Sausses

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence · CC Alpes-Provence-Verdon "Sources de lumière" · INSEE 04202

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

Few services 22.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 81 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sausses (INSEE 04202) is in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (04), part of CC Alpes-Provence-Verdon "Sources de lumière". Population 131 (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/04202-sausses

Vitality score

Vitality score 22.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 81 % of the 12,956 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.18	5	0.92

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 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 × Restaurant (LA GUERITE). ^[3,4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SAUSSES). ^[3]

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. ^[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	1	LA GUERITE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SAUSSES	INSEE BPE 1 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 71 2023: 131 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 119 (2012) → 131 (2023): 10.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 65 (1990) → 131 (2023): 101.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 142, of which 40.8 % second homes and 9.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.8 km NEFood shop — 4.8 km SPharmacy — 6.9 km SBakery — 7.0 km SGP — 7.1 km S 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 (Entrevaux): 7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Entrevaux): 4.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Entrevaux): 7.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Entrevaux): 6.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Daluis): 2.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 46.5▸

Days at or below 0 °C 42.6

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 47 days a year at or above 30 °C and 43 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the MEAILLES_SAPC weather station, 12.4 km away at 1,090 m; the village itself is at 663 m. ^[10]

The village sits 427 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. ^[10]

An average of 940 mm of rain a year, spread over 80 days — about 11.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ENTREVAUX, 7 km away at 475 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 — 04202/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04202/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04202/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04202/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 04076
INSEE BPE 2025 — 06053
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
Saint-Jurs	04	48 km W	140	17.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 56 % · winter 96 %
Le Saix	05	92 km NW	126	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 0 %
Saint-Andéol-de-Berg	07	189 km W	134	12.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 92 %
Pigna	2B	232 km SE	128	23.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 10 % · winter 43 %
Cussac	15	324 km W	117	14.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 3 % · winter 9 %
Vailhan	34	284 km W	142	21.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Jurs	04	48 km W	140	17.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 56 % · winter 96 %
Le Saix	05	92 km NW	126	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 0 %
Saint-Andéol-de-Berg	07	189 km W	134	12.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 85 % · winter 92 %
Pigna	2B	232 km SE	128	23.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 10 % · winter 43 %
Vailhan	34	284 km W	142	21.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 86 %
Cussac	15	324 km W	117	14.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 3 % · winter 9 %

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