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Blanquefort

Gers · CC des Coteaux Arrats Gimone · INSEE 32056

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 10.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 47 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Blanquefort (INSEE 32056) is in Gers (32), part of CC des Coteaux Arrats Gimone. Population 42 (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/32056-blanquefort

Vitality score

Vitality score 10.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 47 % of the 3,697 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.45104.55
Housing mix0.8254.09

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 0 of 3
Health 0 of 4
Public services 0 of 1
Culture 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 106 2023: 42 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 53 (2012) → 42 (2023): -20.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 44 (1990) → 42 (2023): -4.5 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 22, of which 9.1 % second homes and 22.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 2.4 km N (Saint-Sauvy)GP — 3.6 km SW (Aubiet)Bakery — 3.7 km SW (Aubiet)Pharmacy — 3.7 km SW (Aubiet)Food shop — 6.1 km N (Augnax)
Primary school — 2.4 km NGP — 3.6 km SWBakery — 3.7 km SWPharmacy — 3.7 km SWFood shop — 6.1 km N 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 (Aubiet): 3.7 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Augnax): 6.1 km to the north (straight line). [9]

GP (Aubiet): 3.6 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Aubiet): 3.7 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Saint-Sauvy): 2.4 km to the north (straight line). [10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 46 days a year at or above 30 °C and 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the STE-ANNE weather station, 15.1 km away at 132 m; the village itself is at 150 m. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at LAHAS, 15.5 km away at 251 m, over 21 summers. [11]

That station sits 101 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [11]

An average of 701 mm of rain a year, spread over 106 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at GIMONT, 8.1 km away at 177 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32056/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32056/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32056/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32056/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 32012
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 32014
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 32406
  11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Imécourt08709 km NE426.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 13 % · winter 99 %
Morville88637 km NE4212.4No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 54 % · humidity 43 %
Betbèze6547 km SW4210.3No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 91 % · humidity 64 %
Pradettes09112 km SE4311No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 81 % · humidity 57 %
Sérempuy329.7 km N4216.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Thaix58420 km NE425No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 85 % · humidity 50 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Sérempuy329.7 km N4216.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Betbèze6547 km SW4210.3No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 91 % · humidity 64 %
Pradettes09112 km SE4311No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 81 % · humidity 57 %
Thaix58420 km NE425No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 85 % · humidity 50 %
Morville88637 km NE4212.4No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 54 % · humidity 43 %
Imécourt08709 km NE426.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 13 % · winter 99 %

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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 Blanquefort'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Sérempuy329.7 km N4216.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Orens329.2 km NE8216No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Arthez-d'Armagnac4089 km W9210.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Roquelaure-Saint-Aubin3214 km E10217.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Avensac3219 km NE7316.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %