Saint-André

Savoie · CC Haute Maurienne Vanoise · INSEE 73223

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

Few services 23.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 43 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-André (INSEE 73223) is in Savoie (73), part of CC Haute Maurienne Vanoise. Population 449 (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/73223-saint-andre

Vitality score

Vitality score 23.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 43 % of the 17,934 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	0.29	25	7.21
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.5	10	5
Housing mix	0.05	5	0.23

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 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”.

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE CHALET PATISSIER · L'ATELIER GOURMAND). ^[3]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	LE CHALET PATISSIER · L'ATELIER GOURMAND	INSEE BPE 2 / 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	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	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	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: 717 2023: 449 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 483 (2012) → 449 (2023): -7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 449 (1990) → 449 (2023): 0 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 478, of which 47.7 % second homes and 11.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery Food shop — 2.2 km SEPharmacy — 2.4 km SEPrimary school — 2.5 km WGP — 3.3 km E 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-André): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Fourneaux): 2.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Modane): 3.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Fourneaux): 2.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-André): 2.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 4.6

Days at or below 0 °C 105.7▸

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 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 106 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MODANE weather station, 4.4 km away at 1,228 m; the village itself is at 1,099 m. ^[11]

The village sits 129 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at FREJUS, 4.4 km away at 1,228 m, over 18 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 129 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.69 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 648 mm of rain a year, spread over 96 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MODANE, 4.4 km away at 1,228 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 — 73223/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73223/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73223/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 73223/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73223
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73117
INSEE BPE 2025 — 73157
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
Saint-Paul-sur-Isère	73	46 km N	543	20.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Ribes	07	206 km W	331	25.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 7 % · humidity 93 %
Sanilhac	07	201 km W	437	26.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 26 % · winter 41 % · humidity 86 %
Étrigny	71	209 km NW	482	27.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 53 % · humidity 57 %
Sougé	41	534 km NW	484	29.4	Few services	no figures
Lalaye	67	351 km N	481	17.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 42 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Paul-sur-Isère	73	46 km N	543	20.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Sanilhac	07	201 km W	437	26.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 26 % · winter 41 % · humidity 86 %
Ribes	07	206 km W	331	25.1	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 7 % · humidity 93 %
Étrigny	71	209 km NW	482	27.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 53 % · humidity 57 %
Lalaye	67	351 km N	481	17.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 42 % · humidity 86 %
Sougé	41	534 km NW	484	29.4	Few services	no figures

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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-André'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
La Baume	74	120 km N	320	15.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Jarrier	73	25 km W	506	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
La Versanne	42	164 km W	394	20.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Brizon	74	95 km N	457	28.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Villedieu	15	280 km W	535	20.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Maurice-Crillat	39	164 km N	247	7.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

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