Carcarès-Sainte-Croix

Landes · CC du Pays Tarusate · INSEE 40066

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

Few services 23.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 36 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Carcarès-Sainte-Croix (INSEE 40066) is in Landes (40), part of CC du Pays Tarusate. Population 533 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 23.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 36 % of the 17,580 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.75	10	7.51
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.61

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

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE DE CARCARES SAINTE CROIX). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MULTIMEDIA MUNICIPALE DE CARCARES-SAINTE-CROIX). ^[3]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE DE CARCARES SAINTE CROIX	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	BIBLIOTHEQUE MULTIMEDIA MUNICIPALE DE CARCARES-SAINTE-CROIX	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 405 2023: 533 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 504 (2012) → 533 (2023): 5.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 426 (1990) → 533 (2023): 25.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 254, of which 3.9 % second homes and 3.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 1.5 km WBakery — 1.8 km SWFood shop — 1.8 km SWPharmacy — 7.5 km E 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 (Tartas): 1.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Tartas): 1.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Tartas): 1.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Meilhan): 7.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Carcarès-Sainte-Croix): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 42.7

Days at or below 0 °C 47.6

Muggy days a summer 8.4

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 43 days a year at or above 30 °C and 48 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the BEGAAR weather station, 3.7 km away at 19 m; the village itself is at 35 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 8 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at RION-DES-LANDES, 15.3 km away at 77 m, over 18 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,094 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 8.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at BEGAAR, 3.7 km away at 19 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 — 40066/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40066/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40066/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40066/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40313
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40180
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40066
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
Lagarde	65	89 km SE	530	22.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Maurice-en-Rivière	71	564 km NE	532	23.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 81 % · humidity 57 %
Fontaine-Henry	14	605 km N	528	22.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 61 % · humidity 50 %
Vaux-sur-Vienne	86	358 km N	538	20.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %
Marigné-Peuton	53	448 km N	543	22.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 95 % · humidity 57 %
Andelu	78	595 km N	550	26.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 93 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Lagarde	65	89 km SE	530	22.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Vaux-sur-Vienne	86	358 km N	538	20.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %
Marigné-Peuton	53	448 km N	543	22.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 95 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Maurice-en-Rivière	71	564 km NE	532	23.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 81 % · humidity 57 %
Andelu	78	595 km N	550	26.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 93 % · humidity 57 %
Fontaine-Henry	14	605 km N	528	22.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 61 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Carcarès-Sainte-Croix'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
Mézens	81	198 km E	536	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Bazus	31	186 km E	603	32.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Roumagne	47	125 km NE	539	31.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Lavergne	47	127 km NE	554	26.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Carcen-Ponson	40	4.6 km N	628	19.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Marthe	47	99 km NE	658	33.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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