Le Noyer

Identity

Le Noyer (INSEE 05095) is in Hautes-Alpes (05), part of CC Champsaur-Valgaudemar. Population 310 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/05095-le-noyer

Vitality score

Vitality score 27.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 69 % of the 17,943 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

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

1 × Restaurant (AU DRAC MIAM). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE LE NOYER). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (DEFINI'TIF). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 271 (2012) → 310 (2023): 14.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 243 (1990) → 310 (2023): 27.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 289, of which 37.7 % second homes and 10.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Saint-Bonnet-en-Champsaur): 5.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Aubessagne): 3.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Bonnet-en-Champsaur): 5.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Bonnet-en-Champsaur): 5.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Poligny): 2.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

An average of 8 days a year at or above 30 °C and 116 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ST-BONNET CHAMPSAUR weather station, 5.1 km away at 1,005 m; the village itself is at 1,129 m. ^[11]

The village sits 124 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. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at GAP, 14.5 km away at 885 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 244 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.57 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 1,087 mm of rain a year, spread over 97 days — about 11.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ST-BONNET CHAMPSAUR, 5.1 km away at 1,005 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05095/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05095/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05095/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05095/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05132
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05039
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05104
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024