Arue

Landes · CC des Landes d'Armagnac · INSEE 40014

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

Few services 20.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 41 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Arue (INSEE 40014) is in Landes (40), part of CC des Landes d'Armagnac. Population 356 (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/40014-arue

Vitality score

Vitality score 20.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 41 % of the 18,059 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	0.73	10	7.28
Housing mix	0.81	5	4.07

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

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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: 425 2023: 356 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 310 (2012) → 356 (2023): 14.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 290 (1990) → 356 (2023): 22.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 194, of which 9.3 % second homes and 5.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Pharmacy — 3.6 km SEFood shop — 3.7 km SEGP — 3.7 km SEBakery — 10.3 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 (Pouydesseaux): 10.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Roquefort): 3.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Roquefort): 3.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Roquefort): 3.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Arue): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 47.4▸

Days at or below 0 °C 61.1

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 47 days a year at or above 30 °C and 61 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ROQUEFORT weather station, 3.1 km away at 77 m; the village itself is at 86 m. ^[11]

An average of 926 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 7.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ROQUEFORT, 3.1 km away at 77 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 — 40014/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40014/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40014/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40014/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40234
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40245
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40014
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
Le Plessis-Sainte-Opportune	27	565 km N	351	22.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 3 % · winter 97 %
Challignac	16	152 km N	335	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 49 % · winter 85 %
Meux	17	154 km N	327	19	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 36 % · winter 57 %
Fargues	40	38 km S	314	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 82 % · winter 66 %
Bois-Normand-près-Lyre	27	544 km N	369	18.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 13 % · winter 96 %
Saint-Gor	40	8.7 km E	308	21.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Gor	40	8.7 km E	308	21.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 100 %
Fargues	40	38 km S	314	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 82 % · winter 66 %
Challignac	16	152 km N	335	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 49 % · winter 85 %
Meux	17	154 km N	327	19	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 36 % · winter 57 %
Bois-Normand-près-Lyre	27	544 km N	369	18.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 13 % · winter 96 %
Le Plessis-Sainte-Opportune	27	565 km N	351	22.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 3 % · winter 97 %

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