Talais

Gironde · CC Médoc Atlantique · INSEE 33521

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

Partly served 45.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 83 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Talais (INSEE 33521) is in Gironde (33), part of CC Médoc Atlantique. Population 764 (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/33521-talais

Vitality score

Vitality score 45.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 83 % of the 15,928 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0.5	20	9.93
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.78	10	7.75
Housing mix	0.44	5	2.21

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 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 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE FOURNIL DE NICOLAS ET CELINE). ^[3,4]

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

5 × Restaurant (SARL ETC · LA KABANE · CASTERA). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (TALAIS AP). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 3 × Restaurant, 1 × Campsite.

Not found in the commune: 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)	1	LE FOURNIL DE NICOLAS ET CELINE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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	5	SARL ETC · LA KABANE · CASTERA	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 10 [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	1	TALAIS AP	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	2		INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 549 2023: 764 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 683 (2012) → 764 (2023): 11.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 599 (1990) → 764 (2023): 27.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 578, of which 27.9 % second homes and 7.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery Primary school — 0.5 km SWFood shop — 4.8 km SWGP — 5.0 km SPharmacy — 5.1 km S 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 (Talais): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Grayan-et-l'Hôpital): 4.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Vivien-de-Médoc): 5 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Vivien-de-Médoc): 5.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Talais): 0.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 13.5

Days at or below 0 °C 15.8▸

Muggy days a summer 4.9

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 14 days a year at or above 30 °C and 16 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LE VERDON-SUR-M weather station, 8 km away at 6 m; the village itself is at 6 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at VENDAYS-MONTALIVE, 11.5 km away at 6 m, over 23 summers. ^[11]

An average of 822 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LE VERDON-SUR-M, 8 km away at 6 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33521/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33521/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33521/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33521/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33521
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33193
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33490
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
Serraval	74	576 km E	758	43.9	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 0 %
Bias	40	148 km S	809	46.7	Partly served	no figures
Saint-Antonin-du-Var	83	622 km E	870	50.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Le Poët-Laval	26	488 km E	954	51.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 13 % · winter 64 % · humidity 86 %
Cardaillac	46	256 km E	623	44.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 69 % · humidity 86 %
Clans	06	668 km E	703	50.6	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 99 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bias	40	148 km S	809	46.7	Partly served	no figures
Cardaillac	46	256 km E	623	44.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 69 % · humidity 86 %
Le Poët-Laval	26	488 km E	954	51.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 13 % · winter 64 % · humidity 86 %
Serraval	74	576 km E	758	43.9	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 0 %
Saint-Antonin-du-Var	83	622 km E	870	50.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Clans	06	668 km E	703	50.6	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 99 % · 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 Talais'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
Grézac	17	22 km NE	955	43.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Arces	17	18 km NE	716	32	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Tourtoirac	24	167 km E	636	40.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Chenac-Saint-Seurin-d'Uzet	17	19 km E	606	27.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Rutali	2B	892 km E	531	42.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Le Chay	17	22 km NE	840	34.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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