Châteauroux-les-Alpes

Hautes-Alpes · CC Serre-Ponçon · INSEE 05036

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Partly served 46.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 73 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Châteauroux-les-Alpes (INSEE 05036) is in Hautes-Alpes (05), part of CC Serre-Ponçon. Population 1,234 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/05036-chateauroux-les-alpes

Vitality score

Vitality score 46.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 73 % of the 13,052 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.75	20	14.97
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.47	5	2.33

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 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”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AUX PETITS GODON). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (EPICERIE DES LYS). ^[3,4]

4 × Restaurant (ARCELLI). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (BAR DES ALPES). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE CHATEAUROUX). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE DE CHÂTEAUROUX-LES-ALPES PLACE DE LA MAIRIE). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (FRIH NAWEL · SECRETS COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

3 × Campsite (CAMPING LES CARIAMAS · CAMPING LES PINS · CAMPING NEW RABIOUX). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 3 × Restaurant, 1 × Campsite.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	AUX PETITS GODON	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	EPICERIE DES LYS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	4	ARCELLI	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	BAR DES ALPES	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE CHATEAUROUX	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE DE CHÂTEAUROUX-LES-ALPES PLACE DE LA MAIRIE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	3	FRIH NAWEL · SECRETS COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	3	CAMPING LES CARIAMAS · CAMPING LES PINS · CAMPING NEW RABIOUX	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 683 2023: 1,234 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,116 (2012) → 1,234 (2023): 10.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 766 (1990) → 1,234 (2023): 61.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 840, of which 26.7 % second homes and 5.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 5.6 km SPharmacy — 5.8 km S 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 (Châteauroux-les-Alpes): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Châteauroux-les-Alpes): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Embrun): 5.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Embrun): 5.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Châteauroux-les-Alpes): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 20.9

Days at or below 0 °C 102.5▸

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 103 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the EMBRUN weather station, 4.9 km away at 873 m; the village itself is at 983 m. ^[10]

The village sits 110 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. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at EMBRUN, 4.9 km away at 873 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 110 m below 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 739 mm of rain a year, spread over 85 days — about 8.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at EMBRUN, 4.9 km away at 873 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05036/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05036/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05036/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05036/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 05036
INSEE BPE 2025 — 05046
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
Saint-Suliac	35	783 km NW	1,018	45	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Marsanne	26	130 km W	1,246	48.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 4 % · humidity 79 %
Le Tronchet	35	770 km NW	1,202	34.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 11 % · humidity 86 %
Bogève	74	176 km N	1,200	46.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
La Môle	83	157 km S	1,535	49.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 7 % · humidity 50 %
Correns	83	130 km S	886	59.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 24 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Correns	83	130 km S	886	59.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 24 % · humidity 79 %
Marsanne	26	130 km W	1,246	48.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 4 % · humidity 79 %
La Môle	83	157 km S	1,535	49.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 7 % · humidity 50 %
Bogève	74	176 km N	1,200	46.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Le Tronchet	35	770 km NW	1,202	34.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 11 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Suliac	35	783 km NW	1,018	45	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 0 % · 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 Châteauroux-les-Alpes'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
Saint-Christol	84	105 km SW	1,409	44.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Nancray	25	294 km N	1,308	49.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Soucht	57	487 km N	1,013	27.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Servoz	74	148 km N	1,169	45.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Villard	74	178 km N	947	42.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Farges	01	179 km N	1,082	34.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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