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Saint-Avit-de-Soulège

Gironde · CC du Pays Foyen · INSEE 33377

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

No daily shops 8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 15 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Avit-de-Soulège (INSEE 33377) is in Gironde (33), part of CC du Pays Foyen. Population 83 (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/33377-saint-avit-de-soulege

Vitality score

Vitality score 8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 15 % of the 8,780 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 trend0.43104.33
Housing mix0.552.5

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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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: 90 peak 1999: 93 2023: 83 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 78 (2012) → 83 (2023): 6.4 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 89 (1990) → 83 (2023): -6.7 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 48, of which 25 % second homes and 4.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 2.3 km NE (Eynesse)Primary school — 2.6 km NE (Eynesse)Bakery — 3.6 km W (Gensac)Pharmacy — 4.0 km NE (Saint-Antoine-de-Breuilh)GP — 4.4 km W (Gensac)
Food shop — 2.3 km NEPrimary school — 2.6 km NEBakery — 3.6 km WPharmacy — 4.0 km NEGP — 4.4 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 (Gensac): 3.6 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Eynesse): 2.3 km to the north-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Gensac): 4.4 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Antoine-de-Breuilh): 4 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Eynesse): 2.6 km to the north-east (straight line). [9]

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, 7.9 km away at 80 m; the village itself is at 86 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, 7.9 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 — 33377/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33377/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33377/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33377/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 33186
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 33160
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 24370
  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
Castillon (Canton de Lembeye)64150 km S8312.3No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 57 %
Montagagne09229 km SE8214.7No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 44 % · winter 20 %
Lubbon4080 km S857.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 95 %
Lavaur2474 km E856.9No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 81 %
Saint-Nazaire-des-Gardies30323 km E8011.7No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 23 % · winter 89 %
Saint-Antoine15175 km E844.2No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 99 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Lavaur2474 km E856.9No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 81 %
Lubbon4080 km S857.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 95 %
Castillon (Canton de Lembeye)64150 km S8312.3No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 57 %
Saint-Antoine15175 km E844.2No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 99 %
Montagagne09229 km SE8214.7No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 44 % · winter 20 %
Saint-Nazaire-des-Gardies30323 km E8011.7No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 23 % · winter 89 %

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