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Ayguemorte-les-Graves

Gironde · CC de Montesquieu · INSEE 33023

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Partly served 40.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 51 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ayguemorte-les-Graves (INSEE 33023) is in Gironde (33), part of CC de Montesquieu. Population 1,425 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). [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/33023-ayguemorte-les-graves

Vitality score

Vitality score 40.3/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 51 % of the 12,015 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 food0.26256.56
Social0.2203.93
Education0.39103.93
Health0.5105
Public & culture050
Population trend11010
Housing mix0.9754.86

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6
Eating out 1 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 1 of 3
Health 1 of 4
Public services 0 of 1
Culture 0 of 2
Sport 0 of 2
Everyday services 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. [3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA PANETIERE ATELIER). [3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (SOCIETE ORIENTAL DE DISTRIBUTION ALIMENTAIRE 33 (EN ABREGE SODISAL33). [3,4]

1 × Restaurant (DUREST). [3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE L'AYGUE MARINE). [3]

48 × GP (médecin généraliste) (OLIVIER GAULT, MÉDECIN · DAVID FIDAHOUSSEN, MÉDECIN · JEAN HUMBERT, MÉDECIN · VINCENT TOSTAIN, MÉDECIN · FRANCK BIRABEN, MÉDECIN). [3]

1 × Hairdresser. [3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)1LA PANETIERE ATELIERINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)1SOCIETE ORIENTAL DE DISTRIBUTION ALIMENTAIRE 33 (EN ABREGE SODISAL33INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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]
Restaurant1DURESTINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE PRIMAIRE L'AYGUE MARINEINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)48OLIVIER GAULT, MÉDECIN · DAVID FIDAHOUSSEN, MÉDECIN · JEAN HUMBERT, MÉDECIN · VINCENT TOSTAIN, MÉDECIN · FRANCK BIRABEN, MÉDECININSEE BPE 48 [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]
Hairdresser1INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 360 2023: 1,425 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,026 (2012) → 1,425 (2023): 38.9 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 696 (1990) → 1,425 (2023): 104.7 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 574, of which 1.4 % second homes and 2.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 1.3 km S (Ayguemorte-les-Graves)GP — 1.5 km SE (Beautiran)Bakery — 2.3 km W (Saint-Médard-d'Eyrans)Pharmacy — 2.5 km W (Saint-Médard-d'Eyrans)
In the commune Primary school Food shop — 1.3 km SGP — 1.5 km SEBakery — 2.3 km WPharmacy — 2.5 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 (Saint-Médard-d'Eyrans): 2.3 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Ayguemorte-les-Graves): 1.3 km to the south (straight line). [9]

GP (Beautiran): 1.5 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Médard-d'Eyrans): 2.5 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Ayguemorte-les-Graves): 0 km to the east (straight line). [9]

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 25 days a year at or above 30 °C and 27 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the LATRESNE-INRAE weather station, 7.8 km away at 64 m; the village itself is at 10 m. [11]

The village sits 54 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 4.94 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at LATRESNE-INRAE, 7.8 km away at 64 m, over 18 summers. [11]

That station sits 54 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [11]

An average of 811 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at LATRESNE-INRAE, 7.8 km away at 64 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

What property sold for

71 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 346,000 € — 2,544 € per m² of built surface. [12]

The median across Gironde is 2,989 € per m², so this commune sits below it. [12]

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

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33023/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33023/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33023/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33023/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 33448
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 33023
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 33037
  11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
  12. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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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
Bellengreville14491 km N1,59836.7Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 84 % · humidity 57 %
Chaux90654 km NE1,18431.2Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 49 % · humidity 57 %
Chaudon28464 km N1,68833.9Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 84 % · humidity 57 %
Dasle25646 km NE1,36336.7Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 32 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Vincent-de-Mercuze38510 km E1,53253.5Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 68 %
Laveyron26420 km E1,25341Partly servedWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 72 % · humidity 64 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Laveyron26420 km E1,25341Partly servedWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 72 % · humidity 64 %
Chaudon28464 km N1,68833.9Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 84 % · humidity 57 %
Bellengreville14491 km N1,59836.7Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 84 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Vincent-de-Mercuze38510 km E1,53253.5Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 68 %
Dasle25646 km NE1,36336.7Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 32 % · humidity 57 %
Chaux90654 km NE1,18431.2Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 49 % · humidity 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 Ayguemorte-les-Graves'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
Arbanats337.8 km SE1,35731.8Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Agnos64172 km S1,04431.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Virsac3335 km N1,30435.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Montgailhard09260 km SE1,43742.8Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Ria-Sirach66329 km SE1,26439.6Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Cénac337.8 km N2,19544.3Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %