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Riocaud

Gironde · CC du Pays Foyen · INSEE 33354

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

No daily shops 13.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 30 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Riocaud (INSEE 33354) is in Gironde (33), part of CC du Pays Foyen. Population 195 (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/33354-riocaud

Vitality score

Vitality score 13.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 30 % of the 15,840 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 trend0.69106.89
Housing mix0.8654.32

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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 215 2023: 195 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 195 (2012) → 195 (2023): 0 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 164 (1990) → 195 (2023): 18.9 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 103, of which 6.8 % second homes and 13.6 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 3.3 km NE (La Roquille)GP — 3.8 km SE (Villeneuve-de-Duras)Food shop — 6.9 km N (Pineuilh)Bakery — 7.4 km N (Pineuilh)Pharmacy — 7.4 km N (Pineuilh)
Primary school — 3.3 km NEGP — 3.8 km SEFood shop — 6.9 km NBakery — 7.4 km NPharmacy — 7.4 km N 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 (Pineuilh): 7.4 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Pineuilh): 6.9 km to the north (straight line). [8]

GP (Villeneuve-de-Duras): 3.8 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Pineuilh): 7.4 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Primary school (La Roquille): 3.3 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

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 34 days a year at or above 30 °C and 52 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the LES LEVES THOUM weather station, 0.9 km away at 80 m; the village itself is at 83 m. [11]

An average of 819 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at LES LEVES THOUM, 0.9 km away at 80 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33354/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33354/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33354/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33354/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 33324
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 47321
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 33360
  11. 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
Mont-de-Laval25564 km NE19413.4No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 33 % · winter 11 %
Bursard61420 km N19911.4No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 36 % · winter 97 %
Cordesse71408 km NE19414.2No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 58 %
Villexanton41344 km N19813.7No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 67 % · winter 96 %
Sainte-Radégonde86211 km N18712.2No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 89 %
Montlay-en-Auxois21426 km NE19916.6No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 54 % · winter 89 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Sainte-Radégonde86211 km N18712.2No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 89 %
Villexanton41344 km N19813.7No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 67 % · winter 96 %
Cordesse71408 km NE19414.2No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 58 %
Bursard61420 km N19911.4No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 36 % · winter 97 %
Montlay-en-Auxois21426 km NE19916.6No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 54 % · winter 89 %
Mont-de-Laval25564 km NE19413.4No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 33 % · winter 11 %

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