Bréziers

Identity

Bréziers (INSEE 05022) is in Hautes-Alpes (05), part of CC Serre-Ponçon Val d'Avance. Population 229 (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/05022-breziers

Vitality score

Vitality score 15.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 34 % of the 16,761 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

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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 201 (2012) → 229 (2023): 13.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 128 (1990) → 229 (2023): 78.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 167, of which 19.8 % second homes and 10.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Théus): 4.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Remollon): 4.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Espinasses): 5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Espinasses): 5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Rochebrune): 3.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

An average of 26 days a year at or above 30 °C and 142 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the TALLARD weather station, 13.5 km away at 593 m; the village itself is at 884 m. ^[12]

The village sits 291 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 TALLARD, 13.5 km away at 593 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 291 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 757 mm of rain a year, spread over 79 days — about 9.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at TALLARD, 13.5 km away at 593 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 — 05022/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05022/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05022/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05022/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05171
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05115
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05050
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05121
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024