Méreuil

Hautes-Alpes · CC du Sisteronais-Buëch · INSEE 05076

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school.

No daily shops 15.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 58 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Méreuil (INSEE 05076) is in Hautes-Alpes (05), part of CC du Sisteronais-Buëch. Population 108 (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.

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Vitality score

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

Confidence: high.

Better served than 58 % of the 11,270 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	25	0
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.54	10	5.38
Housing mix	0.27	5	1.34

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LES BONS PETITS PLATS). ^[3,4]

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, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	1	LES BONS PETITS PLATS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE 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: 95 2023: 108 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 88 (2012) → 108 (2023): 22.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 104 (1990) → 108 (2023): 3.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 82, of which 36.6 % second homes and 9.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

GP — 3.9 km NPrimary school — 4.0 km SWBakery — 4.6 km NFood shop — 4.6 km NPharmacy — 4.8 km N 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 (Serres): 4.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Serres): 4.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Serres): 3.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Serres): 4.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Trescléoux): 4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 43.3

Days at or below 0 °C 103.4▸

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 43 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 LARAGNE MONTEGLIN weather station, 9.2 km away at 565 m; the village itself is at 685 m. ^[10]

The village sits 120 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 LARAGNE MONTEGLIN, 9.2 km away at 565 m, over 29 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 120 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 878 mm of rain a year, spread over 86 days — about 10.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at SERRES, 4.1 km away at 652 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 — 05076/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05076/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05076/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05076/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 05166
INSEE BPE 2025 — 05172
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
Grimault	89	387 km N	115	14.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 12 % · humidity 100 %
Hosta	64	564 km W	100	15.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Quissac-en-Quercy	46	318 km W	107	18	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 14 % · humidity 86 %
Escot	64	529 km W	118	14.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 15 % · humidity 36 %
Medeyrolles	63	189 km NW	113	16.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 3 % · winter 23 % · humidity 100 %
Latronche	19	294 km W	112	13.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 26 % · winter 51 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Medeyrolles	63	189 km NW	113	16.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 3 % · winter 23 % · humidity 100 %
Latronche	19	294 km W	112	13.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 26 % · winter 51 %
Quissac-en-Quercy	46	318 km W	107	18	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 14 % · humidity 86 %
Grimault	89	387 km N	115	14.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 12 % · humidity 100 %
Escot	64	529 km W	118	14.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 15 % · humidity 36 %
Hosta	64	564 km W	100	15.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Méreuil'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-Antonin-sur-Bayon	13	97 km S	126	13.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Salérans	05	16 km S	78	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Villeperdrix	26	36 km W	103	14.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Ponet-et-Saint-Auban	26	55 km NW	141	13.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Revest-Saint-Martin	04	43 km S	79	6.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Montrond	05	1.1 km SE	90	15.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

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