Pourcieux

Var · CA de la Provence Verte · INSEE 83096

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

Few services 32.6/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 25 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Pourcieux (INSEE 83096) is in Var (83), part of CA de la Provence Verte. Population 1,552 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/83096-pourcieux

Vitality score

Vitality score 32.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 25 % of the 11,375 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.57

Services

What is here, at a glance

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (F.E.B). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE HINATA). ^[3,4]

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

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

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE DE POURCIEUX). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (COIFFURE DE MANU). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: 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)	1	F.E.B	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	LE HINATA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [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)	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	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE DE POURCIEUX	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	1	COIFFURE DE MANU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 256 peak 2017: 1,564 2023: 1,552 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,173 (2012) → 1,552 (2023): 32.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 527 (1990) → 1,552 (2023): 194.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 744, of which 4.3 % second homes and 5.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 3.8 km EGP — 4.1 km EPharmacy — 5.3 km NW 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 (Pourcieux): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Ollières): 3.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume): 4.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Pourrières): 5.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Pourcieux): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 57.6▸

Days at or below 0 °C 65.3

Muggy days a summer 0.4

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 65 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ST MAXIMIN LA STE BAUME weather station, 5.1 km away at 294 m; the village itself is at 352 m. ^[12]

The village sits 58 m above 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ST MAXIMIN LA STE BAUME, 5.1 km away at 294 m, over 19 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 58 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.57 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 737 mm of rain a year, spread over 68 days — about 10.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ST MAXIMIN LA STE BAUME, 5.1 km away at 294 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

What property sold for

102 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 268,250 € — 3,026 € per m² of built surface. ^[13]

21 flats sold over the same window, at a median of 214,800 € — 3,313 € per m². ^[13]

The median across Var is 3,286 € per m², so this commune sits about level with it. ^[13]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 83096/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 83096/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 83096/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 83096/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 83096
INSEE BPE 2025 — 83089
INSEE BPE 2025 — 83116
INSEE BPE 2025 — 83097
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Fillé	72	660 km NW	1,562	40.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Étriché	49	671 km NW	1,600	40.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 70 % · humidity 86 %
Le Luart	72	651 km NW	1,460	35.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Louplande	72	668 km NW	1,505	37.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Sassenay	71	380 km N	1,612	32.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Chantemerle-les-Blés	26	196 km N	1,343	38.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Chantemerle-les-Blés	26	196 km N	1,343	38.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Sassenay	71	380 km N	1,612	32.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Le Luart	72	651 km NW	1,460	35.3	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Fillé	72	660 km NW	1,562	40.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Louplande	72	668 km NW	1,505	37.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Étriché	49	671 km NW	1,600	40.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 70 % · 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 Pourcieux'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
Rougiers	83	10 km SE	1,697	49.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Belcodène	13	17 km W	2,009	43	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Seillons-Source-d'Argens	83	8.4 km E	2,818	43.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Mirabeau	84	28 km N	1,450	44.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Bras	83	14 km E	2,637	47.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Buis-les-Baronnies	26	98 km NW	2,218	66.9	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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