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Piégut

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence · CC Serre-Ponçon Val d'Avance · INSEE 04150

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

Few services 23.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 72 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Piégut (INSEE 04150) is in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (04), part of CC Serre-Ponçon Val d'Avance. Population 201 (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/04150-piegut

Vitality score

Vitality score 23.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 72 % of the 15,929 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
Education0.63106.32
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend11010
Housing mix0.6653.29

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 0 of 4
Public services 0 of 1
Culture 0 of 2
Sport 0 of 2
Everyday services 1 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 PIEGUT). [3]

1 × Hairdresser (CELINE COIFFURE). [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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)1ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PIEGUTINSEE BPE 1 [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]
Hairdresser1CELINE COIFFUREINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 65 2023: 201 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 149 (2012) → 201 (2023): 34.9 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 86 (1990) → 201 (2023): 133.7 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 117, of which 17.1 % second homes and 11.1 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmFood shop — 4.4 km NE (Remollon)Bakery — 5.3 km E (Théus)Pharmacy — 5.9 km W (Tallard)GP — 6.1 km W (Tallard)
In the commune Primary school Food shop — 4.4 km NEBakery — 5.3 km EPharmacy — 5.9 km WGP — 6.1 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 (Théus): 5.3 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Remollon): 4.4 km to the north-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Tallard): 6.1 km to the west (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Tallard): 5.9 km to the west (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Piégut): 0 km to the south-east (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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 102 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the TURRIERS weather station, 6.7 km away at 1,020 m; the village itself is at 1,043 m. [12]

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

Humidity measured at LA MOTTE DU CAIRE, 16 km away at 665 m, over 18 summers. [12]

That station sits 378 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, 6.7 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 — 04150/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04150/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04150/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04150/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05171
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05115
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05170
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 04150
  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
Ardenais18382 km NW20518.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 47 % · humidity 57 %
Vic-de-Chassenay21365 km NW20714.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 43 % · humidity 93 %
Beaumont-Pied-de-Bœuf53634 km NW20318.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 15 % · humidity 93 %
Sourniac15312 km W19517.7No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 45 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Antonin-de-Sommaire27641 km NW21618.8No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 49 %
Escandolières12301 km W21215.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Escandolières12301 km W21215.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Sourniac15312 km W19517.7No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 45 % · humidity 93 %
Vic-de-Chassenay21365 km NW20714.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 43 % · humidity 93 %
Ardenais18382 km NW20518.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 47 % · humidity 57 %
Beaumont-Pied-de-Bœuf53634 km NW20318.6No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 15 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Antonin-de-Sommaire27641 km NW21618.8No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 77 % · winter 49 %

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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 Piégut'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
Durmignat63318 km NW2148.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Chassignieu38127 km NW22512.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Agnat43233 km NW1706.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Mary-le-Plain15248 km W1889No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Surjoux-Lhopital01177 km N13810.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Privat-du-Dragon43227 km W16915.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %