Louchats

Gironde · CC du Sud Gironde · INSEE 33251

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

Partly served 51.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 93 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Louchats (INSEE 33251) is in Gironde (33), part of CC du Sud Gironde. Population 683 (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/33251-louchats

Vitality score

Vitality score 51.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 93 % of the 16,470 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.45

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 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 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 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUDIN GRAND MERE LAPEYRE). ^[3]

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

1 × Restaurant (BOBASKI). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

1 × Hairdresser (STYL'LIBRE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Supermarket, 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)	1	BOUDIN GRAND MERE LAPEYRE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	LM.EPICERIE	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	1	BOBASKI	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE LOUCHATS	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	1	STYL'LIBRE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 307 peak 2017: 724 2023: 683 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 704 (2012) → 683 (2023): -3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 425 (1990) → 683 (2023): 60.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 311, of which 5.5 % second homes and 3.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Pharmacy — 6.0 km WBakery — 6.1 km WGP — 6.5 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 (Hostens): 6.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Louchats): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Hostens): 6.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Hostens): 6 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Louchats): 0.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 37.9

Days at or below 0 °C 53.5

Muggy days a summer 11▸

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 38 days a year at or above 30 °C and 54 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CABANAC ET VILL weather station, 6.4 km away at 72 m; the village itself is at 72 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 11 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at SAUTERNES, 19.4 km away at 65 m, over 22 summers. ^[10]

An average of 879 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CABANAC ET VILL, 6.4 km away at 72 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 — 33251/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33251/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33251/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33251/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33202
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33251
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
Vesly	50	532 km N	728	52.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 5 % · winter 51 % · humidity 29 %
Labastide-Clermont	31	187 km SE	690	53.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 64 %
Parnans	26	456 km E	701	44.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 36 %
Diebolsheim	67	758 km NE	675	43.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 70 % · humidity 36 %
Navès	81	247 km SE	690	40.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Angliers	86	276 km N	612	50.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 99 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Labastide-Clermont	31	187 km SE	690	53.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 64 %
Navès	81	247 km SE	690	40.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Angliers	86	276 km N	612	50.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 99 % · humidity 43 %
Parnans	26	456 km E	701	44.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 36 %
Vesly	50	532 km N	728	52.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 5 % · winter 51 % · humidity 29 %
Diebolsheim	67	758 km NE	675	43.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 70 % · 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 Louchats'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
Brocas	40	52 km S	721	56.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Michel-de-Rieufret	33	16 km NE	868	45.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Avit	40	64 km S	684	54.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Labatut-Rivière	65	120 km SE	394	42.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Dolmayrac	47	94 km E	719	22.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Lunas	24	89 km NE	459	31.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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