Montesquiou

Gers · CC Coeur d'Astarac en Gascogne · INSEE 32285

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

Few services 34.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 69 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montesquiou (INSEE 32285) is in Gers (32), part of CC Coeur d'Astarac en Gascogne. Population 567 (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 34.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 69 % of the 17,378 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.63	10	6.32
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.48	10	4.79
Housing mix	0.74	5	3.69

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 2 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (HEXAGRAMME DISTRIBUTION). ^[3,4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (NICOLE DAVID, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE ROQUES). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE LYDIE SALVAYRE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (L'HAIR LIBRE). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (CHATEAU DU HAGET). ^[3,4]

2 × Campsite (EURL SILEO · CHATEAU LE HAGET). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[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)	1	HEXAGRAMME DISTRIBUTION	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	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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)	1	NICOLE DAVID, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE ROQUES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	BIBLIOTHÈQUE LYDIE SALVAYRE	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	1	L'HAIR LIBRE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	CHATEAU DU HAGET	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Campsite	2	EURL SILEO · CHATEAU LE HAGET	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 645 2023: 567 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 590 (2012) → 567 (2023): -3.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 579 (1990) → 567 (2023): -2.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 366, of which 13.1 % second homes and 8.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Bakery — 6.8 km W 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 (Bassoues): 6.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Montesquiou): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Montesquiou): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Montesquiou): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Montesquiou): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

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 9.3

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 35 days a year at or above 30 °C and 38 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the MIRANDE weather station, 8 km away at 184 m; the village itself is at 197 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at PEYRUSSE-GRANDE, 9.5 km away at 254 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 57 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 886 mm of rain a year, spread over 116 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BASSOUES, 6.4 km away at 222 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 — 32285/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32285/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32285/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32285/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32032
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32285
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
Teillet	81	164 km E	458	40.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 77 % · humidity 57 %
Mourioux-Vieilleville	23	297 km N	521	28.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 100 % · humidity 43 %
Couleuvre	03	399 km NE	580	24.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 68 % · humidity 43 %
Vézins-de-Lévézou	12	224 km E	656	47.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 49 % · humidity 36 %
Courdemanche	72	471 km N	623	39.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 51 % · winter 89 %
Barran	32	10 km NE	692	42.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Barran	32	10 km NE	692	42.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Teillet	81	164 km E	458	40.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 77 % · humidity 57 %
Vézins-de-Lévézou	12	224 km E	656	47.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 49 % · humidity 36 %
Mourioux-Vieilleville	23	297 km N	521	28.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 100 % · humidity 43 %
Couleuvre	03	399 km NE	580	24.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 68 % · humidity 43 %
Courdemanche	72	471 km N	623	39.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 51 % · winter 89 %

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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 Montesquiou'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
Barran	32	10 km NE	692	42.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Puymiclan	47	104 km N	701	42.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Lévignac-de-Guyenne	47	117 km N	674	31	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Verteuil-d'Agenais	47	99 km N	539	45.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Montestruc-sur-Gers	32	34 km NE	695	38.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Gornac	33	127 km N	441	38.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %

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