Valeyrac

Gironde · CC Médoc Atlantique · INSEE 33538

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

Few services 37.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 77 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Valeyrac (INSEE 33538) is in Gironde (33), part of CC Médoc Atlantique. Population 552 (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/33538-valeyrac

Vitality score

Vitality score 37.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 77 % of the 17,500 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	0.91	10	9.08
Housing mix	0.71	5	3.54

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) (VAL'ERIC). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (L INSTANT GOURMET PAR FLORIAN). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (VALEYRAC AP). ^[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	VAL'ERIC	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	L INSTANT GOURMET PAR FLORIAN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	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	VALEYRAC 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	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	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: 462 2023: 552 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 529 (2012) → 552 (2023): 4.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 392 (1990) → 552 (2023): 40.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 343, of which 14.6 % second homes and 12.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 4.4 km SPharmacy — 4.4 km SBakery — 7.3 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 (Queyrac): 7.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

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

GP (Bégadan): 4.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Bégadan): 4.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Valeyrac): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21.8

Days at or below 0 °C 37.3

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 37 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LESPARRE MEDOC weather station, 9.8 km away at 14 m; the village itself is at 7 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at VENDAYS-MONTALIVE, 17.5 km away at 6 m, over 23 summers. ^[11]

An average of 847 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LESPARRE MEDOC, 9.8 km away at 14 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 — 33538/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33538/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33538/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33538/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33348
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33538
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33038
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
Lessac	16	143 km NE	549	35.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Le Cloître-Pleyben	29	391 km NW	502	32.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 82 % · humidity 71 %
Albaret-Sainte-Marie	48	330 km E	559	42.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 0 %
Saint-Bérain-sur-Dheune	71	452 km E	538	35.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 74 % · humidity 71 %
Calviac-en-Périgord	24	185 km E	546	37.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Moussey	57	686 km NE	559	31.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Lessac	16	143 km NE	549	35.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Calviac-en-Périgord	24	185 km E	546	37.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Albaret-Sainte-Marie	48	330 km E	559	42.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 0 %
Le Cloître-Pleyben	29	391 km NW	502	32.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 82 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Bérain-sur-Dheune	71	452 km E	538	35.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 74 % · humidity 71 %
Moussey	57	686 km NE	559	31.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 43 %

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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 Valeyrac'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
Lessac	16	143 km NE	549	35.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Les Sièges	89	457 km NE	439	34.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Chénas	69	445 km E	533	35.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Sanxay	86	140 km NE	548	36.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Nieul-le-Virouil	17	29 km E	573	27.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Rabier	24	162 km E	538	33.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

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