La Rivière

Gironde · CC du Fronsadais · INSEE 33356

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

Few services 29.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 63 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Rivière (INSEE 33356) is in Gironde (33), part of CC du Fronsadais. Population 409 (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/33356-la-riviere

Vitality score

Vitality score 29.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 63 % of the 17,978 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	0.77	10	7.7
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.51

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 × Restaurant (PASTOR Y NEVADO ISABEL). ^[3,4]

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, 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	1	PASTOR Y NEVADO ISABEL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 310 peak 2017: 423 2023: 409 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 363 (2012) → 409 (2023): 12.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 322 (1990) → 409 (2023): 27 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 206, of which 4.9 % second homes and 6.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 0.5 km NWPharmacy — 3.1 km EGP — 3.3 km EBakery — 3.7 km NWFood shop — 3.7 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 (Lugon-et-l'Île-du-Carnay): 3.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Villegouge): 3.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Fronsac): 3.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Fronsac): 3.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (La Rivière): 0.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.1

Days at or below 0 °C 39.7

Muggy days a summer 5.7

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 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the BEYCHAC ET CAIL weather station, 9 km away at 40 m; the village itself is at 7 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at ST EMILION, 9.8 km away at 38 m, over 19 summers. ^[12]

An average of 815 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at BEYCHAC ET CAIL, 9 km away at 40 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 — 33356/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33356/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33356/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33356/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33259
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33548
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33174
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33356
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
Airion	60	540 km N	409	24.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 73 % · humidity 64 %
Ladignac-sur-Rondelles	19	172 km E	404	25.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 49 % · humidity 64 %
Chantesse	38	453 km E	397	31.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 99 % · humidity 79 %
Pézarches	77	492 km NE	410	32.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Lactencin	36	259 km NE	405	25.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %
Hautot-sur-Seine	76	502 km N	399	27.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Ladignac-sur-Rondelles	19	172 km E	404	25.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 49 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Lactencin	36	259 km NE	405	25.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %
Chantesse	38	453 km E	397	31.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 99 % · humidity 79 %
Pézarches	77	492 km NE	410	32.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %
Hautot-sur-Seine	76	502 km N	399	27.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
Airion	60	540 km N	409	24.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 73 % · 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 La Rivière'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
Saint-Agne	24	75 km E	438	30.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Puybarban	33	46 km SE	407	29.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Salles-de-Barbezieux	16	59 km N	407	25.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Mons	17	99 km N	445	26.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Baigneaux	33	25 km S	451	32.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Brousse	81	233 km SE	438	32.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %

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