Bégadan

Gironde · CC Médoc Coeur de Presqu'île · INSEE 33038

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

Few services 36.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 58 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bégadan (INSEE 33038) is in Gironde (33), part of CC Médoc Coeur de Presqu'île. Population 893 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[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/33038-begadan

Vitality score

Vitality score 36.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 58 % of the 14,984 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.82	10	8.16
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.48	10	4.78
Housing mix	0.7	5	3.48

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[3,4]

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

7 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ADRIEN TAFFORET, MÉDECIN · SERVANE LACOSTE, MÉDECIN · MARIE DELAUNAY, MÉDECIN · MARION LE MOUROUX, MÉDECIN · PIERRE-HENRI GORIOUX, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE L'EGLISE). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (BEGADAN AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BÉGADAN). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (S & L COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (HOTEL ROLLAN DE BY). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[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)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	7	ADRIEN TAFFORET, MÉDECIN · SERVANE LACOSTE, MÉDECIN · MARIE DELAUNAY, MÉDECIN · MARION LE MOUROUX, MÉDECIN · PIERRE-HENRI GORIOUX, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 7 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE L'EGLISE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	BEGADAN AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BÉGADAN	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	1	S & L COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	HOTEL ROLLAN DE BY	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 932 2023: 893 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 919 (2012) → 893 (2023): -2.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 913 (1990) → 893 (2023): -2.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 585, of which 15.2 % second homes and 9.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, GP, Pharmacy Primary school — 0.5 km NBakery — 3.7 km SE 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 (Blaignan-Prignac): 3.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bégadan): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Bégadan): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Bégadan): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Bégadan): 0.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21.8

Days at or below 0 °C 37.3

Muggy days a summer 4.9

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 37 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LESPARRE MEDOC weather station, 5.7 km away at 14 m; the village itself is at 9 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at VENDAYS-MONTALIVE, 17.8 km away at 6 m, over 23 summers. ^[10]

An average of 847 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LESPARRE MEDOC, 5.7 km away at 14 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33038/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33038/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33038/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33038/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33055
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33038
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
Maslacq	64	214 km S	891	41.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 14 %
Saint-Bonnet-sur-Gironde	17	18 km E	859	35.7	Few services	no figures
Prisches	59	630 km NE	1,000	31.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 81 % · humidity 71 %
La Bachellerie	24	162 km E	891	46	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Eygurande	19	263 km E	678	34.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 1 % · humidity 64 %
Luzillé	37	260 km NE	987	37.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Bonnet-sur-Gironde	17	18 km E	859	35.7	Few services	no figures
La Bachellerie	24	162 km E	891	46	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Maslacq	64	214 km S	891	41.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 14 %
Luzillé	37	260 km NE	987	37.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Eygurande	19	263 km E	678	34.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 1 % · humidity 64 %
Prisches	59	630 km NE	1,000	31.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 81 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Bégadan'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
La Bachellerie	24	162 km E	891	46	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Monts-sur-Guesnes	86	193 km NE	921	51.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Le Grand-Pressigny	37	218 km NE	872	49.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Brizambourg	17	61 km NE	997	54.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Ayron	86	163 km NE	1,085	39	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Clion	36	241 km NE	1,015	31.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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