Saint-Ost

Gers · CC Astarac Arros en Gascogne · INSEE 32401

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

No daily shops 16.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 71 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Ost (INSEE 32401) is in Gers (32), part of CC Astarac Arros en Gascogne. Population 95 (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 16.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 71 % of the 10,121 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	0.51	10	5.11
Housing mix	0.55	5	2.76

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 × Café / bar. ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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	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	1	INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 137 2023: 95 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 84 (2012) → 95 (2023): 13.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 94 (1990) → 95 (2023): 1.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 58, of which 22.4 % second homes and 0 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 1.3 km NPrimary school — 5.5 km NFood shop — 9.0 km SWPharmacy — 9.7 km SGP — 9.8 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 (Viozan): 1.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sadournin): 9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Castelnau-Magnoac): 9.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Castelnau-Magnoac): 9.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Élix-Theux): 5.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 33.7

Days at or below 0 °C 35.4

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

Measured at the SADEILLAN weather station, 10.1 km away at 263 m; the village itself is at 237 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at MASSEUBE, 10.5 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, 10.1 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 — 32401/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32401/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32401/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32401/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32466
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65383
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65129
INSEE BPE 2025 — 32375
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
Aubenas-les-Alpes	04	424 km E	90	21.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 27 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Créac	32	66 km NE	86	14	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Chanceaux-près-Loches	37	421 km N	109	13.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 84 % · humidity 50 %
Serres	11	158 km E	89	23.2	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 80 % · humidity 79 %
Arcon	42	398 km NE	106	13.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 30 % · humidity 57 %
Lisseuil	63	356 km NE	107	18.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 12 % · humidity 36 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Créac	32	66 km NE	86	14	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Serres	11	158 km E	89	23.2	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 80 % · humidity 79 %
Lisseuil	63	356 km NE	107	18.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 12 % · humidity 36 %
Arcon	42	398 km NE	106	13.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 30 % · humidity 57 %
Chanceaux-près-Loches	37	421 km N	109	13.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 84 % · humidity 50 %
Aubenas-les-Alpes	04	424 km E	90	21.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 27 % · 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-Ost'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
Betcave-Aguin	32	19 km E	92	9.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Mauvezin-d'Armagnac	40	80 km NW	105	18.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Mazières-Naresse	47	143 km N	96	4.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Belflou	11	107 km E	111	12.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Lamazère	32	20 km N	129	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Berrac	32	71 km N	110	10.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %

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