Villemus

Alpes-de-Haute-Provence · CC Haute-Provence - Pays de Banon · INSEE 04241

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

Few services 23.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 74 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Villemus (INSEE 04241) is in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (04), part of CC Haute-Provence - Pays de Banon. Population 192 (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/04241-villemus

Vitality score

Vitality score 23.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 74 % of the 15,741 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	0.74	5	3.69

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. ^[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	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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	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: 66 2023: 192 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 175 (2012) → 192 (2023): 9.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 99 (1990) → 192 (2023): 93.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 122, of which 13.1 % second homes and 9.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.6 km SBakery — 3.2 km NEFood shop — 4.0 km NWGP — 4.1 km NWPharmacy — 6.7 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 (Saint-Martin-les-Eaux): 3.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Reillanne): 4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Reillanne): 4.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Pierrevert): 6.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Montfuron): 2.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 25

Days at or below 0 °C 88.8

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 25 days a year at or above 30 °C and 89 days at or below 0 °C, over 12 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the REILLANNE weather station, 3.3 km away at 455 m; the village itself is at 575 m. ^[12]

The village sits 120 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 DAUPHIN, 7.8 km away at 427 m, over 21 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 148 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 773 mm of rain a year, spread over 70 days — about 11 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at REILLANNE, 3.3 km away at 455 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 — 04241/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04241/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04241/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 04241/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 04190
INSEE BPE 2025 — 04160
INSEE BPE 2025 — 04152
INSEE BPE 2025 — 04128
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
Lamberville	76	748 km NW	185	20.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 11 % · humidity 93 %
Mauran	31	384 km W	201	23.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 50 % · humidity 50 %
Pont-et-Massène	21	415 km N	187	21.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Domjulien	88	489 km N	178	16.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Aillières-Beauvoir	72	653 km NW	200	15.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 54 % · winter 70 %
Saint-Jean-des-Échelles	72	611 km NW	222	17.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Mauran	31	384 km W	201	23.8	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 50 % · humidity 50 %
Pont-et-Massène	21	415 km N	187	21.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Domjulien	88	489 km N	178	16.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jean-des-Échelles	72	611 km NW	222	17.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Aillières-Beauvoir	72	653 km NW	200	15.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 54 % · winter 70 %
Lamberville	76	748 km NW	185	20.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 11 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Villemus'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
Palhers	48	205 km W	200	9.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Heuilley-le-Grand	52	434 km N	188	10.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Rivière-les-Fosses	52	424 km N	180	9.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Villard-d'Héry	73	187 km N	270	24	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Chavéria	39	295 km N	201	14.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Melincourt	70	449 km N	224	9.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %

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