Sainte-Marie

Gers · CC des Coteaux Arrats Gimone · INSEE 32388

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

Few services 24.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 53 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sainte-Marie (INSEE 32388) is in Gers (32), part of CC des Coteaux Arrats Gimone. Population 386 (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 24.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 53 % of the 18,020 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.74

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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 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 ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 309 peak 2017: 429 2023: 386 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 407 (2012) → 386 (2023): -5.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 208 (1990) → 386 (2023): 85.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 192, of which 2.6 % second homes and 11.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 3.3 km SGP — 3.4 km SFood shop — 3.7 km SPharmacy — 3.8 km S 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 (Gimont): 3.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Gimont): 3.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Gimont): 3.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Gimont): 3.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 39.8

Days at or below 0 °C 52.3

Muggy days a summer 7.2

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 40 days a year at or above 30 °C and 52 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the STE-ANNE weather station, 12.3 km away at 132 m; the village itself is at 210 m. ^[10]

The village sits 78 m above 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at LAHAS, 12.6 km away at 251 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

An average of 701 mm of rain a year, spread over 106 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at GIMONT, 3.8 km away at 177 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 — 32388/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32388/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32388/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32388/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32147
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32388
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
Noilhan	32	15 km S	388	23.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Vielleségure	64	130 km W	376	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 65 % · humidity 50 %
Cuhon	86	350 km N	377	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Monassut-Audiracq	64	90 km W	369	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 53 % · humidity 86 %
Brignemont	31	16 km NE	366	20.7	Few services	no figures
La Haute-Maison	77	603 km N	352	24.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 88 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Noilhan	32	15 km S	388	23.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Brignemont	31	16 km NE	366	20.7	Few services	no figures
Monassut-Audiracq	64	90 km W	369	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 53 % · humidity 86 %
Vielleségure	64	130 km W	376	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 65 % · humidity 50 %
Cuhon	86	350 km N	377	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
La Haute-Maison	77	603 km N	352	24.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 88 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Sainte-Marie'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
Garrigues	81	68 km E	333	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Viviers-lès-Lavaur	81	75 km E	268	24.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Escornebœuf	32	3.3 km E	579	21.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Seysses-Savès	32	22 km SE	244	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Gensac-sur-Garonne	31	54 km SE	451	31.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Teyssode	81	85 km E	382	29.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %

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