Les Ferres
No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.
No daily shops 12.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 44 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.
Identity
Les Ferres (INSEE 06061) is in Alpes-Maritimes (06), part of CA de Sophia Antipolis. Population 93 (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/06061-les-ferres
Vitality score
Vitality score 12.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).
Confidence: high.
Better served than 44 % of the 9,855 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 | 10 | 0 |
| Health | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Public & culture | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Population trend | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Housing mix | 0.06 | 5 | 0.29 |
Services
What is here, at a glance
No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [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, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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) | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 [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
Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.
Trajectory
Population 96 (2012) → 93 (2023): -3.1 % over 10 years. [5,1]
Population 36 (1990) → 93 (2023): 158.3 % over 30 years. [6,1]
Dwellings (2023): 104, of which 47.1 % second homes and 9.6 % vacant. [7]
Access and surroundings
Which way the everyday services lie
Bakery (Pierrefeu): 1.9 km to the north (straight line). [8]
Food shop (Pierrefeu): 1.9 km to the north (straight line). [8]
GP (Bouyon): 3.4 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]
Pharmacy (Gilette): 5.7 km to the east (straight line). [10]
Primary school (Pierrefeu): 1.9 km to the north (straight line). [8]
Climate
Where this sits nationally
An average of 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 33 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]
Measured at the BOUYON weather station, 3.3 km away at 723 m; the village itself is at 633 m. [11]
The village sits 90 m below 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 BOUYON, 3.3 km away at 723 m, over 10 summers. [11]
That station sits 90 m above 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 1,136 mm of rain a year, spread over 72 days — about 15.8 mm on a day it rains. [11]
Rainfall measured at BOUYON, 3.3 km away at 723 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 — 06061/2023
- INSEE density grid 2026
- INSEE BPE 2025
- INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
- INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06061/2012
- INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06061/1990
- INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06061/logement/2023
- INSEE BPE 2025 — 06097
- INSEE BPE 2025 — 06022
- INSEE BPE 2025 — 06066
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innimond | 01 | 246 km NW | 95 | 8 | No daily shops | Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 27 % · humidity 100 % |
| Arbon | 31 | 521 km W | 93 | 10.4 | No daily shops | Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 65 % · humidity 79 % |
| Olcani | 2B | 218 km SE | 96 | 11.6 | No daily shops | Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 59 % · humidity 50 % |
| L'Hospitalet | 04 | 115 km W | 99 | 12.3 | No daily shops | Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 46 % · winter 0 % |
| Lambruisse | 04 | 57 km NW | 92 | 11.8 | No daily shops | Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 0 % · humidity 100 % |
| Oze | 05 | 126 km NW | 103 | 12.2 | No daily shops | Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 0 % · humidity 100 % |
Order by distance instead
| Commune | Dept | Distance | Population | Score | Band | Climate vs here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lambruisse | 04 | 57 km NW | 92 | 11.8 | No daily shops | Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 0 % · humidity 100 % |
| L'Hospitalet | 04 | 115 km W | 99 | 12.3 | No daily shops | Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 46 % · winter 0 % |
| Oze | 05 | 126 km NW | 103 | 12.2 | No daily shops | Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 0 % · humidity 100 % |
| Olcani | 2B | 218 km SE | 96 | 11.6 | No daily shops | Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 59 % · humidity 50 % |
| Innimond | 01 | 246 km NW | 95 | 8 | No daily shops | Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 27 % · humidity 100 % |
| Arbon | 31 | 521 km W | 93 | 10.4 | No daily shops | Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 65 % · humidity 79 % |
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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 Les Ferres'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prunet | 07 | 241 km W | 134 | 10.3 | No daily shops | Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 % |
| Nocario | 2B | 245 km SE | 74 | 11.8 | No daily shops | Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 % |
| Vauclaix | 58 | 454 km NW | 134 | 6.1 | No daily shops | Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 % |
| Garanou | 09 | 448 km W | 143 | 3.9 | No daily shops | Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 % |
| Essarois | 21 | 470 km N | 84 | 7.5 | No daily shops | Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 % |
| Vèbre | 09 | 450 km W | 113 | 15.5 | No daily shops | Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 % |
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