Ponsampère

Gers · CC Astarac Arros en Gascogne · INSEE 32323

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

No daily shops 17.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 77 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ponsampère (INSEE 32323) is in Gers (32), part of CC Astarac Arros en Gascogne. Population 98 (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 17.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 77 % of the 10,424 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	0.29	25	7.21
Social	0	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.39	10	3.91
Housing mix	0.8	5	3.98

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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”.

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

2 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), 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	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	2	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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 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: 109 peak 2017: 126 2023: 98 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 115 (2012) → 98 (2023): -14.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 110 (1990) → 98 (2023): -10.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 59, of which 10.2 % second homes and 6.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 0.7 km WPrimary school — 3.8 km NEBakery — 5.5 km NGP — 6.3 km SWPharmacy — 6.4 km SW 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 (Mirande): 5.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Ponsampère): 0.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Miélan): 6.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Miélan): 6.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Berdoues): 3.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 33.7

Days at or below 0 °C 35.4

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 34 days a year at or above 30 °C and 35 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the SADEILLAN weather station, 6.8 km away at 263 m; the village itself is at 262 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at MASSEUBE, 15.8 km away at 217 m, over 10 summers. ^[12]

An average of 892 mm of rain a year, spread over 114 days — about 7.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at SADEILLAN, 6.8 km away at 263 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32323/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32323/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32323/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32323/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32256
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32323
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32252
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32045
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
Trouley-Labarthe	65	19 km SW	100	23	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Tourrenquets	32	42 km NE	99	10.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 71 %
Fraignot-et-Vesvrotte	21	586 km NE	76	16.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 44 % · winter 73 %
La Chapelle-Orthemale	36	386 km N	100	9.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 89 % · humidity 50 %
Lalanne	65	27 km SE	99	16.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 76 % · humidity 71 %
Montfa	09	84 km SE	96	16.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 62 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Trouley-Labarthe	65	19 km SW	100	23	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Lalanne	65	27 km SE	99	16.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 76 % · humidity 71 %
Tourrenquets	32	42 km NE	99	10.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 71 %
Montfa	09	84 km SE	96	16.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 62 % · humidity 71 %
La Chapelle-Orthemale	36	386 km N	100	9.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 89 % · humidity 50 %
Fraignot-et-Vesvrotte	21	586 km NE	76	16.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 44 % · winter 73 %

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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 Ponsampère'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
Sainte-Colombe-de-Duras	47	139 km N	98	11.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Sauviac	32	8.4 km SE	103	8.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Barcugnan	32	9.1 km S	104	6.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Doudrac	47	136 km N	105	11.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Floudès	33	129 km N	103	13.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Pouy-Loubrin	32	19 km E	85	8.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %

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