Benquet

Landes · CA Mont de Marsan Agglomération · INSEE 40037

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

Partly served 42.2/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 48 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Benquet (INSEE 40037) is in Landes (40), part of CA Mont de Marsan Agglomération. Population 1,913 (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/40037-benquet

Vitality score

Vitality score 42.2/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 48 % of the 9,882 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	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.59

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 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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]

2 × Restaurant (LE P TI GASCON · AU P'TIT GASCON). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE QUETZAL). ^[4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CAROLINE MONTRIEUL-PUCHAULT, MÉDECIN · PIERRE LE-VAN-GONG, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE CIEUTAT). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (BENQUET AP). ^[3]

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

1 × Hairdresser (SARAH COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[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]
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	2	LE P TI GASCON · AU P'TIT GASCON	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE QUETZAL	INSEE SIRENE 1 [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)	2	CAROLINE MONTRIEUL-PUCHAULT, MÉDECIN · PIERRE LE-VAN-GONG, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE CIEUTAT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	BENQUET AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MEDIATHEQUE DE BENQUET	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	SARAH COIFFURE	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: 828 2023: 1,913 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,557 (2012) → 1,913 (2023): 22.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,240 (1990) → 1,913 (2023): 54.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 876, of which 4.1 % second homes and 4.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 0.8 km NFood shop — 2.8 km NWBakery — 3.6 km N 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-Pierre-du-Mont): 3.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Haut-Mauco): 2.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Benquet): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Benquet): 0.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Benquet): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

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, 2.4 km away at 77 m; the village itself is at 66 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at MONT-DE-MARSAN, 8.9 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, 2.4 km away at 77 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40037/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40037/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40037/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40037/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40281
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40122
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40037
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
Mons	30	375 km E	1,813	34.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 72 % · humidity 64 %
Meursac	17	204 km N	1,563	39.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 70 % · humidity 71 %
Issé	44	428 km N	1,856	47.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 44 % · winter 96 %
La Forest-Landerneau	29	590 km NW	2,018	39.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 54 % · humidity 36 %
Teillé	44	408 km N	1,824	44.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 91 % · humidity 43 %
Mercurol-Veaunes	26	450 km E	2,816	43.9	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 91 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Meursac	17	204 km N	1,563	39.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 70 % · humidity 71 %
Mons	30	375 km E	1,813	34.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 72 % · humidity 64 %
Teillé	44	408 km N	1,824	44.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 91 % · humidity 43 %
Issé	44	428 km N	1,856	47.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 44 % · winter 96 %
Mercurol-Veaunes	26	450 km E	2,816	43.9	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 91 % · humidity 43 %
La Forest-Landerneau	29	590 km NW	2,018	39.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 54 % · humidity 36 %

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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 Benquet'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
Gardonne	24	130 km NE	1,608	47.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Arthez-de-Béarn	64	42 km S	1,837	55.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Pierre-d'Eyraud	24	131 km NE	1,795	36.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Creysse	24	142 km NE	1,743	54	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Reignac	33	156 km N	1,628	46.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Cours-de-Pile	24	140 km NE	1,585	33.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

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