Virelade

Gironde · CC Convergence Garonne · INSEE 33552

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

Few services 38.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 55 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Virelade (INSEE 33552) is in Gironde (33), part of CC Convergence Garonne. Population 1,124 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). ^[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/33552-virelade

Vitality score

Vitality score 38.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 55 % of the 13,640 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	0.7	20	14.09
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.98	5	4.9

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 1 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (O TERRE-MER · BRESAN). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (LA PALMERAIE). ^[4]

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

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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 [3,4]
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	3	O TERRE-MER · BRESAN	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	LA PALMERAIE	INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 559 2023: 1,124 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 959 (2012) → 1,124 (2023): 17.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 734 (1990) → 1,124 (2023): 53.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 499, of which 1 % second homes and 4.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 0.6 km SBakery — 1.2 km NWFood shop — 1.7 km SEGP — 1.7 km SEPharmacy — 1.7 km SE 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 (Arbanats): 1.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Podensac): 1.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Podensac): 1.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Podensac): 1.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Virelade): 0.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.1

Days at or below 0 °C 22.6

Muggy days a summer 13▸

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 23 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CURSAN weather station, 13.8 km away at 94 m; the village itself is at 12 m. ^[11]

The village sits 82 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 4.94 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 13 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at SAUTERNES, 14.4 km away at 65 m, over 22 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 53 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 807 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at TARGON, 11.9 km away at 61 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 — 33552/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33552/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33552/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 33552/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33007
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33327
INSEE BPE 2025 — 33552
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
Angy	60	558 km N	1,124	37	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 50 % · humidity 14 %
Béard-Géovreissiat	01	493 km E	1,048	26.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 0 % · humidity 7 %
Durrenentzen	68	714 km NE	1,062	26.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 36 % · humidity 21 %
Barembach	67	719 km NE	810	32.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 72 % · humidity 21 %
Saintines	60	568 km NE	1,060	29.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 76 % · humidity 14 %
Apach	57	738 km NE	1,072	24.6	Few services	no figures

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Béard-Géovreissiat	01	493 km E	1,048	26.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 0 % · humidity 7 %
Angy	60	558 km N	1,124	37	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 50 % · humidity 14 %
Saintines	60	568 km NE	1,060	29.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 76 % · humidity 14 %
Durrenentzen	68	714 km NE	1,062	26.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 36 % · humidity 21 %
Barembach	67	719 km NE	810	32.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 72 % · humidity 21 %
Apach	57	738 km NE	1,072	24.6	Few services	no figures

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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 Virelade'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
Narcastet	64	158 km S	753	31.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Lée	64	154 km S	1,271	34.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Fargues	33	16 km SE	1,655	26.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Rontignon	64	156 km S	875	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Aressy	64	154 km S	881	47.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Arbus	64	149 km S	1,226	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

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