Castelnau-Chalosse

Landes · CC Coteaux et Vallées des Luys · INSEE 40071

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

Partly served 40.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 80 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Castelnau-Chalosse (INSEE 40071) is in Landes (40), part of CC Coteaux et Vallées des Luys. Population 593 (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/40071-castelnau-chalosse

Vitality score

Vitality score 40.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 80 % of the 17,106 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.76	10	7.56
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.7

Services

What is here, at a glance

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

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (SARL LAPEYRE SEQUE · BABE PIZZAS). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (MEDIATHEQUE DE CASTELNAU-CHALOSSE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), 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)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	2	SARL LAPEYRE SEQUE · BABE PIZZAS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	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 CASTELNAU-CHALOSSE	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	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: 517 peak 2017: 601 2023: 593 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 592 (2012) → 593 (2023): 0.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 472 (1990) → 593 (2023): 25.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 298, of which 3 % second homes and 9.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 3.1 km SGP — 4.5 km SPharmacy — 4.5 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 (Pomarez): 3.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Castelnau-Chalosse): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Pomarez): 4.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Pomarez): 4.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Castelnau-Chalosse): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 36.1

Days at or below 0 °C 33.4

Muggy days a summer 15.8▸

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 36 days a year at or above 30 °C and 33 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the POYARTIN weather station, 5.3 km away at 47 m; the village itself is at 76 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 16 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at DAX, 18.3 km away at 31 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,171 mm of rain a year, spread over 129 days — about 9.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at POYARTIN, 5.3 km away at 47 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40071/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40071/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40071/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40071/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40228
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40071
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
Hilbesheim	57	834 km NE	617	40.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 43 % · humidity 0 %
Marcenod	42	472 km NE	698	40.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 57 % · humidity 0 %
Fouchères	10	637 km NE	503	38.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 65 % · humidity 7 %
Bazus	31	190 km E	603	32.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 29 %
Capian	33	123 km N	809	38.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 95 % · humidity 29 %
Labastide-Monréjeau	64	40 km SE	591	34.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Labastide-Monréjeau	64	40 km SE	591	34.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Capian	33	123 km N	809	38.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 95 % · humidity 29 %
Bazus	31	190 km E	603	32.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 29 %
Marcenod	42	472 km NE	698	40.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 57 % · humidity 0 %
Fouchères	10	637 km NE	503	38.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 65 % · humidity 7 %
Hilbesheim	57	834 km NE	617	40.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 43 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Castelnau-Chalosse'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
Hagetaubin	64	25 km SE	568	31	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Poyartin	40	3.0 km NW	776	30.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Goos	40	8.4 km NW	531	37	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Le Vignau	40	46 km E	522	30.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Montsoué	40	28 km E	566	26.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Colombe	40	23 km E	633	37	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

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