Val d'Oronaye

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence · CC Vallée de l'Ubaye - Serre-Ponçon · INSEE 04120

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

Few services 28/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 98 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Val d'Oronaye (INSEE 04120) is in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (04), part of CC Vallée de l'Ubaye - Serre-Ponçon. Population 87 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2016-01-01 from 1 former commune: Larche (04100). ^[3]

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/04120-val-d-oronaye

Vitality score

Vitality score 28/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 98 % of the 9,243 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	0.29	25	7.21
Social	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.23	10	2.31
Housing mix	0.02	5	0.1

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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”.

A food shop and somewhere to eat or drink, but no school. ^[4,5]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[4,5]

1 × Restaurant (SARL MARCOCORINNE). ^[4,5]

1 × Café / bar (AU RELAIS D'ITALIE). ^[5]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LARCHE AP). ^[4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING DOMAINE DES MARMOTTES). ^[4,5]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2		INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,5]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	1	SARL MARCOCORINNE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Café / bar	1	AU RELAIS D'ITALIE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	LARCHE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Campsite	1	CAMPING DOMAINE DES MARMOTTES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 159 2023: 87 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 121 (2012) → 87 (2023): -28.1 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 119 (1990) → 87 (2023): -26.9 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 149, of which 49 % second homes and 19.5 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 5.5 km NBakery — 5.7 km NWPrimary school — 5.8 km NWPharmacy — 8.1 km SWGP — 14.1 km NW 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 (Saint-Paul-sur-Ubaye): 5.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Saint-Paul-sur-Ubaye): 5.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Vars): 14.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Jausiers): 8.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Saint-Paul-sur-Ubaye): 5.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.2

Days at or below 0 °C 174.5▸

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 175 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the JAUSIERS-ST ANNE weather station, 9.1 km away at 1,240 m; the village itself is at 1,538 m. ^[12]

The village sits 298 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. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at BARCELONNETTE, 13.9 km away at 1,155 m, over 27 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 383 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 689 mm of rain a year, spread over 74 days — about 9.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at JAUSIERS, 8.4 km away at 1,510 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04120/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04120/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04120/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04120/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 04193
INSEE BPE 2025 — 05177
INSEE BPE 2025 — 04096
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
Bouziès	46	409 km W	93	22	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 0 % · winter 0 %
Ciamannacce	2A	339 km SE	129	28.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 0 % · humidity 100 %
Le Mas	06	71 km S	97	18.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
La Rochette	04	63 km S	74	26.7	Few services	no figures
Ogliastro	2B	276 km SE	90	31.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 0 %
Minerve	34	348 km W	98	36.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Rochette	04	63 km S	74	26.7	Few services	no figures
Le Mas	06	71 km S	97	18.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Ogliastro	2B	276 km SE	90	31.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 0 %
Ciamannacce	2A	339 km SE	129	28.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 0 % · humidity 100 %
Minerve	34	348 km W	98	36.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Bouziès	46	409 km W	93	22	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 0 % · winter 0 %

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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 Val d'Oronaye'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
Saint-Denis-en-Margeride	48	265 km W	148	15.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Demandolx	04	70 km S	112	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Eulalie	48	266 km W	37	8.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Lambruisse	04	55 km SW	92	11.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Soleilhas	04	70 km S	95	6.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Cervières	05	44 km N	205	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

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