Sainte-Mère

Gers · CC de la Lomagne Gersoise · INSEE 32395

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

Few services 20.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 63 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sainte-Mère (INSEE 32395) is in Gers (32), part of CC de la Lomagne Gersoise. Population 200 (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 20.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 63 % of the 15,961 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	0.66	10	6.63
Housing mix	0.87	5	4.37

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 (LE RELAIS GERSOIS). ^[3,4]

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	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	1	LE RELAIS GERSOIS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 205 peak 2017: 215 2023: 200 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 207 (2012) → 200 (2023): -3.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 172 (1990) → 200 (2023): 16.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 111, of which 6.3 % second homes and 9.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.3 km NWFood shop — 2.7 km NGP — 5.0 km NBakery — 6.9 km NPharmacy — 7.0 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 (Astaffort): 6.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sempesserre): 2.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Astaffort): 5 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Astaffort): 7 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Sempesserre): 2.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 37.7

Days at or below 0 °C 30.5

Muggy days a summer 8.7

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 38 days a year at or above 30 °C and 31 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LECTOURE weather station, 8.1 km away at 179 m; the village itself is at 175 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at MAUROUX, 16.4 km away at 201 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 688 mm of rain a year, spread over 108 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at MIRADOUX, 7 km away at 198 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 — 32395/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32395/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32395/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32395/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 47015
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32429
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
Hautefond	71	384 km NE	201	19.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 61 % · humidity 43 %
Maurens	31	108 km SE	207	23.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Escanecrabe	31	81 km S	210	17.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 72 %
Montberaud	31	102 km S	192	23.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 55 % · humidity 64 %
Armillac	47	66 km N	209	23.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 88 % · humidity 79 %
Gans	33	82 km NW	207	22.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Armillac	47	66 km N	209	23.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 88 % · humidity 79 %
Escanecrabe	31	81 km S	210	17.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 72 %
Gans	33	82 km NW	207	22.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Montberaud	31	102 km S	192	23.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 55 % · humidity 64 %
Maurens	31	108 km SE	207	23.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Hautefond	71	384 km NE	201	19.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 61 % · 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 Sainte-Mère'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
Maurens	31	108 km SE	207	23.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Francarville	31	98 km SE	191	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Denis-Catus	46	85 km NE	198	18.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Labretonie	47	59 km NW	167	10.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Caragoudes	31	100 km SE	239	16.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Cambiac	31	107 km SE	236	14.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %

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