Saint-Chamas

Bouches-du-Rhône · Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence · INSEE 13092

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

Served 70.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 96 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Chamas (INSEE 13092) is in Bouches-du-Rhône (13), part of Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence. Population 8,676 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/13092-saint-chamas

Vitality score

Vitality score 70.6/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 96 % of the 2,828 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	0.61	25	15.17
Social	0.87	20	17.38
Education	0.53	10	5.28
Health	0.63	10	6.29
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.78

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 3 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

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

5 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE PONTIER · LE FOURNIL DU PONT FLAVIEN · MB GEMINI · BOULANGERIE DE L'HORLOGE). ^[3,4]

2 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE DE L'ETANG · ARNAUD VIANDE GESTION). ^[3,4]

5 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (DISTRIBUTION CASINO FRANCE · EPICERIE LE PARADIGME · LA CAVE DI VINE · LES GOURMANDS DISENT... · VIVAL). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (LIDL). ^[3,4]

13 × Restaurant (JEANDA · LA TABLE D'ANAELLE · EURL FABRICE RECEPTION · AUBERGE DES CAVALIERS). ^[3,4]

6 × Café / bar (LE PETIT CAFE DE FRANCE · LA MARINE · BAR DE L'HORLOGE). ^[4]

3 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE LE PONT FLAVIEN · ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE MATERNELLE LA POUDRERIE). ^[3]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE IRENE JOLIOT-CURIE · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE GABRIEL PERI). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE RENE SEYSSAUD). ^[3]

8 × GP (médecin généraliste) (TATIANA LINCK, MÉDECIN · IRINA TUDOSE, MÉDECIN · ISABELLE TIMON-DAVID, MÉDECIN · CELINE EPENOY-BARRE, MÉDECIN · SOPHIE PAGES, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

2 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE BRISSON · SELAS PHARMACIE LE TREBUCHET). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

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

2 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE MIMI BONIFAY · LE PARC DES SPORTS). ^[3]

7 × Hairdresser (STEFF'COIFFURE · EURL UN HAIR DE NAT · LE SALON DE FLO · LA SPHERE DES COIFFEURS). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LE CANET PLAGE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Butcher (boucherie), 4 × Restaurant, 1 × Hairdresser.

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	5	BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE PONTIER · LE FOURNIL DU PONT FLAVIEN · MB GEMINI · BOULANGERIE DE L'HORLOGE	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	2	BOUCHERIE DE L'ETANG · ARNAUD VIANDE GESTION	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	5	DISTRIBUTION CASINO FRANCE · EPICERIE LE PARADIGME · LA CAVE DI VINE · LES GOURMANDS DISENT... · VIVAL	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 7 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	LIDL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Restaurant	13	JEANDA · LA TABLE D'ANAELLE · EURL FABRICE RECEPTION · AUBERGE DES CAVALIERS	INSEE BPE 13 / INSEE SIRENE 22 [3,4]
Café / bar	6	LE PETIT CAFE DE FRANCE · LA MARINE · BAR DE L'HORLOGE	INSEE SIRENE 6 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	3	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE LE PONT FLAVIEN · ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE MATERNELLE LA POUDRERIE	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE IRENE JOLIOT-CURIE · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE GABRIEL PERI	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE RENE SEYSSAUD	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	8	TATIANA LINCK, MÉDECIN · IRINA TUDOSE, MÉDECIN · ISABELLE TIMON-DAVID, MÉDECIN · CELINE EPENOY-BARRE, MÉDECIN · SOPHIE PAGES, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 8 [3]
Pharmacy	2	PHARMACIE BRISSON · SELAS PHARMACIE LE TREBUCHET	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	2	SALLE MIMI BONIFAY · LE PARC DES SPORTS	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	7	STEFF'COIFFURE · EURL UN HAIR DE NAT · LE SALON DE FLO · LA SPHERE DES COIFFEURS	INSEE BPE 7 / INSEE SIRENE 14 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING LE CANET PLAGE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 5,083 2023: 8,676 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 7,852 (2012) → 8,676 (2023): 10.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 5,396 (1990) → 8,676 (2023): 60.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 4,324, of which 2.2 % second homes and 4.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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-Chamas): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Chamas): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Chamas): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Chamas): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Chamas): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 56.1▸

Days at or below 0 °C 33.9

Muggy days a summer 4.2

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 56 days a year at or above 30 °C and 34 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the SALON DE PROVENCE weather station, 9.1 km away at 58 m; the village itself is at 4 m. ^[9]

The village sits 54 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. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at SALON DE PROVENCE, 9.1 km away at 58 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 54 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.57 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 562 mm of rain a year, spread over 56 days — about 10 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at ST CHAMAS, 0.4 km away at 10 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 13092/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 13092/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 13092/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 13092/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 13092
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
Lempdes	63	286 km NW	8,709	63.7	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 73 % · humidity 79 %
Le Teil	07	115 km N	8,726	66	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Vallier	71	348 km N	8,508	55.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 51 % · humidity 79 %
Varces-Allières-et-Risset	38	178 km N	8,542	56	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 55 % · humidity 71 %
Ballan-Miré	37	545 km NW	8,477	54.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Velaux	13	18 km E	8,941	56.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Velaux	13	18 km E	8,941	56.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Le Teil	07	115 km N	8,726	66	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 71 %
Varces-Allières-et-Risset	38	178 km N	8,542	56	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 55 % · humidity 71 %
Lempdes	63	286 km NW	8,709	63.7	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 73 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Vallier	71	348 km N	8,508	55.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 51 % · humidity 79 %
Ballan-Miré	37	545 km NW	8,477	54.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Saint-Chamas'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
Velaux	13	18 km E	8,941	56.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
La Fare-les-Oliviers	13	13 km E	9,039	67	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Castries	34	86 km W	6,883	61.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Carnoux-en-Provence	13	54 km SE	6,873	53.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Rochefort-du-Gard	30	55 km NW	8,117	57	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Grans	13	6.9 km N	5,489	53.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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