Barran

Gers · CC Val de Gers · INSEE 32029

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

Partly served 42.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 81 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Barran (INSEE 32029) is in Gers (32), part of CC Val de Gers. Population 692 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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/32029-barran

Vitality score

Vitality score 42.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 81 % of the 16,447 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.62	10	6.2
Housing mix	0.8	5	4.01

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 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

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

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (PROXI). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (PIZZERIA LR). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Pharmacy (PROPHARMACIE MONSIEUR DOCTEUR CHRISTIAN DEBAT). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (BARRAN PROXI RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (POINT LECTURE DE BARRAN). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE DES SPORTS). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	PROXI	INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 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	1	PIZZERIA LR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	PROPHARMACIE MONSIEUR DOCTEUR CHRISTIAN DEBAT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	BARRAN PROXI RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	POINT LECTURE DE BARRAN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	SALLE DES SPORTS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 801 2023: 692 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 685 (2012) → 692 (2023): 1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 618 (1990) → 692 (2023): 12 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 415, of which 9.9 % second homes and 9.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school, Pharmacy Bakery — 4.2 km SWFood shop — 4.6 km SWGP — 10.1 km SW 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 (L'Isle-de-Noé): 4.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (L'Isle-de-Noé): 4.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Montesquiou): 10.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Barran): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Barran): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 34.5

Days at or below 0 °C 37.9

Muggy days a summer 6.7

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 35 days a year at or above 30 °C and 38 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MIRANDE weather station, 10.2 km away at 184 m; the village itself is at 170 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at AUCH, 15.1 km away at 122 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 811 mm of rain a year, spread over 114 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MIRANDE, 10.2 km away at 184 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 — 32029/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32029/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32029/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32029/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32159
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32285
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32029
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
Saligny-sur-Roudon	03	410 km NE	641	32.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 96 % · humidity 57 %
Vailhourles	12	140 km NE	648	37.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 64 % · humidity 71 %
Verrières-en-Forez	42	355 km NE	731	43.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 39 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Paul-du-Bois	49	393 km N	598	36	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 54 % · winter 85 %
Pouligny-Notre-Dame	36	342 km N	639	36.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 84 % · humidity 57 %
Sainte-Croix-Volvestre	09	81 km SE	649	49.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sainte-Croix-Volvestre	09	81 km SE	649	49.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Vailhourles	12	140 km NE	648	37.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 64 % · humidity 71 %
Pouligny-Notre-Dame	36	342 km N	639	36.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 84 % · humidity 57 %
Verrières-en-Forez	42	355 km NE	731	43.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 39 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Paul-du-Bois	49	393 km N	598	36	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 54 % · winter 85 %
Saligny-sur-Roudon	03	410 km NE	641	32.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 96 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Barran'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
Puymiclan	47	100 km N	701	42.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Montesquiou	32	10 km SW	567	34.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Castelsagrat	82	75 km NE	547	55.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Solférino	40	124 km NW	374	27.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Bouglon	47	91 km N	630	48.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Coly-Saint-Amand	24	173 km N	640	46.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %

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