Hinx

Landes · CC Terres de Chalosse · INSEE 40126

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

Partly served 55.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 85 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Hinx (INSEE 40126) is in Landes (40), part of CC Terres de Chalosse. Population 1,894 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/40126-hinx

Vitality score

Vitality score 55.2/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 85 % of the 9,958 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	0.47	25	11.83
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.59	10	5.85
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.73

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (DUPORTE). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (ETABLISSEMENT BIGNALET). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (CARREFOUR EXPRESS). ^[3,4]

4 × Restaurant (UN CHEF EN VADROUILLE · AU FERLEO · L'ARENA · LA CASA DI PAPA). ^[3,4]

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

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (STEPHANE LE MOUEL, MÉDECIN · LAURENT WILBROD, MÉDECIN · MARC GIRAUDEAU, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

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

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (MELISANDE COIFFURE · L ATELIER COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Butcher (boucherie), 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Pharmacy.

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	DUPORTE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	ETABLISSEMENT BIGNALET	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	CARREFOUR EXPRESS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	4	UN CHEF EN VADROUILLE · AU FERLEO · L'ARENA · LA CASA DI PAPA	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [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)	3	STEPHANE LE MOUEL, MÉDECIN · LAURENT WILBROD, MÉDECIN · MARC GIRAUDEAU, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MEDIATHEQUE DE HINX	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	3	MELISANDE COIFFURE · L ATELIER COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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: 756 2023: 1,894 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,849 (2012) → 1,894 (2023): 2.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,117 (1990) → 1,894 (2023): 69.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 926, of which 2.7 % second homes and 6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 5.8 km W 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 (Hinx): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Hinx): 0.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Hinx): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saugnac-et-Cambran): 5.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Hinx): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

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, 3.3 km away at 47 m; the village itself is at 48 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at DAX, 11.6 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, 3.3 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 — 40126/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40126/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40126/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40126/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40126
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40294
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
Saint-Aubin	39	613 km NE	1,871	50.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 64 % · humidity 0 %
Renwez	08	801 km NE	1,656	44.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 26 % · humidity 0 %
Plélan-le-Petit	22	535 km N	1,992	50.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 96 % · humidity 0 %
Cenon-sur-Vienne	86	360 km N	1,666	42.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 86 % · humidity 21 %
Jussac	15	302 km NE	2,040	47.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 11 % · humidity 0 %
Levier	25	658 km NE	2,400	55.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 0 % · humidity 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Jussac	15	302 km NE	2,040	47.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 11 % · humidity 0 %
Cenon-sur-Vienne	86	360 km N	1,666	42.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 86 % · humidity 21 %
Plélan-le-Petit	22	535 km N	1,992	50.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 96 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Aubin	39	613 km NE	1,871	50.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 64 % · humidity 0 %
Levier	25	658 km NE	2,400	55.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 0 % · humidity 0 %
Renwez	08	801 km NE	1,656	44.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 26 % · 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 Hinx'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
Grenade-sur-l'Adour	40	41 km E	2,398	59.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Magescq	40	25 km W	2,698	54.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Sauveterre-de-Béarn	64	34 km S	1,375	62.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Geours-de-Maremne	40	24 km W	3,089	48	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Cazères-sur-l'Adour	40	50 km E	1,128	30.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Gondrin	32	96 km E	1,175	43.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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