Saint-Laurent-du-Verdon

Identity

Saint-Laurent-du-Verdon (INSEE 04186) is in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (04), part of CA Durance-Lubéron-Verdon Agglomération. Population 82 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[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/04186-saint-laurent-du-verdon

Vitality score

Vitality score 17.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 82 % of the 8,714 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.

Services

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

2 × Restaurant (EMARIE · LA REMISE VILLAGGIO). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (LE MOULIN DU CHATEAU). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CIELA VILLAGE LA FARIGOULETTE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hotel.

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

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 89 (2012) → 82 (2023): -7.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 71 (1990) → 82 (2023): 15.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 114, of which 57.9 % second homes and 1.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Esparron-de-Verdon): 8 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Artignosc-sur-Verdon): 2.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Régusse): 9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Régusse): 9.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Artignosc-sur-Verdon): 2.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

An average of 61 days a year at or above 30 °C and 100 days at or below 0 °C, over 12 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the QUINSON weather station, 3 km away at 400 m; the village itself is at 465 m. ^[11]

The village sits 65 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at VALENSOLE, 13.9 km away at 600 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 135 m above 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 726 mm of rain a year, spread over 71 days — about 10.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at QUINSON, 3 km away at 400 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04186/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04186/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04186/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04186/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 04081
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 83005
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 83102
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024