Orbessan

Gers · CC Val de Gers · INSEE 32300

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school.

Few services 24.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 66 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Orbessan (INSEE 32300) is in Gers (32), part of CC Val de Gers. Population 269 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[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 24.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 66 % of the 17,540 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.58

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Nursery school (maternelle).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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	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	1	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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 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: 114 peak 2017: 288 2023: 269 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 251 (2012) → 269 (2023): 7.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 159 (1990) → 269 (2023): 69.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 120, of which 4.2 % second homes and 7.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.7 km SFood shop — 5.6 km SPharmacy — 5.9 km SGP — 6.5 km SBakery — 8.0 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 (Pavie): 8 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Seissan): 5.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Seissan): 6.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Seissan): 5.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Ornézan): 3.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 30.4

Days at or below 0 °C 37.3

Muggy days a summer 9.2

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 30 days a year at or above 30 °C and 37 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MONCORNEIL weather station, 11.5 km away at 244 m; the village itself is at 176 m. ^[11]

The village sits 68 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.7 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at MASSEUBE, 12.1 km away at 217 m, over 10 summers. ^[11]

An average of 792 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MONCORNEIL, 11.5 km away at 244 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 — 32300/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32300/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32300/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32300/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32307
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32426
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32302
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
Sarcy	51	676 km N	268	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 57 % · humidity 43 %
Fresnoy-le-Château	10	589 km NE	269	21.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 70 % · humidity 57 %
Urdens	32	36 km N	264	22.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Calmoutier	70	634 km NE	263	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 43 % · humidity 50 %
Richeville	27	640 km N	264	21.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 77 % · humidity 43 %
Frédéric-Fontaine	70	654 km NE	278	24.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 46 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Urdens	32	36 km N	264	22.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Fresnoy-le-Château	10	589 km NE	269	21.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 70 % · humidity 57 %
Calmoutier	70	634 km NE	263	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 43 % · humidity 50 %
Richeville	27	640 km N	264	21.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 77 % · humidity 43 %
Frédéric-Fontaine	70	654 km NE	278	24.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 46 % · humidity 43 %
Sarcy	51	676 km N	268	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 57 % · humidity 43 %

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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 Orbessan'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
Laroque	33	144 km NW	285	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Jû-Belloc	32	49 km W	286	19.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Le Carlaret	09	99 km SE	295	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
La Bastide-de-Lordat	09	100 km SE	330	24.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Laurent-du-Bois	33	135 km NW	263	28.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Escoussans	33	145 km NW	273	12.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %

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