Massoins

Alpes-Maritimes · CC Alpes d'Azur · INSEE 06082

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

No daily shops 13.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 38 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Massoins (INSEE 06082) is in Alpes-Maritimes (06), part of CC Alpes d'Azur. Population 138 (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/06082-massoins

Vitality score

Vitality score 13.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 38 % of the 13,414 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.11	10	1.08
Housing mix	0.28	5	1.41

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 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”.

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

2 × Restaurant (DG CONSULTING). ^[3,4]

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, 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	2	DG CONSULTING	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
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

1968: 59 peak 1990: 227 2023: 138 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 111 (2012) → 138 (2023): 24.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 227 (1990) → 138 (2023): -39.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 128, of which 35.9 % second homes and 5.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 1.6 km SPharmacy — 2.4 km WGP — 2.5 km WBakery — 4.1 km NFood shop — 4.1 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): 4.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Clans): 4.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Villars-sur-Var): 2.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Villars-sur-Var): 2.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Malaussène): 1.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 17.9

Days at or below 0 °C 9.5▸

Muggy days a summer 6.6

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 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 10 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 442 m. ^[11]

The village sits 731 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 7 days a summer. ^[11]

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

That station sits 731 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, 3.1 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 — 06082/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06082/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06082/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06082/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
Chaley	01	257 km NW	129	17.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 9 % · humidity 64 %
Parfondeval	02	683 km N	143	13.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 15 %
Eyzahut	26	182 km NW	151	20.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 51 % · humidity 57 %
Collonge-en-Charollais	71	362 km NW	151	16	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 61 % · humidity 71 %
Murbach	68	443 km N	164	22.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 26 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Ferriol	11	413 km W	118	12.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 76 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Eyzahut	26	182 km NW	151	20.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 51 % · humidity 57 %
Chaley	01	257 km NW	129	17.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 9 % · humidity 64 %
Collonge-en-Charollais	71	362 km NW	151	16	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 61 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Ferriol	11	413 km W	118	12.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 76 % · humidity 79 %
Murbach	68	443 km N	164	22.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 26 % · humidity 57 %
Parfondeval	02	683 km N	143	13.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 15 %

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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 Massoins'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
Pégairolles-de-l'Escalette	34	305 km W	151	10.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Villefort	11	426 km W	88	8.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Mendive	64	672 km W	172	27.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Vignale	2B	241 km SE	222	10.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Greffeil	11	395 km W	100	15.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Bouilh-Péreuilh	65	563 km W	130	15.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

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