Mas-Blanc-des-Alpilles

Bouches-du-Rhône · CC Vallée des Baux-Alpilles (CC VBA) · INSEE 13057

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

Few services 38.5/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 78 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Mas-Blanc-des-Alpilles (INSEE 13057) is in Bouches-du-Rhône (13), part of CC Vallée des Baux-Alpilles (CC VBA). Population 564 (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 · Commune website 2026-09-29.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/13057-mas-blanc-des-alpilles

Vitality score

Vitality score 38.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 78 % of the 17,408 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.56

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 1 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]

2 × Restaurant (LE PASSEUR · RISTORANTE MAMMA MIA). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE MARIE MAURON). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (MAS BLANC LES ALPILLES RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (A-J COIFFURE · L'ATELIER COIFFURE BY ELSA). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (HOTEL MISTRAL DE PROVENCE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Hairdresser.

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]
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	LE PASSEUR · RISTORANTE MAMMA MIA	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE MARIE MAURON	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	MAS BLANC LES ALPILLES RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	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	2	A-J COIFFURE · L'ATELIER COIFFURE BY ELSA	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	HOTEL MISTRAL DE PROVENCE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 136 2023: 564 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 507 (2012) → 564 (2023): 11.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 348 (1990) → 564 (2023): 62.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 273, of which 4.4 % second homes and 6.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 0.7 km NEPharmacy — 2.1 km WBakery — 2.2 km NEFood shop — 2.7 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 (Saint-Rémy-de-Provence): 2.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Étienne-du-Grès): 2.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Étienne-du-Grès): 0.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Étienne-du-Grès): 2.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Mas-Blanc-des-Alpilles): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 57.5▸

Days at or below 0 °C 30.8

Muggy days a summer 5.8

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 58 days a year at or above 30 °C and 31 days at or below 0 °C, over 14 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ST-REMY-DE-PROVENCE weather station, 6.3 km away at 49 m; the village itself is at 16 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at EYRAGUES, 9 km away at 17 m, over 28 summers. ^[11]

An average of 601 mm of rain a year, spread over 57 days — about 10.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ST-REMY-DE-PROVENCE, 6.3 km away at 49 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 13057/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 13057/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 13057/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 13057/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 13100
INSEE BPE 2025 — 13094
INSEE BPE 2025 — 13057
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
Ancemont	55	589 km N	527	27.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 46 % · humidity 64 %
La Sauvetat	63	241 km NW	737	32.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 77 % · humidity 64 %
Miniac-sous-Bécherel	35	718 km NW	776	35.7	Few services	no figures
Thun-Saint-Martin	59	724 km N	543	29.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 80 % · humidity 64 %
Messincourt	08	656 km N	580	23.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 45 % · humidity 57 %
Mairy-sur-Marne	51	567 km N	565	35.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 72 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Sauvetat	63	241 km NW	737	32.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 77 % · humidity 64 %
Mairy-sur-Marne	51	567 km N	565	35.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 72 % · humidity 71 %
Ancemont	55	589 km N	527	27.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 46 % · humidity 64 %
Messincourt	08	656 km N	580	23.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 45 % · humidity 57 %
Miniac-sous-Bécherel	35	718 km NW	776	35.7	Few services	no figures
Thun-Saint-Martin	59	724 km N	543	29.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 80 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Mas-Blanc-des-Alpilles'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
Bélarga	34	105 km W	664	44	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Pouzols	34	102 km W	953	35.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Hilaire-de-Beauvoir	34	60 km W	461	40.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Brignac	34	105 km W	978	34	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Montaud	34	65 km W	1,014	24.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Verquières	13	14 km NE	772	48.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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