Monêtier-Allemont

Hautes-Alpes · CC du Sisteronais-Buëch · INSEE 05078

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

Few services 29.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 75 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Monêtier-Allemont (INSEE 05078) is in Hautes-Alpes (05), part of CC du Sisteronais-Buëch. Population 302 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[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 29.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 75 % of the 17,879 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.82	10	8.25
Housing mix	0.75	5	3.73

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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”.

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

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (J.L.E). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (MONETIER ALLEMONT AP). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	J.L.E	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE MONETIER ALLEMONT	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	MONETIER ALLEMONT AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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: 285 peak 2007: 317 2023: 302 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 305 (2012) → 302 (2023): -1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 228 (1990) → 302 (2023): 32.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 173, of which 12.7 % second homes and 11 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 5.7 km NGP — 6.9 km NEPharmacy — 7.0 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 (Barcillonnette): 5.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Monêtier-Allemont): 0.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (La Saulce): 6.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (La Saulce): 7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Monêtier-Allemont): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 37.3

Days at or below 0 °C 93.4

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 37 days a year at or above 30 °C and 93 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the VITROLLES weather station, 2.6 km away at 595 m; the village itself is at 548 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at TALLARD, 10.2 km away at 593 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 756 mm of rain a year, spread over 78 days — about 9.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at VITROLLES, 2.6 km away at 595 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05078/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05078/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05078/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05078/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 05013
INSEE BPE 2025 — 05078
INSEE BPE 2025 — 05162
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
Morvilliers	10	456 km N	273	29.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 39 % · humidity 86 %
Orglandes	50	793 km NW	346	28	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 8 % · winter 15 % · humidity 93 %
Nettancourt	55	505 km N	242	25.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 39 % · humidity 86 %
Essey	21	332 km N	315	25.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Lasserre-de-Prouille	11	338 km W	292	25.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 0 % · humidity 0 %
Cussy-les-Forges	89	374 km NW	322	38.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Essey	21	332 km N	315	25.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Lasserre-de-Prouille	11	338 km W	292	25.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 0 % · humidity 0 %
Cussy-les-Forges	89	374 km NW	322	38.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Morvilliers	10	456 km N	273	29.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 39 % · humidity 86 %
Nettancourt	55	505 km N	242	25.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 39 % · humidity 86 %
Orglandes	50	793 km NW	346	28	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 8 % · winter 15 % · 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 Monêtier-Allemont'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
Voissant	38	123 km N	246	12.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Revest-des-Brousses	04	51 km SW	267	35.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Ongles	04	43 km SW	358	32.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Montlaur-en-Diois	26	49 km NW	134	23.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Aurel	26	62 km NW	271	25.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Barsac	26	64 km NW	154	26.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

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