Champoléon

Identity

Champoléon (INSEE 05032) is in Hautes-Alpes (05), part of CC Champsaur-Valgaudemar. Population 144 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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/05032-champoleon

Vitality score

Vitality score 22.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 81 % of the 13,781 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. ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (L'AUBERGE DES ECRINS). ^[3,4]

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hotel.

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]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 136 (2012) → 144 (2023): 5.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 102 (1990) → 144 (2023): 41.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 173, of which 50.3 % second homes and 9.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Orcières): 5.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Orcières): 5.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Orcières): 5.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Orcières): 5.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Jean-Saint-Nicolas): 6.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

An average of 0 days a year at or above 30 °C and 81 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ORCIERES-NIVOSE weather station, 5.8 km away at 2,280 m; the village itself is at 1,277 m. ^[10]

The village sits 1,003 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]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ORCIERES-NIVOSE, 5.8 km away at 2,280 m, over 16 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 1,003 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.57 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 1,229 mm of rain a year, spread over 109 days — about 11.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CHAMPOLEON, 0.1 km away at 1,275 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05032/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05032/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05032/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05032/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05096
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05145
10. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024