Saint-Palais

Gironde · CC de l'Estuaire · INSEE 33456

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

Few services 21.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 30 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Palais (INSEE 33456) is in Gironde (33), part of CC de l'Estuaire. Population 527 (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/33456-saint-palais

Vitality score

Vitality score 21.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 30 % of the 17,659 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.79	10	7.89
Housing mix	0.87	5	4.33

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 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 1 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, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Campsite (CAMPING CHEZ GENDRON). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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]
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	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING CHEZ GENDRON	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 452 2023: 527 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 506 (2012) → 527 (2023): 4.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 409 (1990) → 527 (2023): 28.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 269, of which 6.7 % second homes and 6.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.9 km SWFood shop — 2.9 km SWGP — 3.0 km SWPharmacy — 3.0 km SW 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-Ciers-sur-Gironde): 2.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Ciers-sur-Gironde): 2.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Ciers-sur-Gironde): 3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Ciers-sur-Gironde): 3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Palais): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 33.2

Days at or below 0 °C 41.2

Muggy days a summer 7.1

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 33 days a year at or above 30 °C and 41 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the DONNEZAC weather station, 14 km away at 62 m; the village itself is at 65 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at PAUILLAC, 18.7 km away at 26 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 858 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ETAULIERS, 10 km away at 7 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 — 33456/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33456/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33456/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33456/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33389
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33456
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
Meilhac	87	143 km E	529	24.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Yvrac-et-Malleyrand	16	94 km NE	559	22	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Pérignac	16	55 km E	495	18.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Renung	40	175 km S	483	19.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 93 % · humidity 50 %
Grateloup-Saint-Gayrand	47	126 km SE	469	18.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Haudricourt	76	521 km N	461	18.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 78 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Pérignac	16	55 km E	495	18.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Yvrac-et-Malleyrand	16	94 km NE	559	22	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Grateloup-Saint-Gayrand	47	126 km SE	469	18.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Meilhac	87	143 km E	529	24.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Renung	40	175 km S	483	19.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 93 % · humidity 50 %
Haudricourt	76	521 km N	461	18.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 78 % · 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 Saint-Palais'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
Grateloup-Saint-Gayrand	47	126 km SE	469	18.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Monségur	47	148 km SE	397	18.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Peyrole	81	259 km SE	545	31.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Bourlens	47	158 km SE	372	18	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Rémy	24	73 km SE	503	32.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Gensac-sur-Garonne	31	271 km SE	451	31.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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