Saumane

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence · CC Haute-Provence - Pays de Banon · INSEE 04201

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

No daily shops 19.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 75 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saumane (INSEE 04201) is in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (04), part of CC Haute-Provence - Pays de Banon. Population 130 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 19.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 75 % of the 12,923 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	25	0
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.13	5	0.63

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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”.

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

1 × Café / bar (BARPACKER). ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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 SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	1	BARPACKER	INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 74 2023: 130 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 109 (2012) → 130 (2023): 19.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 80 (1990) → 130 (2023): 62.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 144, of which 43.8 % second homes and 11.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 7.5 km SWBakery — 7.6 km SWPrimary school — 7.6 km SWGP — 7.7 km SWPharmacy — 16.3 km SE 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 (Banon): 7.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Banon): 7.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Banon): 7.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Forcalquier): 16.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Banon): 7.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 33.9

Days at or below 0 °C 131▸

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 34 days a year at or above 30 °C and 131 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the BEVONS weather station, 16.1 km away at 520 m; the village itself is at 869 m. ^[10]

The village sits 349 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. ^[10]

An average of 1,022 mm of rain a year, spread over 82 days — about 12.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LARDIERS, 4.6 km away at 747 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04201/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04201/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04201/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04201/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 04018
INSEE BPE 2025 — 04088
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
Unac	09	349 km SW	127	15.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 97 % · winter 58 %
Eup	31	424 km W	139	13.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 46 % · winter 0 %
Curtil-sous-Burnand	71	289 km N	137	15.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 85 % · winter 4 %
Salles-et-Pratviel	31	434 km W	129	13.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 54 % · winter 31 %
Olmo	2B	349 km SE	138	18.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 59 % · winter 0 %
Propiac	26	45 km NW	131	12.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 46 % · winter 22 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Propiac	26	45 km NW	131	12.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 46 % · winter 22 %
Curtil-sous-Burnand	71	289 km N	137	15.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 85 % · winter 4 %
Olmo	2B	349 km SE	138	18.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 59 % · winter 0 %
Unac	09	349 km SW	127	15.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 97 % · winter 58 %
Eup	31	424 km W	139	13.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 46 % · winter 0 %
Salles-et-Pratviel	31	434 km W	129	13.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 54 % · winter 31 %

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