Castelnau-Barbarens

Gers · CA Grand Auch Coeur de Gascogne · INSEE 32076

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

Partly served 55.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 96 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Castelnau-Barbarens (INSEE 32076) is in Gers (32), part of CA Grand Auch Coeur de Gascogne. Population 596 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 55.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 96 % of the 17,098 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	0.63	25	15.8
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.94	10	9.4
Housing mix	0.75	5	3.77

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 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 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]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (ORLANE & PATISSERIES). ^[3]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (CHEZ NICOLE EPICERIE D ANTAN). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LA CABANE DE LA TUILERIE). ^[3,4]

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

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

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

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

Not found in the commune: 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	ORLANE & PATISSERIES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	CHEZ NICOLE EPICERIE D ANTAN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	2	LA CABANE DE LA TUILERIE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	POINT LECTURE DE CASTELNAU BARBARENS	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: 525 2023: 596 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 515 (2012) → 596 (2023): 15.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 414 (1990) → 596 (2023): 44 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 334, of which 12.3 % second homes and 8.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 3.7 km NWGP — 6.7 km SEPharmacy — 6.8 km SE 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 (Castelnau-Barbarens): 3.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Castelnau-Barbarens): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saramon): 6.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saramon): 6.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.8

Days at or below 0 °C 21

Muggy days a summer 7.2

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 28 days a year at or above 30 °C and 21 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LAHAS weather station, 13.6 km away at 251 m; the village itself is at 211 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at LAHAS, 13.6 km away at 251 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

An average of 732 mm of rain a year, spread over 107 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at SARAMON, 6.7 km away at 197 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32076/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32076/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32076/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32076/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32076
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32412
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
Talizat	15	252 km NE	592	40.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Vicq-sur-Gartempe	86	350 km N	658	40.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 86 % · humidity 79 %
Leignes-sur-Fontaine	86	326 km N	647	46.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 47 % · humidity 71 %
Rimont	09	79 km SE	542	44	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 11 % · humidity 71 %
Torcé-Viviers-en-Charnie	53	509 km N	768	43.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 56 % · winter 59 %
Chéniers	23	321 km N	554	42.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 66 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Rimont	09	79 km SE	542	44	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 11 % · humidity 71 %
Talizat	15	252 km NE	592	40.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Chéniers	23	321 km N	554	42.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 66 % · humidity 57 %
Leignes-sur-Fontaine	86	326 km N	647	46.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 47 % · humidity 71 %
Vicq-sur-Gartempe	86	350 km N	658	40.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 86 % · humidity 79 %
Torcé-Viviers-en-Charnie	53	509 km N	768	43.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 56 % · winter 59 %

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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 Castelnau-Barbarens'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
Viella	32	70 km W	530	47.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Montpezat	47	87 km N	566	44.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Miradoux	32	47 km N	530	39.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Côle	24	200 km N	432	40.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Ciers-du-Taillon	17	232 km NW	581	51.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Nadaillac	24	171 km N	372	39.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

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