Puy-Sanières

Identity

Puy-Sanières (INSEE 05111) is in Hautes-Alpes (05), part of CC Serre-Ponçon. Population 288 (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/05111-puy-sanieres

Vitality score

Vitality score 25.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 66 % of the 17,742 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]

2 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE PUY-SANIÈRES). ^[3]

1 × Swimming pool (ATTERRISSAGE ET BAIGNADE E P A F CENTRE DES FINANCES). ^[3]

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

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. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 231 (2012) → 288 (2023): 24.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 106 (1990) → 288 (2023): 171.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 236, of which 38.1 % second homes and 1.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Embrun): 3.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Crots): 3 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Embrun): 3.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Savines-le-Lac): 4.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Puy-Saint-Eusèbe): 3 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

An average of 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 122 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the EMBRUN weather station, 5.9 km away at 873 m; the village itself is at 1,172 m. ^[12]

The village sits 299 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 EMBRUN, 5.9 km away at 873 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 299 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 739 mm of rain a year, spread over 85 days — about 8.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at EMBRUN, 5.9 km away at 873 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05111/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05111/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05111/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05111/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05046
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05045
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05164
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 05108
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024