Bélus

Landes · CC Pays d'Orthe et Arrigans · INSEE 40034

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

Few services 33.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 64 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bélus (INSEE 40034) is in Landes (40), part of CC Pays d'Orthe et Arrigans. Population 615 (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/40034-belus

Vitality score

Vitality score 33.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 64 % of the 16,957 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.57

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

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

1 × Restaurant (O BORD DE L'EAU). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (MEDIATHEQUE DE BELUS). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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	1	O BORD DE L'EAU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	MEDIATHEQUE DE BELUS	INSEE BPE 1 [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	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: 445 2023: 615 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 606 (2012) → 615 (2023): 1.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 400 (1990) → 615 (2023): 53.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 299, of which 4.3 % second homes and 6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.2 km NWGP — 2.2 km NPharmacy — 2.7 km NWFood shop — 4.9 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 (Saint-Lon-les-Mines): 2.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Peyrehorade): 4.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Lon-les-Mines): 2.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Lon-les-Mines): 2.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Bélus): 0.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 19.8

Days at or below 0 °C 35.6

Muggy days a summer 11▸

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 20 days a year at or above 30 °C and 36 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the PEYREHORADE LER weather station, 5.8 km away at 5 m; the village itself is at 120 m. ^[11]

The village sits 115 m above 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 11 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at DAX, 11.4 km away at 31 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 89 m below 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 1,324 mm of rain a year, spread over 137 days — about 9.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at PEYREHORADE LER, 5.8 km away at 5 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 — 40034/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40034/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40034/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40034/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40269
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40224
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40034
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
La Petite-Boissière	79	367 km N	616	27.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 36 %
Bouafles	27	653 km N	628	29.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 29 %
Bretignolles	79	366 km N	592	29.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 36 %
Roullens	11	277 km E	588	33.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 84 % · humidity 71 %
Rosoy	60	696 km N	622	36.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 80 % · humidity 29 %
Bazus	31	212 km E	603	32.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 78 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bazus	31	212 km E	603	32.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 78 % · humidity 64 %
Roullens	11	277 km E	588	33.9	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 84 % · humidity 71 %
Bretignolles	79	366 km N	592	29.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 36 %
La Petite-Boissière	79	367 km N	616	27.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 36 %
Bouafles	27	653 km N	628	29.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 29 %
Rosoy	60	696 km N	622	36.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 80 % · humidity 29 %

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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 Bélus'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
Labastide-Monréjeau	64	52 km SE	591	34.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Cescau	64	53 km E	630	34.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Eysus	64	66 km SE	625	28.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Ouillon	64	78 km SE	553	33.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Armou	64	68 km E	609	28.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Barzun	64	90 km SE	626	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

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