Gilette

Alpes-Maritimes · Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur · INSEE 06066

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Partly served 42.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 54 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Gilette (INSEE 06066) is in Alpes-Maritimes (06), part of Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur. Population 1,627 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/06066-gilette

Vitality score

Vitality score 42.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 54 % of the 11,045 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.46	20	9.18
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.76	5	3.81

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA GILETTOISE). ^[3,4]

5 × Restaurant (LAUGIER RESTAURANT · TONTON PIZZA · L'ESTA'FETE · LE BAR DES CHASSEURS). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE GILETTE). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (MURIELLE GARDIN-HABAUZIT, MÉDECIN · MARIE CASTEL, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE L ESTERON). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (GILETTE AP). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (LE SALON BY SCL). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Library. ^[4,3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LA GILETTOISE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	5	LAUGIER RESTAURANT · TONTON PIZZA · L'ESTA'FETE · LE BAR DES CHASSEURS	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 9 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE GILETTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	MURIELLE GARDIN-HABAUZIT, MÉDECIN · MARIE CASTEL, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE L ESTERON	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	GILETTE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	LE SALON BY SCL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 521 2023: 1,627 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,516 (2012) → 1,627 (2023): 7.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,024 (1990) → 1,627 (2023): 58.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 869, of which 11.9 % second homes and 7.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, GP, Pharmacy Primary school — 0.5 km NWFood shop — 2.8 km E 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 (Gilette): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Roquette-sur-Var): 2.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Gilette): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Gilette): 0.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Gilette): 0.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14.2

Days at or below 0 °C 10.4▸

Muggy days a summer 8.1

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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 10 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LEVENS weather station, 3.8 km away at 691 m; the village itself is at 466 m. ^[10]

The village sits 225 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 8 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at LEVENS, 3.8 km away at 691 m, over 17 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 225 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.57 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 910 mm of rain a year, spread over 69 days — about 13.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LEVENS, 3.8 km away at 691 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06066/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06066/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06066/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06066/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 06066
INSEE BPE 2025 — 06109
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
Bueil	27	715 km NW	1,642	38.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 51 % · humidity 50 %
Fontaines	71	382 km NW	1,841	39.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 22 % · humidity 50 %
Oberbronn	67	567 km N	1,404	35.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 20 % · humidity 57 %
Rochegude	26	192 km W	1,678	39.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 74 % · humidity 57 %
Ginestas	11	352 km W	1,611	45.2	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 86 % · humidity 36 %
Oberhergheim	68	458 km N	1,315	35.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 19 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Rochegude	26	192 km W	1,678	39.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 74 % · humidity 57 %
Ginestas	11	352 km W	1,611	45.2	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 86 % · humidity 36 %
Fontaines	71	382 km NW	1,841	39.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 22 % · humidity 50 %
Oberhergheim	68	458 km N	1,315	35.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 19 % · humidity 57 %
Oberbronn	67	567 km N	1,404	35.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 20 % · humidity 57 %
Bueil	27	715 km NW	1,642	38.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 51 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Gilette'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
Salles-sur-Mer	17	693 km NW	2,465	51.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
La Jarne	17	695 km NW	2,637	48.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Christophe	17	687 km NW	1,422	43.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Rogatien	17	696 km NW	2,364	46	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Chalabre	11	427 km W	1,084	47.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Tanneron	83	37 km SW	1,750	43.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %

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