Malaussène

Alpes-Maritimes · CC Alpes d'Azur · INSEE 06078

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

Few services 33/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 81 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Malaussène (INSEE 06078) is in Alpes-Maritimes (06), part of CC Alpes d'Azur. Population 326 (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/06078-malaussene

Vitality score

Vitality score 33/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 81 % of the 17,971 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.46	5	2.29

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (L'ABLE). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE MALAUSSENE). ^[3]

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

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

1 × Hairdresser. ^[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, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[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	1	L'ABLE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE MALAUSSENE	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	1	MALAUSSENE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE MALAUSSÈNE	INSEE BPE 1 [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		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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

1968: 114 2023: 326 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 265 (2012) → 326 (2023): 23 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 129 (1990) → 326 (2023): 152.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 199, of which 27.1 % second homes and 1.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 2.9 km WPharmacy — 2.9 km WBakery — 5.6 km NFood shop — 5.6 km N 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 (Clans): 5.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Clans): 5.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Villars-sur-Var): 2.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Villars-sur-Var): 2.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Malaussène): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.7

Days at or below 0 °C 7.4▸

Muggy days a summer 9.1

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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 7 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ASCROS weather station, 9.3 km away at 1,173 m; the village itself is at 353 m. ^[11]

The village sits 820 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 9 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ASCROS, 9.3 km away at 1,173 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 820 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 896 mm of rain a year, spread over 73 days — about 12.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at VILLARS-SUR-VAR, 3.4 km away at 380 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 — 06078/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06078/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06078/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06078/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 06042
INSEE BPE 2025 — 06158
INSEE BPE 2025 — 06078
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
Betchat	09	502 km W	355	31.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 16 % · humidity 71 %
Montbrun-des-Corbières	11	367 km W	343	30.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Camplong-d'Aude	11	372 km W	389	35.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Llauro	66	387 km W	311	29	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Étienne-d'Albagnan	34	346 km W	302	28.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %
Oms	66	391 km W	364	37.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Étienne-d'Albagnan	34	346 km W	302	28.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %
Montbrun-des-Corbières	11	367 km W	343	30.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Camplong-d'Aude	11	372 km W	389	35.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Llauro	66	387 km W	311	29	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Oms	66	391 km W	364	37.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Betchat	09	502 km W	355	31.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 16 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Malaussène'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
Oms	66	391 km W	364	37.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Sainte-Colombe-sur-l'Hers	11	431 km W	441	43.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Volpajola	2B	238 km SE	418	44.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Ladern-sur-Lauquet	11	396 km W	248	19.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Val de Lambronne	11	426 km W	180	19.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Seurin-de-Cadourne	33	645 km W	705	37.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %

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