Valdoule

Identity

Valdoule (INSEE 05024) is in Hautes-Alpes (05), part of CC du Sisteronais-Buëch. Population 204 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2017-07-01 from 2 former communes: Montmorin (05088), Sainte-Marie (05150). ^[3]

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/05024-valdoule

Vitality score

Vitality score 25.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 79 % of the 16,069 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. ^[4,5]

3 × Restaurant (LE LOUIS PHILIPPE · FERME AUBERGE DU VAL D'OULE · MICKY MIKE BURGER). ^[4,5]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (VINCENT GAUTIER, MÉDECIN). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (MONTMORIN AP). ^[4]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE INTERCOMMUNALE DE LA VALLEE DE L'OULE COMMUNAUTÉ DE COMMUNES DU SISTERONAIS BUËCH). ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), Pharmacy. ^[4,5]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 209 (2012) → 204 (2023): -2.4 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 188 (1990) → 204 (2023): 8.5 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 270, of which 57.4 % second homes and 3.7 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Saint-Dizier-en-Diois): 5.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (La Motte-Chalancon): 10.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Valdoule): 2.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Pharmacy (Rosans): 9.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[12]

Primary school (Valdrôme): 6.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[13]

Climate

An average of 39 days a year at or above 30 °C and 100 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[14]

Measured at the ROSANS weather station, 9.8 km away at 625 m; the village itself is at 698 m. ^[14]

The village sits 73 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. ^[14]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[14]

Humidity measured at ROSANS, 9.8 km away at 625 m, over 29 summers. ^[14]

That station sits 73 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.57 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[14]

An average of 810 mm of rain a year, spread over 86 days — about 9.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[14]

Rainfall measured at ROSANS, 9.8 km away at 625 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[14]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05024/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE COG 2026
4. INSEE BPE 2025
5. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05024/2012
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05024/1990
8. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05024/logement/2023
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 26300
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 26215
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05024
12. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05126
13. INSEE BPE 2025 — 26361
14. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024