Saint-Mézard

Gers · CC de la Lomagne Gersoise · INSEE 32396

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

No daily shops 19.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 51 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Mézard (INSEE 32396) is in Gers (32), part of CC de la Lomagne Gersoise. Population 240 (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 19.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 51 % of the 17,060 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.51	10	5.08
Housing mix	0.69	5	3.44

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

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

1 × Library (POINT LECTURE DE SAINT-MÉZARD). ^[3]

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. ^[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 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)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE 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	1	POINT LECTURE DE SAINT-MÉZARD	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 314 2023: 240 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 215 (2012) → 240 (2023): 11.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 238 (1990) → 240 (2023): 0.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 141, of which 15.6 % second homes and 10.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.1 km SBakery — 5.0 km SWGP — 5.7 km NWPharmacy — 5.7 km NW 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 (La Romieu): 5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Martin-de-Goyne): 3.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Lamontjoie): 5.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Lamontjoie): 5.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Mézard): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

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 11.1▸

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. ^[12]

Measured at the LECTOURE weather station, 12.7 km away at 179 m; the village itself is at 191 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 11 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at CAUSSENS, 13.6 km away at 184 m, over 14 summers. ^[12]

An average of 728 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LECTOURE, 12.7 km away at 179 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

What property sold for

23 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 158,000 € — 1,351 € per m² of built surface. ^[13]

The median across Gers is 1,285 € per m², so this commune sits about level with it. ^[13]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32396/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32396/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32396/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32396/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32345
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32391
INSEE BPE 2025 — 47133
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32396
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Arconcey	21	466 km NE	217	20.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 57 % · humidity 21 %
Vabres	15	238 km NE	244	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 3 % · humidity 21 %
Louignac	19	145 km NE	248	21.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 24 % · humidity 36 %
Laymont	32	76 km SE	232	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 86 % · humidity 71 %
Perrancey-les-Vieux-Moulins	52	560 km NE	297	19.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 65 % · humidity 29 %
Beaune-d'Allier	03	310 km NE	296	19.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 72 % · humidity 29 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Laymont	32	76 km SE	232	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 86 % · humidity 71 %
Louignac	19	145 km NE	248	21.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 24 % · humidity 36 %
Vabres	15	238 km NE	244	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 3 % · humidity 21 %
Beaune-d'Allier	03	310 km NE	296	19.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 72 % · humidity 29 %
Arconcey	21	466 km NE	217	20.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 57 % · humidity 21 %
Perrancey-les-Vieux-Moulins	52	560 km NE	297	19.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 65 % · humidity 29 %

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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 Saint-Mézard'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
Castelnau-d'Arbieu	32	20 km SE	223	19.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Michel	32	68 km S	252	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Sainte-Dode	32	70 km S	230	10.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Lagardiolle	81	137 km SE	238	19.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Castella	47	33 km N	370	24.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Cézan	32	25 km S	201	14.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

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