Saint-Michel

Gers · CC Astarac Arros en Gascogne · INSEE 32397

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

Few services 20.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 54 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Michel (INSEE 32397) is in Gers (32), part of CC Astarac Arros en Gascogne. Population 252 (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 20.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 54 % of the 17,272 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	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.41	10	4.13
Housing mix	0.77	5	3.84

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 1 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 ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINT MICHEL AP). ^[4]

1 × Library (POINT LECTURE DE SAINT-MICHEL). ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	SAINT MICHEL AP	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	1	POINT LECTURE DE SAINT-MICHEL	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 373 2023: 252 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 264 (2012) → 252 (2023): -4.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 276 (1990) → 252 (2023): -8.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 155, of which 11.6 % second homes and 10.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 4.7 km NWBakery — 6.5 km SEGP — 8.5 km WPharmacy — 8.7 km W 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 (Viozan): 6.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Ponsampère): 4.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Miélan): 8.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Miélan): 8.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Michel): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 34.6

Days at or below 0 °C 27.6

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 35 days a year at or above 30 °C and 28 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the SADEILLAN weather station, 6.2 km away at 263 m; the village itself is at 179 m. ^[12]

The village sits 84 m below 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. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at MASSEUBE, 12.7 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, 6.2 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 — 32397/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32397/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32397/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32397/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32466
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32323
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32252
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32397
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
Calanhel	22	633 km NW	245	18.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 96 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Floret	63	318 km NE	243	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 59 % · humidity 36 %
Sarrant	32	57 km NE	358	23.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Fleuriel	03	385 km NE	336	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 53 % · humidity 43 %
Lizières	23	323 km N	234	11.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 81 % · humidity 50 %
Galgan	12	185 km NE	363	22	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 34 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sarrant	32	57 km NE	358	23.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Galgan	12	185 km NE	363	22	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 34 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Floret	63	318 km NE	243	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 59 % · humidity 36 %
Lizières	23	323 km N	234	11.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 81 % · humidity 50 %
Fleuriel	03	385 km NE	336	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 53 % · humidity 43 %
Calanhel	22	633 km NW	245	18.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 96 % · humidity 36 %

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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-Michel'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
Saint-Mézard	32	68 km N	240	19.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Payra-sur-l'Hers	11	118 km E	210	23.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Mauléon-d'Armagnac	32	70 km NW	265	19.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Sainte-Dode	32	4.2 km W	230	10.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Castelnau-d'Arbieu	32	56 km NE	223	19.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Médard	32	7.8 km NE	343	32.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

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