Lamothe

Landes · CC du Pays Tarusate · INSEE 40143

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

No daily shops 17.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 35 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lamothe (INSEE 40143) is in Landes (40), part of CC du Pays Tarusate. Population 308 (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/40143-lamothe

Vitality score

Vitality score 17.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 35 % of the 17,889 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	0.34	10	3.39
Housing mix	0.73	5	3.63

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 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 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 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[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)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	LAMOTHE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	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: 274 peak 1990: 367 2023: 308 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 316 (2012) → 308 (2023): -2.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 367 (1990) → 308 (2023): -16.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 168, of which 13.7 % second homes and 5.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 4.0 km WPharmacy — 4.0 km WFood shop — 7.2 km EGP — 7.8 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 (Souprosse): 4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Sever): 7.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Sever): 7.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Souprosse): 4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 38.8

Days at or below 0 °C 28.8

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 39 days a year at or above 30 °C and 29 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the DOAZIT weather station, 9.6 km away at 95 m; the village itself is at 46 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at MONT-DE-MARSAN, 18.2 km away at 59 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,054 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 8.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at DOAZIT, 9.6 km away at 95 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 — 40143/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40143/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40143/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40143/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40309
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40282
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40143
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
Bourdons-sur-Rognon	52	672 km NE	293	19.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 22 % · humidity 43 %
Ambérac	16	236 km N	315	18	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 70 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Cyr-de-Valorges	42	456 km NE	304	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 59 % · humidity 86 %
Chambors	60	637 km N	300	17.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 73 % · humidity 36 %
Vouharte	16	232 km N	300	10.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 81 % · humidity 50 %
Baneuil	24	159 km NE	321	18.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 64 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Baneuil	24	159 km NE	321	18.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 64 % · humidity 79 %
Vouharte	16	232 km N	300	10.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 81 % · humidity 50 %
Ambérac	16	236 km N	315	18	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 70 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Cyr-de-Valorges	42	456 km NE	304	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 59 % · humidity 86 %
Chambors	60	637 km N	300	17.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 73 % · humidity 36 %
Bourdons-sur-Rognon	52	672 km NE	293	19.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 22 % · humidity 43 %

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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 Lamothe'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
Gousse	40	20 km W	275	24	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Comigne	11	270 km E	328	16.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Nuzéjouls	46	182 km NE	352	29.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Monbalen	47	126 km NE	451	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Geours-d'Auribat	40	15 km W	409	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Vendine	31	196 km E	269	17.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

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