Hauteluce

Savoie · CA Arlysère · INSEE 73132

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

Served 74.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 100 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Hauteluce (INSEE 73132) is in Savoie (73), part of CA Arlysère. Population 734 (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/73132-hauteluce

Vitality score

Vitality score 74.7/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 100 % of the 16,179 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	0.86	25	21.5
Social	0.99	20	19.82
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.81	10	8.13
Public & culture	0.75	5	3.74
Population trend	0.4	10	3.95
Housing mix	0	5	0

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 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]

3 × Bakery (boulangerie) (SARL CHOCOLATINE · LES CROES DU BEAUFORTAIN · LE FOURNIL DES SAISIES). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (LE BRICHOU). ^[3,4]

6 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (MOLLIER ET FILS · VIVAL · LA MONTAGNETTE · KARAPA'S · LE GOURMET SAVOYARD). ^[3,4]

2 × Cheese shop (fromagerie) (FROMAGERIE DES SAISIES · LA FROMAGERIE DU BEAUFORTAIN). ^[4]

34 × Restaurant (LE BENETTON · LE CHALET DES MARMOTTES · SCDF MEILLEUR M ET FAVRE COUTILLET M · LE YETI · LA VACHE). ^[3,4]

4 × Café / bar (LE CHAVAN · O'BAR'BU · LA RUCHE · SULLY'SBAR). ^[4]

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

5 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CLEMENT VERNIER, MÉDECIN · SARAH LAFAYE DE MICHEAUX, MÉDECIN · WILLIAM REYNIER, MÉDECIN · GUILLAUME DESSEIGNE, MÉDECIN · ELOÏSE BOCHET, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DES SAISIES). ^[3,4]

2 × Post office / agence postale (HAUTELUCE AP · LES SAISIES AP). ^[3]

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

1 × Gym / sports hall (LE SIGNAL). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (SARL EPI-TETE). ^[3,4]

3 × Hotel (HOTEL LA FERME DU CHOZAL · HOTEL LE VERY · HOTEL LE CALGARY). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 2 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	3	SARL CHOCOLATINE · LES CROES DU BEAUFORTAIN · LE FOURNIL DES SAISIES	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	LE BRICHOU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	6	MOLLIER ET FILS · VIVAL · LA MONTAGNETTE · KARAPA'S · LE GOURMET SAVOYARD	INSEE BPE 6 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	2	FROMAGERIE DES SAISIES · LA FROMAGERIE DU BEAUFORTAIN	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	34	LE BENETTON · LE CHALET DES MARMOTTES · SCDF MEILLEUR M ET FAVRE COUTILLET M · LE YETI · LA VACHE	INSEE BPE 34 / INSEE SIRENE 42 [3,4]
Café / bar	4	LE CHAVAN · O'BAR'BU · LA RUCHE · SULLY'SBAR	INSEE SIRENE 4 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	5	CLEMENT VERNIER, MÉDECIN · SARAH LAFAYE DE MICHEAUX, MÉDECIN · WILLIAM REYNIER, MÉDECIN · GUILLAUME DESSEIGNE, MÉDECIN · ELOÏSE BOCHET, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 5 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DES SAISIES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	2	HAUTELUCE AP · LES SAISIES AP	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	LE SIGNAL	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1	SARL EPI-TETE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	3	HOTEL LA FERME DU CHOZAL · HOTEL LE VERY · HOTEL LE CALGARY	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 11 [3,4]
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: 797 peak 2007: 896 2023: 734 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 808 (2012) → 734 (2023): -9.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 820 (1990) → 734 (2023): -10.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 4,092, of which 90.4 % second homes and 0.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 3.7 km SPharmacy — 3.7 km S 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 (Hauteluce): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Hauteluce): 0.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Beaufort): 3.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Beaufort): 3.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Hauteluce): 0.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 0.6▸

Days at or below 0 °C 114.2▸

Muggy days a summer 0

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 1 day a year at or above 30 °C and 114 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the COL-DES-SAISIES weather station, 3.9 km away at 1,614 m; the village itself is at 1,137 m. ^[10]

The village sits 477 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 6.06 °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 0 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at COL-DES-SAISIES, 3.9 km away at 1,614 m, over 29 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 477 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 1,552 mm of rain a year, spread over 134 days — about 11.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at COL-DES-SAISIES, 3.9 km away at 1,614 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 — 73132/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73132/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73132/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73132/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73132
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73034
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
Peisey-Nancroix	73	26 km SE	632	66.9	Served	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 99 %
Risoul	05	123 km S	664	80.7	Well served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %
Orcières	05	120 km S	651	72.1	Served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Isola	06	178 km S	642	67.5	Served	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 80 %
Notre-Dame-de-Bellecombe	73	8.4 km NW	463	67.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Châtel	74	61 km N	1,174	63.8	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 42 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Notre-Dame-de-Bellecombe	73	8.4 km NW	463	67.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Peisey-Nancroix	73	26 km SE	632	66.9	Served	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 99 %
Châtel	74	61 km N	1,174	63.8	Served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 42 % · humidity 100 %
Orcières	05	120 km S	651	72.1	Served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Risoul	05	123 km S	664	80.7	Well served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %
Isola	06	178 km S	642	67.5	Served	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 80 %

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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 Hauteluce'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
Notre-Dame-de-Bellecombe	73	8.4 km NW	463	67.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Mont-Dore	63	294 km W	1,163	62.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Bolquère	66	510 km SW	816	65.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Thollon-les-Mémises	74	72 km N	879	64	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Crest-Voland	73	7.9 km NW	346	64.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Beuil	06	187 km S	483	62.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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