Espas

Gers · CC du Bas Armagnac · INSEE 32125

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

No daily shops 10.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 22 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Espas (INSEE 32125) is in Gers (32), part of CC du Bas Armagnac. Population 136 (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 10.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 22 % of the 13,295 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	25	0
Social	0	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.53	10	5.3
Housing mix	0.73	5	3.63

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

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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 188 2023: 136 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 118 (2012) → 136 (2023): 15.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 132 (1990) → 136 (2023): 3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 80, of which 13.8 % second homes and 7.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Pharmacy — 3.1 km NWPrimary school — 3.2 km NWGP — 4.5 km NWFood shop — 5.9 km SEBakery — 7.9 km E 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 (Dému): 7.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Dému): 5.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Manciet): 4.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Manciet): 3.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Manciet): 3.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 29.7

Days at or below 0 °C 23.4

Muggy days a summer 14.4▸

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 30 days a year at or above 30 °C and 23 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the SALLES-D'ARMAGN weather station, 9.5 km away at 133 m; the village itself is at 156 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 14 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at EAUZE, 10.3 km away at 165 m, over 12 summers. ^[10]

An average of 880 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at EAUZE - VILLE, 8.8 km away at 171 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 — 32125/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32125/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32125/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32125/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32115
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32227
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
Andrein	64	89 km SW	136	13.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
La Roche-Vanneau	21	537 km NE	135	7.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 50 % · humidity 7 %
Commerveil	72	505 km N	138	10.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 49 % · winter 85 %
Sainte-Honorine-de-Ducy	14	600 km N	136	12.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 95 % · humidity 7 %
Ébréon	16	240 km N	139	7.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 59 % · humidity 21 %
Eygaliers	26	420 km E	139	16	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 58 % · humidity 7 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Andrein	64	89 km SW	136	13.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Ébréon	16	240 km N	139	7.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 59 % · humidity 21 %
Eygaliers	26	420 km E	139	16	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 58 % · humidity 7 %
Commerveil	72	505 km N	138	10.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 49 % · winter 85 %
La Roche-Vanneau	21	537 km NE	135	7.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 50 % · humidity 7 %
Sainte-Honorine-de-Ducy	14	600 km N	136	12.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 95 % · humidity 7 %

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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 Espas'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
Loubédat	32	5.2 km SW	117	9.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Ayzieu	32	11 km NW	158	11.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Taron-Sadirac-Viellenave	64	40 km SW	168	8.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Labets-Biscay	64	101 km SW	144	7.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Louvigny	64	51 km SW	139	11.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Bourrouillan	32	8.0 km NW	165	10.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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