Upaix

Hautes-Alpes · CC du Sisteronais-Buëch · INSEE 05173

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

Few services 21.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 32 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Upaix (INSEE 05173) is in Hautes-Alpes (05), part of CC du Sisteronais-Buëch. Population 494 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-25 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/05173-upaix

Vitality score

Vitality score 21.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 32 % of the 17,795 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.88	10	8.76
Housing mix	0.67	5	3.37

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

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

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE UPAIX-ROUREBEAU). ^[3]

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, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE UPAIX-ROUREBEAU	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	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 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

A market is recorded here, but no source gives the day. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 328 2023: 494 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 431 (2012) → 494 (2023): 14.6 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 359 (1990) → 494 (2023): 37.6 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 300, of which 16.3 % second homes and 7.3 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.5 km SFood shop — 4.4 km WGP — 5.5 km WPharmacy — 5.5 km W 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 (Le Poët): 2.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Laragne-Montéglin): 4.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Laragne-Montéglin): 5.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Laragne-Montéglin): 5.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Upaix): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 51.4▸

Days at or below 0 °C 91.9

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 51 days a year at or above 30 °C and 92 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the LARAGNE MONTEGLIN weather station, 7.7 km away at 565 m; the village itself is at 596 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at LARAGNE MONTEGLIN, 7.7 km away at 565 m, over 29 summers. ^[12]

An average of 849 mm of rain a year, spread over 84 days — about 10.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LARAGNE-MONTEGLIN, 5.1 km away at 575 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05173/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2024-10— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/8eb82503-543b-31ca-a97f-ccbc3643ff0b— “Marché à la Ferme des Riailles”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05173/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05173/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 05173/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 05103
INSEE BPE 2025 — 05070
INSEE BPE 2025 — 05173
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
Saint-Firmin-des-Bois	45	467 km NW	497	21.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 15 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Denis-le-Ferment	27	642 km NW	495	20.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 8 % · winter 47 %
Beyssac	19	373 km W	481	12.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 13 % · winter 46 % · humidity 64 %
Chennegy	10	462 km N	472	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 10 % · winter 38 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Jean-Froidmentel	41	541 km NW	505	20.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 18 % · winter 51 %
Castelnau-Valence	30	135 km W	469	23	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 41 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Castelnau-Valence	30	135 km W	469	23	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 41 % · humidity 64 %
Beyssac	19	373 km W	481	12.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 13 % · winter 46 % · humidity 64 %
Chennegy	10	462 km N	472	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 10 % · winter 38 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Firmin-des-Bois	45	467 km NW	497	21.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 15 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jean-Froidmentel	41	541 km NW	505	20.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 18 % · winter 51 %
Saint-Denis-le-Ferment	27	642 km NW	495	20.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 8 % · winter 47 %

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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 Upaix'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
Pierrerue	04	40 km S	529	30.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Beaurecueil	13	94 km S	585	27.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Salignac	04	19 km SE	678	34.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Lazer	05	5.3 km NW	345	14.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Entrepierres	04	16 km SE	414	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Sigonce	04	36 km S	419	38.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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