Saint-Paul-en-Forêt

Var · CC du Pays de Fayence · INSEE 83117

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

Few services 37.1/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 34 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Paul-en-Forêt (INSEE 83117) is in Var (83), part of CC du Pays de Fayence. Population 1,735 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 37.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 34 % of the 10,549 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.55	5	2.77

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE DU CANTON). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (AU BEC FIN · LA GALINETTE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (ST PAUL EN FORET ARCHE LYLY RP). ^[3]

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

3 × Hairdresser (CL'HAIR COIFFURE · ALISSON COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 1 × Supermarket, 3 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: 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		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BOUCHERIE DU CANTON	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	2	AU BEC FIN · LA GALINETTE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE GELSOMINO	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	ST PAUL EN FORET ARCHE LYLY RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE 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	3	CL'HAIR COIFFURE · ALISSON COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING LE PARC	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: 433 2023: 1,735 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,733 (2012) → 1,735 (2023): 0.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 812 (1990) → 1,735 (2023): 113.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,062, of which 22.3 % second homes and 8.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 3.3 km SGP — 3.4 km SPharmacy — 3.4 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 (Bagnols-en-Forêt): 3.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Paul-en-Forêt): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Bagnols-en-Forêt): 3.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Bagnols-en-Forêt): 3.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Paul-en-Forêt): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 57.9▸

Days at or below 0 °C 43.6

Muggy days a summer 3.3

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 44 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the TOURRETTES weather station, 5.7 km away at 240 m; the village itself is at 325 m. ^[10]

The village sits 85 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at SEILLANS, 5.9 km away at 278 m, over 25 summers. ^[10]

An average of 988 mm of rain a year, spread over 72 days — about 13.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BAGNOLS EN FORET, 3.1 km away at 249 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 83117/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 83117/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 83117/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 83117/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 83008
INSEE BPE 2025 — 83117
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
Bretteville-du-Grand-Caux	76	831 km NW	1,405	37.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 0 % · winter 88 %
Herrlisheim-près-Colmar	68	498 km N	1,911	36.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 5 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Lantic	22	926 km NW	1,814	43.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 61 % · humidity 86 %
Assieu	38	251 km NW	1,726	38.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Soussans	33	611 km W	1,719	35.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 10 % · winter 69 % · humidity 50 %
La Guierche	72	713 km NW	1,300	31.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 10 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Assieu	38	251 km NW	1,726	38.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Herrlisheim-près-Colmar	68	498 km N	1,911	36.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 5 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Soussans	33	611 km W	1,719	35.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 10 % · winter 69 % · humidity 50 %
La Guierche	72	713 km NW	1,300	31.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 10 % · winter 81 % · humidity 86 %
Bretteville-du-Grand-Caux	76	831 km NW	1,405	37.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 0 % · winter 88 %
Lantic	22	926 km NW	1,814	43.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 61 % · 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-Paul-en-Forêt'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
Sablet	84	152 km NW	1,436	49.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Anastasie	30	195 km W	1,738	40.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Sauveterre	30	161 km W	2,025	39	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Cairanne	84	159 km NW	1,129	40.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saze	30	167 km W	2,096	50.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Bauzille-de-Montmel	34	221 km W	1,246	30.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %

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