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Sère

Gers · CC Val de Gers · INSEE 32430

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 6.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 9 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sère (INSEE 32430) is in Gers (32), part of CC Val de Gers. Population 78 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/32430-sere

Vitality score

Vitality score 6.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 9 % of the 8,292 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.27102.72
Housing mix0.5952.96

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 78 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 89 (2012) → 78 (2023): -12.4 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 101 (1990) → 78 (2023): -22.8 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 54, of which 20.4 % second homes and 5.6 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmFood shop — 2.8 km S (Aussos)Bakery — 5.9 km W (Masseube)GP — 5.9 km W (Masseube)Pharmacy — 6.1 km NW (Masseube)Primary school — 6.4 km W (Masseube)
Food shop — 2.8 km SBakery — 5.9 km WGP — 5.9 km WPharmacy — 6.1 km NWPrimary school — 6.4 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 (Masseube): 5.9 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Aussos): 2.8 km to the south (straight line). [9]

GP (Masseube): 5.9 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Masseube): 6.1 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Masseube): 6.4 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 30 days a year at or above 30 °C and 43 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the MONCORNEIL weather station, 3.5 km away at 244 m; the village itself is at 225 m. [10]

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

Humidity measured at MASSEUBE, 6.9 km away at 217 m, over 10 summers. [10]

An average of 792 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at MONCORNEIL, 3.5 km away at 244 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32430/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32430/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32430/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 32430/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 32242
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 32468
  10. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Mouron08728 km NE7810.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 84 %
Dombasle-devant-Darney88672 km NE786.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 81 % · humidity 43 %
Turgon16283 km N806.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 88 % · humidity 50 %
Monviel47129 km N767.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 80 % · humidity 79 %
Véry55732 km NE795.8No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 95 % · humidity 43 %
Montmeillant08753 km N788.4No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 51 % · winter 57 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Monviel47129 km N767.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 80 % · humidity 79 %
Turgon16283 km N806.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 88 % · humidity 50 %
Dombasle-devant-Darney88672 km NE786.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 81 % · humidity 43 %
Mouron08728 km NE7810.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 84 %
Véry55732 km NE795.8No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 95 % · humidity 43 %
Montmeillant08753 km N788.4No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 51 % · winter 57 %

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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 Sère'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Lamaguère329.0 km N819.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Montauriol1197 km E8511No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Gouzens3150 km SE8113.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Betcave-Aguin324.7 km NE929.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Gourvieille1192 km E6815.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Cazaux-Villecomtal3239 km W727.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %