Vivant· Is the village alive?

Saint-Christaud

Gers · CC Coeur d'Astarac en Gascogne · INSEE 32367

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

No daily shops 4.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 5 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Christaud (INSEE 32367) is in Gers (32), part of CC Coeur d'Astarac en Gascogne. Population 64 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/32367-saint-christaud

Vitality score

Vitality score 4.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 5 % of the 6,681 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.07100.71
Housing mix0.6753.37

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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 136 2023: 64 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 70 (2012) → 64 (2023): -8.6 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 112 (1990) → 64 (2023): -42.9 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 49, of which 16.3 % second homes and 8.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 3.3 km NE (Pouylebon)GP — 5.7 km N (Bassoues)Bakery — 5.8 km N (Bassoues)Food shop — 7.5 km W (Marciac)Pharmacy — 7.6 km NE (Montesquiou)
Primary school — 3.3 km NEGP — 5.7 km NBakery — 5.8 km NFood shop — 7.5 km WPharmacy — 7.6 km NE 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): 5.8 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Marciac): 7.5 km to the west (straight line). [9]

GP (Bassoues): 5.7 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Montesquiou): 7.6 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Pouylebon): 3.3 km to the north-east (straight line). [11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 25 days a year at or above 30 °C and 20 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the PEYRUSSE-GRANDE weather station, 10.3 km away at 254 m; the village itself is at 280 m. [12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 8 days a summer. [12]

Humidity measured at PEYRUSSE-GRANDE, 10.3 km away at 254 m, over 30 summers. [12]

An average of 886 mm of rain a year, spread over 116 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at BASSOUES, 5.6 km away at 222 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32367/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32367/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32367/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32367/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 32032
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 32233
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 32285
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 32326
  12. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Boisbergues80752 km N648.7No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 82 % · humidity 50 %
Martisserre3152 km E6410.3No daily shopsno figures
Avon79317 km N637.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 66 %
Villeret10644 km NE6611No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 62 % · humidity 57 %
Louslitges3211 km NW636.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Pallanne322.8 km S6112.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Pallanne322.8 km S6112.7No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Louslitges3211 km NW636.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Martisserre3152 km E6410.3No daily shopsno figures
Avon79317 km N637.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 66 %
Villeret10644 km NE6611No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 62 % · humidity 57 %
Boisbergues80752 km N648.7No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 82 % · humidity 50 %

Sort and compare these on the full list →

…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 Saint-Christaud'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Louslitges3211 km NW636.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Sauvimont3258 km E6516No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Peyrusse-Vieille3213 km NW635.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pierre-d'Aubézies3215 km NW606.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Amans11135 km E637.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Tudelle3217 km N5610.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %