Montbrand

Identity

Montbrand (INSEE 05080) is in Hautes-Alpes (05), part of CC Buëch-Dévoluy. Population 75 (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/05080-montbrand

Vitality score

Vitality score 12.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 50 % of the 7,944 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

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]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 67 (2012) → 75 (2023): 11.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 49 (1990) → 75 (2023): 53.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 89, of which 46.1 % second homes and 5.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Aspres-sur-Buëch): 9.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lus-la-Croix-Haute): 8.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Beaurières): 8.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Lus-la-Croix-Haute): 8.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (La Faurie): 5.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

An average of 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 145 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the LA FAURIE weather station, 6.1 km away at 825 m; the village itself is at 986 m. ^[12]

The village sits 161 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 LA FAURIE, 6.1 km away at 825 m, over 27 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 161 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 957 mm of rain a year, spread over 95 days — about 10.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LA FAURIE, 6.1 km away at 825 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

What property sold for

No price figures: fewer than five comparable sales were registered here between 2021 and 2025. A median of two sales is not a median. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05080/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05080/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05080/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05080/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05010
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 26168
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 26040
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05055
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
13. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025