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Chanousse

Hautes-Alpes · CC du Sisteronais-Buëch · INSEE 05033

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 9.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 42 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Chanousse (INSEE 05033) is in Hautes-Alpes (05), part of CC du Sisteronais-Buëch. Population 39 (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/05033-chanousse

Vitality score

Vitality score 9.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 42 % of the 3,228 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.8108
Housing mix050

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 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”.

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]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 30 peak 2012: 61 2023: 39 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 61 (2012) → 39 (2023): -36.1 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 30 (1990) → 39 (2023): 30 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 53, of which 56.6 % second homes and 1.9 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 4.2 km E (Trescléoux)Food shop — 5.6 km SE (Orpierre)GP — 8.9 km NE (Serres)Bakery — 9.0 km E (Garde-Colombe)Pharmacy — 9.5 km NE (Serres)
Primary school — 4.2 km EFood shop — 5.6 km SEGP — 8.9 km NEBakery — 9.0 km EPharmacy — 9.5 km NE 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 (Garde-Colombe): 9 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Orpierre): 5.6 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Serres): 8.9 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Serres): 9.5 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Trescléoux): 4.2 km to the east (straight line). [11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 38 days a year at or above 30 °C and 111 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the LARAGNE MONTEGLIN weather station, 11.7 km away at 565 m; the village itself is at 778 m. [12]

The village sits 213 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 LARAGNE MONTEGLIN, 11.7 km away at 565 m, over 29 summers. [12]

That station sits 213 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 878 mm of rain a year, spread over 86 days — about 10.2 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at SERRES, 8.5 km away at 652 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 — 05033/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05033/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05033/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05033/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05053
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05097
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05166
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05172
  12. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Valavoire0434 km E395.6No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 11 % · humidity 100 %
Montguers2617 km SW393.3No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Sivergues8462 km S395.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Poggio-Marinaccio2B367 km SE3811.8No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 0 % · humidity 57 %
Barrancoueu65457 km W409.8No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
La Chambonie42216 km NW392.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 10 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Montguers2617 km SW393.3No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Valavoire0434 km E395.6No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 11 % · humidity 100 %
Sivergues8462 km S395.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
La Chambonie42216 km NW392.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 10 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Poggio-Marinaccio2B367 km SE3811.8No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 38 % · winter 0 % · humidity 57 %
Barrancoueu65457 km W409.8No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 18 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Chanousse'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Pierre-Avez0514 km SE3511.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Montréal-les-Sources2629 km W263.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Étoile-Saint-Cyrice055.0 km SW234.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Moydans0513 km W385.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Revest-Saint-Martin0441 km S796.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Montclus057.0 km N5417.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %