Ruch

Gironde · CC Castillon/Pujols · INSEE 33361

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

Few services 34.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 70 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ruch (INSEE 33361) is in Gironde (33), part of CC Castillon/Pujols. Population 539 (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/33361-ruch

Vitality score

Vitality score 34.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 70 % of the 17,568 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.56	10	5.59
Housing mix	0.83	5	4.16

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Restaurant (LA GAMAGE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (RUCH BURALISTE LPR RP). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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)	1	LES GALERIES RUCHELAISES	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	LA GAMAGE	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE LOUIS DELOM SORBE	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	1	RUCH BURALISTE LPR RP	INSEE BPE 1 [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 SIRENE 2 / 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: 588 peak 2017: 600 2023: 539 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 598 (2012) → 539 (2023): -9.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 509 (1990) → 539 (2023): 5.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 309, of which 8.4 % second homes and 10.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 3.5 km NPharmacy — 4.0 km SWBakery — 4.6 km NW 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 (Saint-Pey-de-Castets): 4.6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

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

GP (Pujols): 3.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Blasimon): 4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Ruch): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.2

Days at or below 0 °C 32.6

Muggy days a summer 6.7

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 33 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the SAUVETERRE-DE-G weather station, 9.6 km away at 75 m; the village itself is at 70 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ST SULPICE DE POMMIERS, 12 km away at 82 m, over 23 summers. ^[12]

An average of 792 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at SAUVETERRE-DE-G, 9.6 km away at 75 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 — 33361/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33361/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33361/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33361/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33460
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33361
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33344
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33057
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
Saint-Mars-sur-la-Futaie	53	413 km N	522	30.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 96 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Diéry	63	255 km E	546	38.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 58 % · humidity 50 %
Béthines	86	212 km N	467	31.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 76 % · humidity 86 %
Gesvres	53	400 km N	539	28.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 51 % · winter 77 %
Beaupouyet	24	35 km NE	553	34.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %
La Sauvetat	32	112 km SE	403	35.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Beaupouyet	24	35 km NE	553	34.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %
La Sauvetat	32	112 km SE	403	35.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 71 %
Béthines	86	212 km N	467	31.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 76 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Diéry	63	255 km E	546	38.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 58 % · humidity 50 %
Gesvres	53	400 km N	539	28.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 51 % · winter 77 %
Saint-Mars-sur-la-Futaie	53	413 km N	522	30.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 96 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Ruch'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
Guimps	16	78 km N	497	27.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Criteuil-la-Magdeleine	16	86 km N	405	25.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Lougratte	47	57 km E	421	42.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Côle	24	93 km NE	432	40.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Courpignac	17	70 km NW	421	28.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Authon-Ébéon	17	121 km N	410	18.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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