Birac

Gironde · CC du Bazadais · INSEE 33053

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

Few services 30/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 84 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Birac (INSEE 33053) is in Gironde (33), part of CC du Bazadais. Population 240 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 30/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 84 % of the 17,060 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.83	10	8.33
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.51

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

A school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[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)	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)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 233 2023: 240 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 225 (2012) → 240 (2023): 6.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 180 (1990) → 240 (2023): 33.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 122, of which 4.9 % second homes and 7.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.1 km NGP — 5.6 km WFood shop — 5.8 km WPharmacy — 8.2 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 (Gajac): 2.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bazas): 5.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Bazas): 5.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Grignols): 8.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Birac): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 26.5

Days at or below 0 °C 28.6

Muggy days a summer 6.1

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 29 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the CAZATS weather station, 6.4 km away at 114 m; the village itself is at 126 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at CAZATS, 6.4 km away at 114 m, over 23 summers. ^[12]

An average of 831 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at CAZATS, 6.4 km away at 114 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 — 33053/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33053/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33053/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33053/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33178
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33036
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33195
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33053
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
Biron	17	131 km N	243	25.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 65 % · humidity 79 %
Munster	57	734 km NE	237	26.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 46 % · humidity 64 %
Tangry	62	698 km N	265	27.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 69 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Paul-de-Fourques	27	539 km N	277	31.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 56 % · winter 68 %
Gabat	64	137 km SW	274	28.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 29 %
Éclaibes	59	713 km NE	269	26.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 70 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Biron	17	131 km N	243	25.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 65 % · humidity 79 %
Gabat	64	137 km SW	274	28.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 29 %
Saint-Paul-de-Fourques	27	539 km N	277	31.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 56 % · winter 68 %
Tangry	62	698 km N	265	27.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 69 % · humidity 57 %
Éclaibes	59	713 km NE	269	26.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 70 % · humidity 64 %
Munster	57	734 km NE	237	26.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 46 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Birac'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
Castelviel	33	28 km N	205	26	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Gaujac	47	21 km E	241	15.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Sauveur-de-Meilhan	47	13 km NE	341	28.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Bagas	33	24 km N	283	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Couquèques	33	117 km NW	270	22.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Les Esseintes	33	22 km N	244	14.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

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