Gamarde-les-Bains

Landes · CC Terres de Chalosse · INSEE 40104

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

Partly served 45.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 62 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Gamarde-les-Bains (INSEE 40104) is in Landes (40), part of CC Terres de Chalosse. Population 1,583 (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/40104-gamarde-les-bains

Vitality score

Vitality score 45.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 62 % of the 11,224 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.63	20	12.58
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.2	10	1.97
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 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (API GAMARDES LES BAINS). ^[3,4]

4 × Restaurant (LA FAMIGLIA · L ESTANQUET DU CHEF · BE FULL). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (MOURAD FERCHICHI, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (GAMARDE LES BAINS AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE DE GAMARDE). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (STUDIO C). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (HOTEL L'AUBERGE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy. ^[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	API GAMARDES LES BAINS	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	4	LA FAMIGLIA · L ESTANQUET DU CHEF · BE FULL	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		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)	1	MOURAD FERCHICHI, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	GAMARDE LES BAINS AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE DE GAMARDE	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	2	STUDIO C	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	HOTEL L'AUBERGE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 877 2023: 1,583 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,127 (2012) → 1,583 (2023): 40.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 857 (1990) → 1,583 (2023): 84.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 712, of which 4.1 % second homes and 6.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune GP Food shop — 0.5 km NWPrimary school — 1.2 km NWBakery — 2.4 km WPharmacy — 3.5 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 (Goos): 2.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Gamarde-les-Bains): 0.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Gamarde-les-Bains): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Montfort-en-Chalosse): 3.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Gamarde-les-Bains): 1.2 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 12.8▸

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. ^[11]

Measured at the POYARTIN weather station, 3.5 km away at 47 m; the village itself is at 85 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 13 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at DAX, 16.7 km away at 31 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 54 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 1,171 mm of rain a year, spread over 129 days — about 9.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at POYARTIN, 3.5 km away at 47 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 — 40104/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40104/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40104/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40104/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40113
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40104
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40194
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
Marsac-sur-Don	44	435 km N	1,524	42.5	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 38 % · winter 95 %
Rions	33	112 km N	1,470	41.1	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Denis-de-Gastines	53	513 km N	1,463	38.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 93 % · humidity 14 %
Saint-Éloy-de-Gy	18	456 km NE	1,581	44.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 78 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Carreuc	22	538 km N	1,576	33.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 92 % · humidity 14 %
Saint-Samson-sur-Rance	22	537 km N	1,625	36.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 28 % · winter 99 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Rions	33	112 km N	1,470	41.1	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Marsac-sur-Don	44	435 km N	1,524	42.5	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 38 % · winter 95 %
Saint-Éloy-de-Gy	18	456 km NE	1,581	44.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 78 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Denis-de-Gastines	53	513 km N	1,463	38.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 93 % · humidity 14 %
Saint-Samson-sur-Rance	22	537 km N	1,625	36.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 28 % · winter 99 %
Saint-Carreuc	22	538 km N	1,576	33.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 92 % · humidity 14 %

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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 Gamarde-les-Bains'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
Sorèze	81	239 km E	2,965	55.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Verdalle	81	245 km E	1,024	39.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Corbère-les-Cabanes	66	311 km E	1,213	39.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Mazerolles	64	45 km SE	1,194	51.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Castelnau d'Auzan Labarrère	32	80 km E	1,187	33.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Barsac	33	107 km NE	2,058	52.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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