turriers): 2.4 km to the south (straight line). [11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 83 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the TURRIERS weather station, 2.3 km away at 1,020 m; the village itself is at 868 m. [12]

The village sits 152 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. [12]

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

Humidity measured at LA MOTTE DU CAIRE, 14.5 km away at 665 m, over 18 summers. [12]

That station sits 203 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.57 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [12]

An average of 798 mm of rain a year, spread over 86 days — about 9.3 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at TURRIERS, 2.3 km away at 1,020 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04093/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04093/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04093/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04093/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05171
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05115
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05050
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 04222
  12. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Michel34230 km W6011.8No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Felce2B350 km SE5411.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 78 % · humidity 71 %
Val-Maravel2651 km W559.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 28 % · humidity 100 %
Laval-sur-Doulon43230 km NW595.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Novale2B352 km SE574No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 21 %
Le Chambon07154 km W582.3No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Val-Maravel2651 km W559.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 28 % · humidity 100 %
Le Chambon07154 km W582.3No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Laval-sur-Doulon43230 km NW595.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Michel34230 km W6011.8No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Felce2B350 km SE5411.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 78 % · humidity 71 %
Novale2B352 km SE574No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 21 %

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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 Gigors'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Laval-sur-Doulon43230 km NW595.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Sallagriffon0684 km SE475.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Faucon-du-Caire046.0 km SW6010.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Julien-des-Chazes43215 km W528.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Valouse2677 km W4119.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Arey3861 km NW7111.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %