Aurice

Landes · CC Chalosse Tursan · INSEE 40020

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

Few services 25.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 36 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Aurice (INSEE 40020) is in Landes (40), part of CC Chalosse Tursan. Population 633 (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/40020-aurice

Vitality score

Vitality score 25.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 36 % of the 16,798 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.54	10	5.38
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.72

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (SARL GARILLON). ^[3,4]

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

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

Not found in the commune: 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)	1	SARL GARILLON	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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]
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	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 541 peak 2007: 649 2023: 633 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 634 (2012) → 633 (2023): -0.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 610 (1990) → 633 (2023): 3.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 324, of which 2.8 % second homes and 10.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 0.6 km NEGP — 4.2 km EFood shop — 5.5 km SEPharmacy — 7.0 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 (Aurice): 0.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Sever): 5.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Haut-Mauco): 4.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Sever): 7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Aurice): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 34.4

Days at or below 0 °C 44.8

Muggy days a summer 9.7

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 34 days a year at or above 30 °C and 45 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the BENQUET weather station, 6.1 km away at 77 m; the village itself is at 70 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 10 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at MONT-DE-MARSAN, 13.4 km away at 59 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 996 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 7.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at BENQUET, 6.1 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 — 40020/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40020/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40020/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40020/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40020
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40282
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40122
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
Gunstett	67	856 km NE	633	27.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 74 % · humidity 43 %
Butten	67	829 km NE	640	23.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 89 % · humidity 36 %
Villemotier	01	544 km NE	612	32.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 76 % · humidity 50 %
Hessenheim	67	796 km NE	614	29.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 78 % · humidity 43 %
Le Bocasse	76	657 km N	654	25.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 85 % · humidity 36 %
Matougues	51	685 km NE	636	24.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 91 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Villemotier	01	544 km NE	612	32.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 76 % · humidity 50 %
Le Bocasse	76	657 km N	654	25.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 85 % · humidity 36 %
Matougues	51	685 km NE	636	24.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 91 % · humidity 43 %
Hessenheim	67	796 km NE	614	29.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 78 % · humidity 43 %
Butten	67	829 km NE	640	23.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 89 % · humidity 36 %
Gunstett	67	856 km NE	633	27.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 74 % · humidity 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 Aurice'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
Saint-Pardon-de-Conques	33	89 km N	663	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-de-Sescas	33	92 km N	558	22.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Estibeaux	40	34 km SW	699	23.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Puydaniel	31	173 km E	575	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Dolmayrac	47	113 km NE	719	22.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Bieujac	33	88 km NE	654	31.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

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